Research Blog

Anita at work in her lab
August 22, 2014

Mahadevan-Jansen elected chair of Gordon Research Conference

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Lasers in Medicine and Biology.

By VUMC News and Communications
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (left) and Faculty Senate Chair Paul Lim (right) present the 2014 Earl Sutherland Prize to Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)
August 22, 2014

Landers, Fuchs win awards at Fall Faculty Assembly

An international expert on slavery and emancipation during the 18th and 19th centuries was awarded the prestigious Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research during Vanderbilt University’s Fall Faculty Assembly.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 21, 2014

Research Staff Awards nominations sought

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accepting nominations for the 2014 Research Staff Awards in the following categories:

By VUMC News and Communications
August 7, 2014

Conn lands Javits Neuroscience Investigator award

Vanderbilt University’s P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., has won a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for discoveries that could lead to new treatments for anxiety, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.

By Bill Snyder
microscope
July 31, 2014

Doris Duke awards enhance clinical research training

Vanderbilt University’s Cyndya Shibao, M.D., MSCI, has received a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

By Bill Snyder
Mozambique on map
July 31, 2014

Grant bolsters biomedical ethics efforts in Mozambique

Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen research ethics capacity in Mozambique.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 31, 2014

VICC investigators land Komen breast cancer research grants

Two Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have received multi-year breast cancer research grants from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 24, 2014

Team effort boosts study of tachycardia syndrome

Vanderbilt University’s Satish Raj, M.D., MSCI, was very busy — and very visible — at the Dysautonomia International Conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.
By Bill Snyder
July 17, 2014

Lovly’s research bolstered by lung cancer foundation

The LUNGevity Foundation has awarded a 2014 Career Development Award for Translational Research to Christine Lovly, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 17, 2014

VICC’s Abramson lands breast cancer clinical research award

Vandana Abramson, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and a breast cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has received the Advanced Clinical Research Award in Breast Cancer from the Conquer Cancer Foundation (CCF).
By VUMC News and Communications
June 26, 2014

Rousseau appointed to NIH study group

Vanderbilt researcher Bernard Rousseau, Ph.D., is being appointed to the Motor Function, Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, for the term beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 2020.
By Craig Boerner
June 26, 2014

Aliyu receives alumnus award from UAB

Muktar Aliyu, M.D., MPH, Dr.P.H., associate director for Research at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, is the recipient of the 2014 Alumnus Award for Scientific Excellence from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health.
By Denise Anthony
June 26, 2014

VUSM team seeks to hone in on health care ‘hot spots’

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is fielding one of 10 teams of students selected to participate in a project aimed at identifying the most frequent users of health care.
By Jessica Pasley
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