Vanderbilt's Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI, is the inaugural recipient of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Hepatology Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

An analysis of genomic data from nearly 250,000 participants in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has identified more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variations, nearly 4 million of which have potential health consequences.

Timothy Blackwell, MD, director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, is leaving Vanderbilt University Medical Center to chair the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, and Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, were honored for their service to translational scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center during the Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a federal grant to establish a first-of-its-kind training program in patient-oriented and health systems research focused on acute heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders in the hospital setting.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified Rac1, a molecular switch that regulates the actin cytoskeleton of epithelial cells in the collecting ducts, as a driver of post-obstructive kidney repair.

The study findings, published in the journal Diabetes Care, suggest that pancreas imaging can have a benefit in tracking disease development and recruitment for preventive and therapeutic trials.