COVID-19

April 13, 2022

Additional COVID vaccine helps protect transplant patients

Additional booster doses of vaccine against COVID-19 are particularly important for those who are immunosuppressed, namely those who have had solid organ transplants, a new study shows.

By Nancy Humphrey
April 13, 2022

Volunteering for vaccine research a family affair

By Kristin Smart
April 7, 2022

Study explores parents’ reluctance to flu, COVID vaccines for children

Vanderbilt research found parents who are reluctant to vaccinate their children against the flu are more than five times as likely to decline the COVID-19 vaccine for their children.

By Jessica Pasley
VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
April 6, 2022

Major grant renewal to provide five more years of support for VICTR

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has competed successfully for a third renewal of its Clinical and Translational Science Award by the National Institutes of Health.

By Bill Snyder
March 31, 2022

Crowe receives national award for COVID antibody research

Vanderbilt’s James Crowe Jr., MD, and Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, of The Rockefeller University, have been jointly awarded the 2022 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine for “groundbreaking work” that enabled the use of human antibodies to treat COVID-19.

By Bill Snyder
March 30, 2022

Uncharted days of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthen the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program team.

“There’s something about having a band of brothers, where you’re all focused on the same thing, and your noses are all pointed in the same direction.”

By Jill Clendening
March 30, 2022

Team helps patients battle post-COVID cognitive issues

Jane Stories is one of many COVID-19 patients still plagued by debilitating symptoms that include achy muscles, anxiety, depression, panic attacks and cognitive impairment.
By Bill Snyder and Nancy Humphrey
March 24, 2022

Complex Airway Center team helps patient breathe easier

Vanderbilt Otolaryngology’s Complex Airway Center team helped patient Shirley Beal recover from a serious complication that arose after she was treated for COVID-19.
By Emily Stembridge
March 17, 2022

Study compares kidney injury risk for COVID, flu patients

A Vanderbilt study found that renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAASi) inhibitor drugs, which are commonly used to regulate high blood pressure, do not disproportionately increase the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with COVID-19 compared to patients hospitalized with influenza.
By Emily Stembridge
March 16, 2022

VUMC building access changes to take effect March 21

March 16, 2022

Teamwork returns man with severe post-COVID complications to his life

A multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt helped José Ontiveros cope with a long list of severe complications arising from his COVID-19i infection.
By Jill Clendening
March 14, 2022

Microbiome reflects COVID-19 severity

Characterization of the upper respiratory tract microbiome could help predict outcomes for COVID-19 infection, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.
By Elliot Jaffe 
March 10, 2022

Technique hastens COVID-19 antibody discovery

Optimization of a technique developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center enables rapid and efficient identification of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19.
By Bill Snyder