pathology microbiology and immunology

Hypoxia (lack of enough oxygen) is bad for the body as a whole, but in the neighborhood where infection-fighting antibodies arise, may be important for keeping proper order.

High school students performing advanced research at Vanderbilt have the opportunity to share their findings with the scientific community through a journal of their own.

Sepsis, an exaggerated and overwhelming inflammatory response to infection, is a major worldwide killer of babies in the first four weeks of life (neonatal period).

Jeff Davidson, Ph.D., professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was honored last month at the joint 27th annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society meeting in Atlanta for “outstanding lifetime achievement in wound healing.”

A newly discovered mechanism that helps cancer cells avoid destruction by immune system cells may improve immunotherapies.

A genetic mutation that promotes cancer development blocks the normal sorting of a protein called “Argonaute 2.”

Vanderbilt researchers show that a certain factor negatively impacts the first-line responder cells in the lungs, providing one explanation for why patients with asthma are at greater risk for invasive bacterial disease.