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The extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer team includes, from left, Jeffrey Franklin, PhD, Yu Shyr, PhD, Qi Liu, PhD, Alissa Weaver, MD, PhD, James Higginbotham, PhD, and James Patton, PhD. Not pictured: Robert Coffey, MD, Kasey Vickers, PhD, and John Karijolich, PhD. (photo taken before social distancing)
April 9, 2020

Research team awarded $9 million to study extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer

The NCI program project grant is supporting multiple projects that aim to define fundamental biological principles about extracellular RNA signaling and the development and aggressiveness of colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States.

By Leigh MacMillan
April 8, 2020

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and AstraZeneca join forces to identify potential COVID-19 treatments

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have joined forces to identify candidates for antibody-based treatments that could protect people exposed to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19.

By Bill Snyder
April 2, 2020

Study aims to shield health workers from COVID-19 infection

VUMC is playing a key role in a national effort to establish a registry of U.S. health care workers and test whether the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) will protect them, their patients and their families from COVID-19.

By Bill Snyder
April 2, 2020

Information technology aids VUMC’s COVID-19 response

By Paul Govern
April 2, 2020

VUMC teams follow up with COVID-19 patients at home

Several components of Vanderbilt University Medical Center have come together to provide coordinated follow-up care for patients isolated at home with COVID-19.

By Paul Govern
Social distancing and spending more time at home can make it tempting to stop by the refrigerator more often. Making healthy choices can help.
April 1, 2020

Keeping good nutrition habits crucial while social distancing

Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic could keep many people at home for weeks with fewer trips to the grocery, so it’s natural to want to eat what’s in your freezer or pantry.

By Nancy Humphrey
April 1, 2020

VU engineers, VUMC doctors team for open-source ventilator design

As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 1, 2020

Study to explore TBI’s impact on language processing

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University have been awarded more than $3.8 million to study the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on one’s ability to process language in everyday settings.
By Kelsey Herbers
March 25, 2020

School of Medicine students take part in virtual Match Day

Match Day — and Vanderbilt’s longstanding tradition of gathering fourth-year medical students, their families, friends and faculty together to celebrate — was revamped to accommodate the social distancing measures that have been put in place to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By Kathy Whitney
March 18, 2020

Suddenly having to work from home can create new challenges

For those who work in an office surrounded by co-workers, working from home can sound like a dream come true — there’s no frustrating commute and you can sit quietly at your own kitchen table or home office, away from the distractions of daily office work life. But if it’s not your choice, it can be a different story.
By Nancy Humphrey
March 18, 2020

Artist hopes mural brightens days at Children’s Hospital

At Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, bunnies in space helmets swirl around the rings of Saturn. A bunny speeds by the sun in a spaceship. Another rides across the sky in a hot air balloon.
By Christina Echegaray
March 11, 2020

‘The Call’ will let Children’s Hospital patients talk to astronauts on space station

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is about to be out of this world. The Children’s Hospital school program has been chosen as one of only nine schools across the country to talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station as it passes over Tennessee.
By Christina Echegaray
March 11, 2020

VUMC rolls out new standard attire program for patient service specialists

Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently launched a new standard attire program for patient service specialists (PSS), the staff who work in outpatient check-in and checkout areas.
By Jill Clendening
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