Division of Clinical Pharmacology

April 19, 2018

Former FDA official explores big data’s impact on healthcare

“Big data” can help reverse the alarming decline in life expectancy in the United States — if universities and academic medical centers take the lead, former U.S. Food and Drug Administrator Robert Califf, MD, told a Vanderbilt audience last week.

By Bill Snyder
April 5, 2018

Nashville Biosciences created to leverage wealth of data

Officials with Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Nashville Biosciences, to harness the power of its extensive genomic and bioinformatics resources to advance drug and diagnostics discovery and development.

By Bill Snyder
L-r: Eric Johnson, Björn Knollmann, Dai Chung, Dan Roden, Russell Rothman, Susan Wente, Carrie Kitko, Dane Chetkovich, Rangaraj Ramanujam, Timothy Vogus, Berk Sensoy and Jeff Balser. (John Russell/Vanderbilt)
March 5, 2018

Nine new endowed chair recipients honored

Nine Vanderbilt University faculty members named to endowed chairs were honored during a celebration at the Student Life Center Feb. 28.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 25, 2018

Personalized drug prescribing program expands, upgrades

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has expanded and relaunched genetic testing to predict patient responses to drugs.

By Paul Govern
December 7, 2017

Vanderbilt researchers’ papers among those most cited

Eight current faculty members at Vanderbilt have made this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited most frequently by other researchers.

By Bill Snyder
November 13, 2017

Salt, inflammation and hypertension

Vanderbilt researchers have identified a pathway that links excess sodium, inflammation and hypertension.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 19, 2017

McGill University honors Roden’s research career

Dan Roden, M.D., Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), was named to receive the 2017 Medicine Alumni Global Lifetime Achievement Award by the Faculty of Medicine of his alma mater, McGill University.
By Doug Campbell
September 21, 2017

Grant supports Oates’ research on acetaminophen and stroke

John Oates, M.D., a pioneering clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has been awarded a one-year, $20,000 grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to support studies of the stroke-reducing potential of acetaminophen.
By Bill Snyder
August 9, 2017

Stress may switch on bone “mets”

New findings could explain the link between chronic stress and reduced survival in women diagnosed with breast cancer, and could lead to new strategies to improve treatment outcomes.
By Bill Snyder
May 11, 2017

EETs contribute to insulin sensitivity

Interventions that increase circulating levels of compounds called EETs may improve insulin sensitivity and treat hypertension.
By Leigh MacMillan
February 23, 2017

Researchers chart new informatics path in tracking disease risk

In a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Mosley, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues use genetic correlation to hitch together two unrelated sets of data, one from a longstanding epidemiological cohort and the other from electronic health records.
By Paul Govern
October 27, 2016

Iadecola set for Oates Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology

Costantino Iadecola, M.D., an expert in the molecular pathology of ischemic brain injury and neurodegeneration at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, will present the 10th annual Meredith S. and John A. Oates Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology on Nov. 3.
By Bill Snyder
July 7, 2016

VUMC chosen for leadership role in NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health to be a leader in a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a million or more people. The NIH will provide $71.6 million over five years to VUMC, making this the largest research grant the Medical Center has ever received from any source.
By Bill Snyder
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