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December 6, 2012

VUMC, Maury Regional land quality, performance awards

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is among nine recipients of the 2012 Achievement Award from the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE).

December 6, 2012

Photo: Exporing autism therapies

Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses emerging therapeutics for autism spectrum disorders during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

December 6, 2012

Room’s lead-lined walls protect patients, caregivers

Ten-year-old Madison Monday holds a small stuffed brown bear tightly under her arm as she receives an innovative therapy for neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops from nerve tissue.

December 6, 2012

Research becomes personal for Delpire

Eric Delpire, Ph.D., professor of Anesthesiology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and director of the Anesthesiology Basic Science Research Division, has spent the past 15 years developing genetically altered mice for use in scientific research, and he now knows the value of his research in a very personal way.

December 6, 2012

Award honors strong bonds between VU, Nashville CARES

Vanderbilt University has been named to receive the Nashville CARES Corporate Partner Award.

December 6, 2012

Malin helps craft de-identification guidelines

A great deal of biomedical and health services research at some point involves record de-identification, whether it’s prior to the sharing of study data or, in the case of large patient databases, prior to the initial extraction of study data.