VUMC is launching a living liver donor transplant program, significantly increasing the number of available organs for life-saving transplants.

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center recently celebrated its 6,000th kidney transplant.

Two faculty members from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences have been recognized with annual awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), VUMC’s credentialing organization.

Gene variants associated with cancer risk appear to contribute to carcinogenesis by regulating target genes that in turn promote the generation of mutations.

“I didn’t even know I was sick. I’m thankful that Vanderbilt saved my life.”

For the first time at Vanderbilt, doctors have performed a transplantation with donated lungs that were rehabilitated using a procedure called ex vivo lung perfusion.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Barbour and her late husband, Richard, created a fund to help support Vanderbilt’s lung transplant patient assistance fund.