Reporter Sept 28 2018

October 1, 2018

Probing the genetics of fibroids

A new study identified multiple genetic locations associated with the size and number of uterine fibroids — common non-cancerous uterine tumors.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 1, 2018

Cytokine-cognition connection

Targeting the immune system may provide a new avenue for therapeutic intervention in psychiatric diseases characterized by motivational and cognitive deficits.

By Laura Daniel
September 27, 2018

Vanderbilt implants Tennessee’s first artificial heart

By Craig Boerner
September 27, 2018

Stretch, inflammation and hypertension

New research sheds light on how changes in blood vessel forces enhance immune cell activation and promote hypertension.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 27, 2018

Fat tissue’s “iron sink”

Alyssa Hasty and colleagues demonstrated that immune cells called macrophages act in fat tissue to store iron and prevent iron toxicity.

By Sanjay Mishra
September 27, 2018

Cancer Moonshot award to help map tumor progression

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States.

By Tom Wilemon
September 27, 2018

Flulapalooza 2018

School of Medicine student Jennifer Marvin was among the 12,627 people who received flu shots at Wednesday’s Flulapalooza mass vaccination event.
By VUMC News and Communications
September 27, 2018

VUMC’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network site gains NIH renewal

By Nancy Humphrey
September 27, 2018

Clinic helps adults clarify true status of penicillin allergy

By Bill Snyder
September 27, 2018

Johnson honored by Nashville Technology Council

By Paul Govern
September 27, 2018

Team’s potential lung cancer therapy lands award from SBIR

A potential cancer drug aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of ionizing radiation in lung cancer patients is a step closer to development with funding support from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
By Tom Wilemon
September 27, 2018

Hard hat tour

From left, Kathryn Carell Brown, Julie Carell Stadler and Edie Carell Johnson, daughters of the late Monroe Carell Jr. and Ann Scott Carell, join John W. Brock III, MD, to view the progress of the four-floor expansion of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
By VUMC News and Communications
September 27, 2018

NHLBI director Gibbons set to deliver Oct. 9 Watkins Lecture

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine will present its 17th annual Levi Watkins Jr., MD, Lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 9, in 208 Light Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the school’s Office for Diversity Affairs.
By VUMC News and Communications