Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that beneficial bacteria in the small intestines produce a compound that protects against obesity.

Twelve current investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University are on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers.

Nine current faculty members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have made this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited most frequently by other researchers.

Catherine Shelton has been selected as the 2022 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.

Mariana Byndloss, DVM, PhD, and William Wan, PhD, have been named 2022 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences and Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, was selected to join the 2022 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. 

The invading pathogen Salmonella, a common cause of food poisoning, can change its metabolism to overcome host resistance to its colonization.

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