Department of Pediatrics Archive — Page 51 of 58

Illustration of several spherical virus particles with brown textured surfaces and numerous translucent yellow spike-like projections, shown against a dark reddish-brown background.
February 24, 2015

Contributors to coronavirus ‘fitness’

Understanding the role that host membrane modification plays in coronavirus replication is essential for developing novel approaches to block the viruses that cause SARS and MERS.

February 5, 2015

VUMC lands grant to join CDC autism surveillance network

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $1.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to join the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.

Five adults pose in a hospital hallway: Leslie and John Hooper in the center, flanked by three neonatology fellows.
February 5, 2015

Couple’s gift bolsters neonatology training, research

Dupree Hatch, M.D., shrugs off the sleep deprivation from a night taking care of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and launches into a discussion of his efforts to describe — and reduce — adverse events associated with intubation in the NICU.

Portrait of an older man wearing glasses and a white lab coat in a laboratory.
January 8, 2015

Cotton recalled as devoted teacher, mentor, scientist

Robert B. Cotton Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University and former longtime director of the Division of Neonatology, died Friday, Jan. 2. He was 74.

Three researchers pose in a laboratory, with one seated in front and two standing behind; shelves of scientific equipment and supplies fill the background.
January 8, 2015

Integrin discovery may lead to better lung treatments

Vanderbilt University researchers have made an important advance in understanding lung development, which one day could lead to improvements in treating lung disease in premature infants and adults.

Smiling man in a blue sweater and red-striped tie standing in a bright indoor setting.
December 4, 2014

Physician-scientist is dream job for Vanderbilt’s Cassat

Jim Cassat, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatric infectious disease specialist who joined the Vanderbilt faculty this summer, loves taking care of children with bone infections and doing research to understand the host-pathogen interactions during these invasive infections.