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April 23, 2024
Civil Rights leader visits VUH Emergency Department
Legendary civil rights activist Diane Nash visited the emergency department at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on April 20 to acknowledge the naming of a physician team in her honor. -
April 22, 2024
Julie Bastarache elected VP of clinical investigation society
Julie Bastarache, MD, Assistant Vice President for Clinical & Translational Scientist Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for 2024-2025. -
April 22, 2024
AI to doctors: Beat that!
Artificial intelligence programs outperformed doctors at answering typical patient questions — suggesting they could be used to write first-draft responses and help speed doctors’ work. -
April 22, 2024
Study reveals potential new way to stop a common kidney cancer
Vanderbilt researchers have identified cancer cell-specific genetic alterations that reprogram the immune “landscape,” thereby driving tumor growth, and discovered a potential new drug target for stopping it. -
April 22, 2024
Jennifer Vega receives NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Award
Jennifer Vega, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist and research instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has received a 2024 National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation Young Investigator Award. -
April 22, 2024
Sean Donahue to become president of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Sean Donahue, MD, PhD, Sam and Darthea Coleman Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, will become president of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in July. -
April 19, 2024
A ‘Site’ for Sore Eyes
Four years ago, Roger Lasater went outside to look at the stars and the moon and couldn't see them. He was was in the beginning stages of age-related macular degeneration, one of the many eye diseases studied by physician-scientists at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute.