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September 10, 2015

Initiative seeks to bolster ‘rediscovery research’

The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) is partnering with a public charity, Cures Within Reach, to encourage “rediscovery research,” the “repurposing” of already approved medical treatments to other conditions or diseases for which there are no “universally” effective therapies.

By Bill Snyder
September 2, 2015

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt holds construction expansion celebration

By Christina Echegaray
August 27, 2015

McNeilly, Stein show that support can last a lifetime

John Stein and Bob McNeilly Jr. were students at Vanderbilt University decades apart. One studied biology, the other education. One was a Nashville native, the other from Florida.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 30, 2015

Dill named VUMC entertainment industry liaison

Stuart Dill, a 30-year veteran as an artist manager on Nashville’s Music Row, has been named Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s liaison with the entertainment industry, effective Aug. 4.

By Nancy Humphrey
July 30, 2015

Singer’s selfless gift benefits lung cancer program

In a town full of amazing singers, Nashville songstress Dawn Sears’ voice was something special.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 23, 2015

Young professionals bolster cancer research efforts

With a basketball tucked under his arm, 7-year-old Roger Waynick climbed on top of his dad’s black Tahoe SUV with the intention of sailing upward through the air toward the basketball goal. He was poised to make the most epic dunk ever.

By Jessica Pasley
June 25, 2015

VUMC, Meharry and State Health Department receive NIH grant to establish AIDS research center

Vanderbilt University has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research with Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Department of Health.
By Bill Snyder
June 25, 2015

Benefit concert for organ donation exceeds fundraising goals

In only its second year, Songs for Life, a benefit concert to raise awareness and celebrate organ donation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has far exceeded fundraising goals.
By Jessica Pasley
June 18, 2015

MVA study shows benefits of pharmacy care in diabetes treatment

Underserved patients with sub-optimally controlled type 2 diabetes who were cared for by pharmacists were more adherent to their medication regimen and had better blood sugar control than those who did not have a pharmacist in their care team.
By Matt Schorr
June 11, 2015

Former heart patient inspired to create Discovery Science Fund

Two vastly different causes of heart failure, both of which can devastate a patient’s life, are being studied at Vanderbilt University Medical Center thanks, in part, to the generosity of a grateful patient whose own damaged heart was repaired at Vanderbilt more than five years ago.
By Nancy Humphrey
June 4, 2015

NIH director’s Discovery Lecture covers biomedical research landscape

Last week in Langford Auditorium, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivered what he referred to as a “romp through an awful lot of the landscape of biomedical research.”
By Paul Govern
May 28, 2015

Dietitian and friends donate chemo care bags to VICC patients

A Nashville-based dietitian who lost her mother to cancer is using the power of social media to raise funds for chemo care bags for cancer patients.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 21, 2015

Coleman’s telethon work a longtime labor of love

Not long after Tuwanda Coleman started her career as a TV producer at WTVF-NewsChannel 5 more than 30 years ago, she was given an assignment that was different from the typical minutes-long news segment.
By VUMC News and Communications