Jacob Hughey Archive — Page 1 of 1

Two laboratory researchers in white coats stand together in a clinical laboratory filled with computer monitors and testing equipment.
December 3, 2020

Team tracks sources of false positives in urine drug screens

False positives on urine drug screens are common and are frequently due to cross-reactivity of these tests to medications. Last year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers Jacob Hughey, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Jennifer Colby, PhD, at that time assistant professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, devised, tested and published a method to systematically identify medications that interfere with screenings for drugs of abuse.

By Paul Govern
Several brightly colored traditional analog alarm clocks, including red, brown, yellow, and pink clocks, arranged against a white background.
March 29, 2018

Study finds broken circadian clock in human tumors

Human tumors appear to have a broken circadian clock, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report in the journal PeerJ.

By Paul Govern
collection of vintage pocket watches
March 2, 2017

Study reveals circadian time in a blood sample

A researcher at Vanderbilt has identified a set of 15 genes that together exhibit a 24-hour gene expression pattern in human blood, constituting a circadian clock biomarker.

By Paul Govern