Ken Lau Archive — Page 1 of 2

Portrait of Monica Brown smiling and wearing a white Vanderbilt University School of Medicine coat.
October 23, 2026

Monica Brown selected as 2026 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

She will receive a $1,000 cash prize and will be mentored by the recipient of the 2026 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, Eva Nogales, PhD, an internationally known structural biologist and pioneer in molecular imaging.

Stanley Cohen, PhD, gestures while speaking to a seated audience in front of a whiteboard.
November 21, 2024

Ken Lau and Eunyoung Choi named 2024 Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund awardees

3D medical illustration showing a colonoscope, a long flexible tube, inserted through the rectum and threaded through the colon.
October 2, 2024

Grant funds quest to expand immunotherapy efficacy for colorectal cancer  

The study seeks to understand the mechanisms of colorectal cancer and builds on recent Vanderbilt research.

Ken Lau, PhD, left, and Bob Coffey, MD, have made several important discoveries about colorectal cancer that are aiding the search for new, more effective therapies. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
December 11, 2023

Colorectal cancer ‘cartography’ reveals an avenue to improved immunotherapy

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered why most colorectal tumors escape detection and destruction by the body’s immune system.

July 28, 2022

C. difficile may contribute to colorectal cancer: study

A Vanderbilt study found that the bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) may be a previously unrecognized contributor to colorectal cancer.

Close-up 3D rendering of densely packed pink, rounded finger-like biological structures, with larger forms in the foreground and smaller ones receding into the background.
July 12, 2022

Probing the tumor microenvironment

Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell sequencing, imaging, and computational approaches to characterize the colonic tumor microenvironment, providing important insights to the components that play roles in colorectal tumor pathogenesis.