Elizabeth Phillips Archive — Page 3 of 3

July 9, 2015

VUMC lands major pharmacogenomics grant

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $12.8 million grant from the federal government to develop better ways to predict how patients will respond to the drugs they’re given.

Futuristic blue-toned genetic information interface displaying the headings “GENETIC VARIATIONS,” “HEREDITY,” and “GENETIC DIVERSITY,” with other text partially obscured.
March 14, 2013

Recruitments bolster personalized medicine initiative

VUMC’s personalized medicine effort is getting a major boost with the recruitment of two physician-scientists from Australia who will increase Vanderbilt’s strength in translational immunology, the translation of basic immunological discoveries into clinically useful tools.