Department of Medicine Archive — Page 92 of 127

Two women stand in a laboratory beside shelves of labeled storage containers and equipment. The woman on the left wears a black blazer over a teal top; the woman on the right wears a color-blocked black, white, and pink dress.
October 11, 2018

Novel genetic study sheds new light on risk of heart attack

Loss of a protein that regulates mitochondrial function can greatly increase the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack), Vanderbilt scientists reported Oct. 3 in the journal eLife.

By Bill Snyder
Exterior of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Frances Williams Preston Building, a brick-and-glass research building with a covered entrance and elevated pedestrian bridge.
October 11, 2018

Cancer Center investigators awarded Komen grants

Four Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have received financial support from Susan G. Komen for breast cancer research.

By Tom Wilemon
Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD, stands with his arms crossed in a burgundy shirt inside a bright building near a glass atrium.
October 11, 2018

Team’s study reveals hidden lives of medical biomarkers

What do medical biomarkers do on evenings and weekends, when they might be considered off the clock?

By Paul Govern
October 4, 2018

New center formed to treat, study ICU delirium, dementia

Millions of patients in intensive care units each year develop delirium during their hospitalization and often leave the hospital with cognitive deficits similar to those suffering from traumatic brain injury or mild Alzheimer’s disease.

By Nancy Humphrey
Manual blood pressure monitor with a blue cuff, round pressure gauge, black inflation bulb, and attached stethoscope on a white background.
September 27, 2018

Stretch, inflammation and hypertension

New research sheds light on how changes in blood vessel forces enhance immune cell activation and promote hypertension.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Three researchers pose in a laboratory beside shelves of equipment and racks of red-capped sample tubes; two wear white lab coats and one wears a blue blouse.
September 27, 2018

Cancer Moonshot award to help map tumor progression

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States.

By Tom Wilemon