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Brooke Emerling, PhD, and Raymond Blind, PhD (seated, in foreground) at a 2023 scientific symposium they organized. Standing next to Blind is Hua Ya, PhD, from the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Behind him in the light blue shirt is Emilio Hirsch, PhD, from the University of Torino, Italy.

Discovery raises hopes for new cancer therapy

The study connected the Hippo signaling pathway to phosphoinositides, a particular type of lipid, or fat molecule, which regulates cell functions that are critical in cancer, obesity and diabetes.

Nursing event takes deep dive into evidence-based practice

The event featured lectures, breakout sessions and mentored work time that reinforced the seven-step evidence-based practice model.

As “trauma season” approaches and the need for blood donation grows, VUMC names Blood Assurance its primary supplier of blood and blood products

Blood Assurance guarantees that blood donated at VUMC blood drives will be used for patients at Vanderbilt. It is also possible for donors at any Middle Tennessee Blood Assurance drive to designate the donated blood for VUMC.

By Wayne Wood

June 6, 2024

Stokes, Austin, Rosas-Salazar honored by the American Thoracic Society

The mission of the ATS is to promote the respiratory health of children and adolescents and to improve the care of children with respiratory disease through research, education, patient care and advocacy.

By Christina Echegaray

June 6, 2024

Fei Ye selected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association

Fei Ye is the first woman among VUMC’s Biostatistics faculty to be selected as an ASA fellow. She’ll be among 47 new ASA fellows inducted in August at the Joint Statistical Meetings.

By Paul Govern

Terri Doss, second from right, a research assistant at the Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, received the Robert K. Hall Service Award for her outstanding contributions to the diabetes research community. Young investigators receiving awards at Diabetes Day are, left to right, Kathryn Snyder, MD, MPH; Darian Carroll; Doss and Dudley McNitt, PhD. Not pictured is Emily Hawes, PhD. (photo by Susan Urmy)

June 6, 2024

Diabetes Day spotlights achievements, current investigations

Today, the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center includes 140 faculty members from 15 departments and three colleges or schools at Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College who conduct basic, clinical and translational research on the cause, prevention, treatment and complications of diabetes and obesity.