Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Archive — Page 12 of 13

Portrait of a gray-haired man wearing a striped dress shirt and tan tie, seated in a laboratory.
August 13, 2015

Macara lands award to explore cancer cell behavior

Vanderbilt’s Ian Macara, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — nearly $6.6 million over seven years — to support the “unusual potential” of his research, which seeks to understand and predict cancer cell “behavior.”

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of a gray-haired man wearing a striped dress shirt and tan tie, seated in a laboratory.
July 30, 2015

Worldwide Cancer Research lauds Macara’s contributions

Ian Macara, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, recently returned from Scotland, where he received this year’s Colin Thomson Memorial Medal for his contributions to cancer research.

By Vanderbilt Health News
March 26, 2015

‘Docking stations’ on chromosomes new anti-cancer target

Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a cleft in a chromosome-binding protein that may hold the key to stopping most cancers in their tracks.

By Bill Snyder
Blue spherical particles of varying sizes floating against a mottled blue background.
July 17, 2014

Breast tissue growth protein may promote cancer: study

A protein essential for growth of normal breast tissue also may play a role in breast cancer, Vanderbilt University researchers have found.

By Bill Snyder
Microscopic grayscale view of densely packed, finger-like projections forming a brush border across cultured epithelial cells.
April 17, 2014

Nutrient-absorbing surface’s assembly revealed: study

Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered how intestinal cells build the “brush border” — a specialized surface structure that is critical for absorbing nutrients and defending against pathogens.

By Leigh MacMillan
February 13, 2014

Sandberg, Weaver named to AAMC faculty council

By Jill Clendening