Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Archive — Page 3 of 7

Matthew Semler, MD, MSc, and Cheryl Gatto, PhD, will lead the new Center for Learning Healthcare.
January 26, 2023

VUMC establishes novel Center for Learning Healthcare

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has established a first-of-its-kind Center for Learning Healthcare that will bring together clinicians, health system operations leaders and researchers to generate evidence in the course of health care delivery to continuously improve the quality, value and safety of health care offered to patients.

By Nancy Humphrey
Gordon Bernard, MD, is stepping down from his institutional leadership roles next summer to focus on his research interests.
December 16, 2022

VUMC Announces VICTR Leadership Transition

By Bill Snyder
The clinical trial group includes, from left, Gordon Bernard, MD, Katherine Cahill, MD, Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD, Pingsheng Wu, PhD, and R. Stokes Peebles, MD.
November 10, 2022

Clinical trial at VUMC tests novel treatment for asthma

VUMC has begun enrolling patients with asthma in a clinical trial of a novel treatment: a medication approved to treat diabetes and obesity.

By Leigh MacMillan
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October 6, 2022

VUMC to test whether Alzheimer’s drug can ease lupus symptoms

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is partnering with Evergreen Therapeutics Inc. to test whether an Alzheimer’s drug, memantine, can improve cognitive symptoms associated with systemic lupus.

By Bill Snyder
The REDCapCon in Boston drew 377 registrants from 263 institutions spanning 42 states and 22 countries on six continents.
September 29, 2022

Conference highlights REDCap’s global reach

REDCap administrators from around the world recently attended the 14th edition of REDCapCon in Boston, hosted this year by Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University’s center for clinical and translational science.

By Paul Govern
September 22, 2022

Self named co-principal investigator of Vanderbilt’s Clinical and Translational Science Award

Wesley Self, MD, MPH, a physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named co-principal investigator (co-PI) of Vanderbilt’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).  

By Bill Snyder