Vanderbilt Vaccine Center

June 28, 2024

Antibody trial launched to address enterovirus threat

Enterovirus D68 has caused an increasing number of infections during the past decade and is associated with acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like condition that mostly affects children and causes sudden weakness and paralysis.

By Bill Snyder
June 12, 2024

Scientists find antibodies that block parainfluenza virus infection

The antibodies may have clinical benefit as antiviral drugs to treat potentially life-threatening infections in elderly and immunosuppressed patients.

By Bill Snyder
May 31, 2024

Antibodies may aid effort to fight influenza B: study

The findings reported in the journal Immunity support the development of a monoclonal antibody for prevention and treatment of influenza B — and will help guide efforts to develop a universal influenza vaccine.

By Bill Snyder
January 16, 2024

Following the clues through time: Old mummies, old bones and old teeth lead to new insight into disease for Katherine Van Schaik

Radiology fellow moves from present-day patients to historical artifacts to understand health and illness

By Bill Snyder
Mark Denison, MD, and Xiaotao Lu, MS, are among those on a new list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
November 15, 2023

Twelve at Vanderbilt are among world’s highly cited researchers

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.

By Bill Snyder
October 30, 2023

Crowe, Osheroff honored by AAMC

Vanderbilt’s James E. Crowe, Jr, MD, and Neil Osheroff, PhD, are among 12 individuals honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges during its 2023 Awards Recognition Event.

By Bill Snyder
September 13, 2023

James Crowe’s antibody research lands American Society for Microbiology Award

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s James Crowe Jr., MD, has been named to receive the 2024 American Society for Microbiology Award for Applied and Biotechnological Research.
By Bill Snyder
August 4, 2023

Researchers discover antibody that neutralizes both RSV and hMPV

Vanderbilt and Stanford University researchers discovered a potent, cross-neutralizing human monoclonal antibody against the respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus.
By Anthony Czelusniak
June 22, 2023

VUMC, Oxford team develops ‘blueprint’ to block lethal virus

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Oxford have determined how a human monoclonal antibody isolated at Vanderbilt in 2021 can prevent infection by the potentially lethal Sin Nombre virus.
By Bill Snyder
March 30, 2023

Crowe, Harris, Young elected as new AIMBE fellows

Vanderbilt's James Crowe Jr., MD, Paul Harris, PhD, and Jamey Young, PhD, have been elected to the 2023 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli
March 23, 2023

Crowe’s research honored

Vanderbilt's James Crowe Jr., MD, was among those to receive 2023 Advocacy Awards from Research!America at the biomedical research advocacy organization’s annual awards program in Washington, D.C.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 6, 2023

VUMC in the news, Jan. 10, 2023

December 15, 2022

Year in Review 2022: Achievements, milestones abounded during the past year

The following is a roundup of the news that made headlines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2022.
By Doug Campbell
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