Department of Surgery Archive — Page 4 of 11
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July 12, 2022
Probing the tumor microenvironment
Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell sequencing, imaging, and computational approaches to characterize the colonic tumor microenvironment, providing important insights to the components that play roles in colorectal tumor pathogenesis. -
June 23, 2022
Study reveals how gastric cancer forms, suggests preventive treatment
Eunyoung Choi, PhD, assistant professor of Surgery, and colleagues identified for the first time that Trop2+/CD133+/CD166+ dysplastic stem cells are a key source of clonal evolution of dysplasia to multiple types of gastric cancer. -
June 16, 2022
Vanderbilt Women in Surgery
Vanderbilt Women in Surgery, a local chapter of the Association of Women Surgeons, met recently and welcomed guest speaker Sherry Wren, MD, vice chair of Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine, director of Global Surgery at the Center for Innovation and Global Health. -
June 2, 2022
VUMC’s Solórzano elected president-elect of AAES
Vanderbilt's Carmen Solórzano, MD, has been elected president-elect of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. -
June 2, 2022
Choi, Short receive AGA Research Foundation Awards
Two Vanderbilt researchers have received awards from the AGA Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Gastroenterological Association. -
May 19, 2022
Molecular ‘switch’ may illuminate stomach disorders
An international team that included researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has discovered a molecular switch that induces rapid proliferation of zymogen granule-secreting chief cells in the stomach to regenerate damaged tissue. -
March 17, 2022
ECMO fellowship program provides lifesaving training
Vanderbilt's extracorporeal life support fellowship gives new doctors two years of hands-on experience with a lifesaving critical care tool, one that has only become more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.