Reporter Oct 11 2019

October 9, 2019

Wilson County community event celebrates hospital’s transition

The Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) Advisory Board recently hosted a community celebration dinner to commemorate the successful transition of the local hospital to Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 9, 2019

Watkins’ niece Garraway discusses research, family ties

UCLA’s Isla Garraway, MD, PhD, delivered Tuesday’s Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture.

By Kathy Whitney

October 8, 2019

New leadership appointments for Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

By Bill Snyder

October 7, 2019

Biomedical Science Advisory Board member Kaelin wins Nobel Prize

William Kaelin Jr., MD, a member of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Biomedical Science Advisory Board, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

By Bill Snyder

October 3, 2019

New test assists physicians with quicker treatment decisions for sepsis

Rapid blood culture diagnostics for patients with bacterial bloodstream infections delivered final results in 12 hours versus the two to three days required for conventional testing.

By Jessica Pasley

September 20, 2019

Guengerich, Sanders-Bush named ASPET fellows

Vanderbilt University’s F. Peter (Fred) Guengerich, PhD, and Elaine Sanders-Bush, PhD, are among 22 prominent scientists named this week to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).

By Bill Snyder