The award is the highest honor for outstanding biomedical research from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development.

DNA biobanks had lacked systematic ways to evaluate whether the medical record data being analyzed accurately reflected the diseases under study.

A national search will be conducted to identify Dooley’s successor as director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and an interim director will be announced at a later date.

“What I found in this work is that there's a certain magic that every person has, and they don't stop being who they are when medical crises happen.”

Jean-Paul Marie, MD, PhD, a physician from France who has spent over two decades honing the selective laryngeal reinnervation, presented at the second annual Robert H. Ossoff Lecture and was a guest in the operating room for Vanderbilt Health’s seventh such surgery.

From thought-provoking lectures to data-driven presentations, Research Week provided a platform for researchers to share their discoveries, inspire collaboration and ignite new ideas to improve the lives of children everywhere.