Vanderbilt Smell and Taste Center

The team studying smell and taste loss associated with COVID-19 includes, from left, Rakesh Chandra, MD, Justin Turner, MD, Timothy Trone, MD, and Nikita Chapurin, MD, MHS.
September 23, 2021

Study tracks smell, taste loss associated with COVID

Vanderbilt researchers are studying ways to better evaluate and predict who is at risk of persistent smell and taste loss after COVID-19 infection.

By Emily Stembridge
May 21, 2020

Five things to know about smell and taste loss in COVID-19

While fever, cough and shortness of breath have characterized the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its list of common symptoms in late April to include a new loss of smell or taste.

By Kelsey Herbers
February 23, 2017

Undiagnosed taste, smell issues focus of new clinic

People who have problems with their sense of smell or taste and don’t know the cause have a new treatment option at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center.

By Matt Batcheldor