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June 12, 2024
VUMC creating career development ladder for care partners
The program, which is optional, allows care partners to start at a Care Partner I position and progress to Care Partner II and Care Partner III. -
June 12, 2024
Obesity-cancer connection discovery suggests strategies for improving immunotherapy
The study reported in the journal Nature provides a mechanistic explanation for the “obesity paradox” — that obesity can contribute to cancer progression but also improve response to immunotherapy. -
June 12, 2024
Study shows a simple blood test can predict cardiorespiratory fitness
The researchers tested the feasibility of using a simple set of proteins from blood to capture a molecular fingerprint of cardiorespiratory fitness. -
June 11, 2024
2024 Chancellor Faculty Fellows selected
Each fellow holds the title for two years, receives $40,000 per year to support their work, and meets with their cohort to exchange ideas, build a broader intellectual community and engage in academic leadership development. -
June 10, 2024
Office of Outpatient Referral Assistance announces leadership appointments
The office ensures that patients receive timely and appropriate medical attention and optimizes uncompensated care delivery through case reviews and determinations that have dramatically increased over the last four years. -
June 10, 2024
Vanderbilt researchers establish biomedical informatics training program in Mozambique
Building sustainable biomedical informatics training and research capacity to address gaps in Mozambique's national HIV response will help the country leverage newer data-driven and genetics-based approaches for personalized HIV care and molecular epidemiology of the disease. -
June 7, 2024
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.