Reporter Oct 9 2020 Archive — Page 1 of 1
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October 8, 2020
Program helps researchers deal with personal challenges
An innovative program to support Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty facing substantial caregiving challenges in their personal lives, the Partnership in Actively Retaining Talented Early-career Researchers, or Doris Duke PARTNERS, will receive a $528,000, three-year grant renewal from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. -
October 8, 2020
COVID patient’s heart-lung transplant is world’s first
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has performed the world’s first dual heart-lung transplant of a COVID-19 patient. -
October 7, 2020
Vanderbilt Prize winner Doudna awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, PhD, recipient of the 2020 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. -
October 6, 2020
Bick receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, a new faculty member in the Division of Genetic Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a 2020 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award. -
October 5, 2020
Treating appendicitis with antibiotics instead of surgery may be good option for some, but not all, patients
Antibiotics instead of surgery may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from a study reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine. -
October 5, 2020
Nominations sought for 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Nominations for the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science are now being accepted. The nomination deadline is Dec. 11.