Reporter Oct 23 2015

October 22, 2015

VUMC and Incyte Corp. form new scientific alliance

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have joined forces with scientists at Incyte Corp. to explore new therapies for the treatment of various types of cancer, as well as other diseases. The company has agreed to help fund basic and translational science research by VUMC investigators.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

Chazin honored with international biophysics award

Walter Chazin, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology, is a recipient of a 2016 Fellow of the Biophysical Society award.

By Bill Snyder
images from a brain scan
October 22, 2015

Guillamondegui: One standard needed to track concussions

Data in sports concussion studies will continue to be disputed as long as the injuries are diagnosed by differing standards instead of universal guidelines, a Vanderbilt investigator concludes in a recent review.

By Tom Wilemon
October 22, 2015

Elam steps down as Osher Center medical director

Roy Elam, M.D., will step down as medical director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University following a search for a new director.

By Tom Wilemon
October 22, 2015

VU-invented wireless ECG system receives FDA approval

A wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) system invented at Vanderbilt University and marketed by a Nashville company, InvisionHeart, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

By VUMC News and Communications
blood draw
October 22, 2015

Revised regulations proposed for human subject research

Eighteen departments and agencies of the federal government have joined to propose revised regulations for scientific research involving human subjects.

By Paul Govern
October 22, 2015

Cancer Survivorship Celebration set for Nov. 1

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, in partnership with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is hosting the 2015 Cancer Survivorship Celebration Sunday, Nov. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

Myers delivers annual lecture inspired by Watkins’ legacy

Woodrow Myers, M.D., MBA, CEO of Corizon Health, delivered the 14th annual Levi Watkins Jr. M.D. Lecture.
By Jessica Pasley
October 22, 2015

Eskind Library receives Southern consortium award

Eskind Biomedical Library has won the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries Distinguished Library Award.
By Paul Govern
October 22, 2015

Vanderbilt’s MPH program adds health policy track

Vanderbilt’s Master of Public Health program has added a health policy track, with four new MPH students (class of 2017) joining the track in this initial semester.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

CMA pledges $3 million to boost Children’s expansion

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is receiving significant philanthropic support through a $3 million gift from the Country Music Association (CMA), Vanderbilt University Medical Center leaders, event host Kix Brooks and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum announced this week.
By John Howser
October 22, 2015

Study sheds light on side effects of COX-2 drugs

A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are closer to understanding why COX-2 inhibitors — drugs that relieve arthritis pain and inflammation without the gastrointestinal side effects of other painkillers — cause heart problems in some patients. Now
By Bill Snyder
October 22, 2015

Neimat: Emotional disturbance is an overlooked symptom of Parkinson’s

Despite benefiting from dramatic improvements in movement after deep brain stimulation surgery, patients with Parkinson’s disease can be inadequately served when physicians and researchers focus only on its motor manifestations, says a Vanderbilt neurosurgeon.
By Tom Wilemon