VUMC Office of Research

March 4, 2024

Dame Frances Ashcroft to deliver March 21 Vanderbilt Prize Lecture

Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, recipient of the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, will deliver her Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in 208 Light Hall.

By Bill Snyder
October 27, 2022

Terker selected as VUMC Discovery Scholar in Health and Medicine

By Bill Snyder
VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
August 25, 2022

New high-tech biobank safeguards critical specimens

By Bill Snyder
May 10, 2022

Nominations sought for the 2022 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

Nominations for the 2022 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are invited through May 27.

By VUMC News and Communications
April 7, 2022

Vanderbilt Prize winner Regev to deliver April 14 Discovery Lecture

Aviv Regev, PhD, recipient of the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, will deliver her Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture at 4 p.m. next Thursday, April 14, in 208 Light Hall.

By Bill Snyder
Lab manager Rachel Nargi prepares a B-cell culture during the recent “sprint” to develop an antibody-based treatment for Zika virus infection.
September 16, 2020

Nominations sought for Research Staff Awards

Nominations are being accepted for the 2020 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Research Staff Awards.

By Bill Snyder
May 21, 2020

VUMC research ramps up in COVID-19 transition

As Nashville cautiously begins to emerge from its two-month-long COVID-19 Safer at Home response, so too are the labs and facilities at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Bill Snyder
May 19, 2020

VUMC Research Enterprise begins ramping up

As Nashville cautiously begins to emerge from its two-month-long COVID-19 Safer at Home response, so too are the labs and facilities at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Bill Snyder
April 15, 2019

Harvard’s Christine Seidman to receive 2019 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Christine Seidman, MD, whose lab has identified the genetic causes of several human heart diseases including cardiomyopathy (potentially fatal enlargement of the heart) is the recipient of the 2019 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced today.
By Bill Snyder
March 15, 2019

Inaugural SCRIPS symposium set for March 21

The inaugural SCRIPS symposium — Supporting Careers in Research for Interventional Physicians and Surgeons — will be held from 1-4 p.m. March 21 in 202 Light Hall.
By Bill Snyder
July 3, 2018

Nominations for Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar now open for female graduate students in biomedical sciences

Nominations for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are now open. The deadline is Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, at 5 p.m.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 26, 2017

New management software bolsters research cores

This month the Office of Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) began transitioning VUMC research cores, facilities and shared resources (known collectively as “cores”) to a new core management application that officials said will streamline ordering and billing for core services.
By Bill Snyder