Edward Sherwood

August 9, 2023

Ed Sherwood to receive 2023 FAER Mentoring Excellence in Research Award

Vanderbilt’s Ed Sherwood, MD, PhD, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Foundation of Anesthesiology Mentoring Excellence in Research Award.

By Erin Wides
May 23, 2023

Treating kidney injury before it happens

Pretreatment of an animal model with a novel compound called PHAD reduced kidney injury, suggesting it may be a good candidate for preventing kidney injury in surgical patients.

By Sarah E. Glass
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June 13, 2018

Novel infection fighter

A drug in use clinically to help make vaccines more effective may be a powerful new tool for fighting antibiotic-resistant infections.

By Meredith Jackson
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April 19, 2017

Predicting the infection response

Vanderbilt investigators are probing the response to a bacterial toxin as a clinical assessment of immune function.

By Sanjay Mishra
February 8, 2017

Pathology of septic shock

The signaling molecule IL-15 promotes septic shock, a life-threatening condition involving organ injury caused by infection.

By Leigh MacMillan
January 20, 2017

Improving vaccine formulations

The compound MPLA is an attractive vaccine component, designed to elicit a robust immune response.

By Sanjay Mishra
April 28, 2016

Sherwood named to AUA advisory board

Edward Sherwood, M.D., Ph.D., Corneilius Vanderbilt Professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Anesthesiology and professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, has been selected to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA).
By Paul Govern