Division of Infectious Diseases
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December 4, 2023
Report offers a way to overcome the severe lack of HIV providers
In a new report, members of the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center, which is coordinated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, offers an innovative approach to increasing the HIV workforce: train all manner of health professionals to care for people with HIV. -
November 16, 2023
Nasty microbe H. pylori has Achilles’ heel
Vanderbilt researchers found that an H. pylori enzyme is essential for colonization of the stomach, suggesting it as a promising therapeutic target for H. pylori infection. -
October 26, 2023
Karen Bloch honored for clinical excellence by Infectious Diseases Society of America
Vanderbilt's Karen Bloch, MD, MPH, is one of two winners of the 2023 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America. -
October 25, 2023
Immune system’s role in metabolic disease detailed in tissue atlas
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have published the largest known single-site adipose tissue atlas — a comprehensive, detailed map of the cells, structures and molecules within a specific tissue or organ, designed to support open-ended study. -
September 19, 2023
$51 million NIH grant brings ELVIS to VUMC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health. -
June 14, 2023
NIH grant boosts international TB research consortium
A new grant will help support Vanderbilt's RePORT Brazil, one of an international consortium’s six regional tuberculosis research programs. -
May 24, 2023
VUMC app used by research participants around the world
MyCap is a secure, customizable mobile computing application (for smartphone or tablet) used to collect data from research participants on a remote basis. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where MyCap was created and launched in 2018, some 107 projects have used the app, and by 2021, research participants in 135 countries had installed the free app.