Department of Medicine
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July 24, 2024
Study links low-quality sleep with chronic disease
The research shows that by getting enough sleep and reducing variability around sleep onset and wake times, patients can reduce the incidence of chronic disease. -
July 23, 2024
Vanderbilt Transplant Center finishes fiscal year with record 809 solid organ transplants
Vanderbilt’s adult heart, lung, liver and kidney transplant programs individually had record fiscal years, with 150 heart transplants, 90 lung transplants, 180 liver transplants and 333 kidney transplants. In addition, adult transplant teams performed three heart/lung transplants and four kidney/pancreas transplants. -
July 23, 2024
VUMC joins $31 million project to speed new TB therapies
Sweeping data integration and clinical trial simulations are needed to help decide which targets to prioritize in researching new tuberculosis treatment regimens. -
July 19, 2024
Vanderbilt, Meharry graduate students among the 2024 HHMI Gilliam Fellows
They are the only two from Tennessee named this year for the program, which provides support for each student’s dissertation research for up to three years. -
July 18, 2024
Department of Medicine chair search committee appointed
The new Department of Medicine chair will succeed Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC, who stepped down from her role as the department’s leader in November 2023 to serve as director of the National Cancer Institute. -
July 18, 2024
Unhealthy sleep linked to diabetes across several populations
Persistently unhealthy sleep, either not enough or too much, is associated with a significantly increased risk of Type 2 diabetes in a racially and economically varied adult population, an international team of researchers has reported. -
July 11, 2024
Jennifer Gaddy receives grants from March of Dimes, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
She studies infection of the female reproductive tract in the context of pregnancy.