New research sheds light on how changes in blood vessel forces enhance immune cell activation and promote hypertension.

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States.

With the help of a $1.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a specialized research training program called Vanderbilt Scholars in HIV and Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Research, or V-SCHoLARs.

The research suggests that metformin should be further studied clinically for the prevention of liver cancer.

The new mapping approach, called suitability score mapping, should improve public health assessments and interventions for geographic-specific infections.

The first Flexner Discovery Lecture of the academic year featured presentations by two Vanderbilt faculty members.