Research

February 5, 2015

VUMC lands grant to join CDC autism surveillance network

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $1.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to join the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 5, 2015

Study to explore myeloma treatment’s impact on heart

Vanderbilt is embarking on an observational study to define and understand how a promising treatment for multiple myeloma affects the heart.

By Kathy Whitney
February 5, 2015

Grant bolsters Kirschner’s prostate cancer research

Austin Kirschner, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Radiation Oncology and Cancer Biology, has received the Urology Care Foundation Research Scholars Award for the study of advanced prostate cancer.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 5, 2015

Mobile ‘Makerspace’ provides patients tools to create, inspire

At first glance, the mobile Makerspace at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt looks like an ordinary computer cart with a printer and storage bins.

By Christina Echegaray
yawning woman
February 2, 2015

New ‘reset’ button discovered for circadian clock

The discovery of a new “reset” button for the brain’s master biological clock could eventually lead to new treatments for seasonal affective disorder, reduce the adverse health effects of working the night shift, and possibly even treat jet lag.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 29, 2015

Core facilities key driver of VUMC research gains

During the past five years, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has become a leader in “personalized medicine,” the use of genomic information to individualize patient care.

By Bill Snyder
January 29, 2015

Consent process for BioVU participation updated

As of last week, Vanderbilt has updated the process used to facilitate patient participation in BioVU, the Medical Center’s DNA repository.
By Paul Govern
January 29, 2015

New therapy options enhance prostate cancer treatment

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) patient William Ostman smiled while gazing into a camera lens and declared, “I am a prostate cancer survivor.”
By VUMC News and Communications
January 29, 2015

VUSN study tracking yoga therapy for cancer patients

Cancer is bad enough. But cancer patients who receive surgery, radiation and chemotherapy may suffer from side effects that run from irritating to crippling — problems that are postural, musculoskeletal and respiratory, along with lowered self-esteem.
By Matt Batcheldor
January 29, 2015

Grant bolsters pancreatic cancer drug discovery efforts

The Lustgarten Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million Research Investigator Grant to Stephen Fesik, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Chemistry, for research designed to discover new drugs for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 29, 2015

Altered dopamine signaling may offer a clue to autism

Newly discovered genetic variations linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) disrupt the function of the dopamine transporter, suggesting that altered dopamine signaling contributes to this common developmental condition, according to a Vanderbilt University-led research team.
By Bill Snyder
January 28, 2015

New clue to a devastating disease

New findings suggest a previously unrecognized role for the Sox10 transcription factor in Hirschsprung’s disease, and may lead to improved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for this disease.
By Bill Snyder
January 26, 2015

Brain study sheds light on how children with autism process social play

By VUMC News and Communications
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