Reporter June 24 2022 Archive
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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 23, 2022
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital becomes county’s first trauma center
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) has received approval as a state-verified provisional Level III Trauma Center, making it the first and only hospital able to provide this higher level of care in Wilson County. -
June 22, 2022
Gannon selected for American Diabetes Association Award
Maureen Gannon, PhD, professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Cell and Developmental Biology, is the recipient of the 2022 Lois Jovanovic Transformative Woman in Diabetes Award presented by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). -
June 22, 2022
Vanderbilt Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System recognized
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June 22, 2022
COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months through 4 years available
Children ages 6 months through age 4 years are now eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will offer vaccines for this age group on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 22, 23 and 24. Appointments are required and available between 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Appointments are required and available between 8 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. -
June 21, 2022
Aliyu named director of Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Renowned physician-epidemiologist Muktar Aliyu, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, who is the associate director for Research with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), has been named the new director of the institute, beginning July 1. -
June 21, 2022
Today Show: Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center makes national push for clinical study enrollment. You can help.
The Today Show’s Maria Shriver spotlighted a landmark, years-long study into the connection between heart health and Alzheimer’s disease, and the urgency to boost study enrollment—particularly among people of color who are disproportionally impacted yet historically underrepresented in research.