Innovation

Jenny Slayton, DNP, RN, receives the Outstanding Operational Partner Award from Gordon Bernard, MD.

Slayton receives award for uniting research, clinical operations

Jenny Slayton, DNP, RN, received the Outstanding Operational Partner Award recently at the Vanderbilt Symposium on Implementation Research in the Learning Health System.

Project aims to improve ear disease diagnoses with objective machine learning techniques

A new project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and led by Aaron Moberly, MD, and Metin Gurcan, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and the Clinical Image Analysis Lab at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, aims to develop machine learning applications to analyze eardrum videos collected with a digital otoscope.

By Danny Bonvissuto

May 11, 2023

Procedure uses patient’s own growth to treat scoliosis

Vanderbilt pediatric orthopaedic surgeons are the first in Tennessee to perform an innovative procedure to treat scoliosis that uses the patient’s own growth to correct the curve.

By Jessica Pasley

March 2, 2023

VUMC joins group to accelerate implementation of research findings to improve patient outcomes

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is part of a select group of health systems nationwide brought together to accelerate the implementation of medical research results that will improve patient outcomes.

By Craig Boerner

VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.

January 9, 2023

Nashville Biosciences and Illumina announce sequencing agreement with Amgen

Nashville Biosciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced an agreement with Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical company, to whole-genome sequence approximately 35,000 DNA samples.