Reporter Feb 19 2016

February 24, 2016

Liver balancing act

Vanderbilt researchers have defined a mechanism that limits liver cell proliferation after injury in order to preserve critical metabolic functions.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 23, 2016

Hypertension hiatus

New findings offer a potential strategy for preventing heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension.

By Bill Snyder
February 19, 2016

Face recognition and social anxiety

An inability to recognize faces may be an important mechanism underlying social inhibition and may contribute to, or maintain, social anxiety.

By Sanjay Mishra
February 18, 2016

Combining treatments for melanoma

Combining therapies for melanoma that induce cell senescence and that activate the immune response may improve outcomes for patients.

By Leigh MacMillan
February 18, 2016

Compassion key to VUMC’s strategic mission: Balser

“Service through compassion” was the theme of the Winter 2016 Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).

By Paul Govern
February 18, 2016

Pediatrics awarded physician-scientist training support

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Vanderbilt’s Department of Pediatrics a K12 training grant to support early career faculty to become physician-scientists, the first time the department has received such an award.

By Matt Batcheldor
February 18, 2016

VEI honored by American Academy of Ophthalmology

The Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) was recently awarded the Commitment to Advocacy Award during the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) annual meeting.
By Jessica Pasley
February 18, 2016

Study explores less invasive way to monitor colorectal cancer

Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have published research regarding an important feature of colorectal cancer (CRC) that could eventually lead to the development of non-invasive means of monitoring cancer progression. After lung cancer, CRC is the second-most lethal cancer in the United States.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 18, 2016

Exploring anesthesiology

Noted anesthesiologist, neuroscientist and statistician Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D., of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, discussed the mysteries of anesthesia during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 18, 2016

Nashville Health Care Council selects VUMC’s Chang, Patel

The Nashville Health Care Council is naming Vanderbilt’s Sam Chang, M.D., MBA, professor of Urologic Surgery and Oncology, and Neal Patel, M.D., professor of Clinical Pediatrics, to its 2016 Council Fellows class, selected by the Council Fellows Advisory Committee led by former U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D.
By Craig Boerner
February 18, 2016

Bioinformatics expert Omenn to speak Feb. 25

Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University of Michigan Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 25.
By Bill Snyder
February 18, 2016

VUMC Notification System test to take place Monday, Feb. 22

Vanderbilt will conduct a test of the VUMC Notification System at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 22.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 18, 2016

Employees urged to keep contact information current in C2HR

It’s important to keep your information in C2HR up to date so you don’t miss out on news from Human Resources and its benefits providers.
By VUMC News and Communications