“Vanderbilt is an extremely welcoming environment for military personnel, and you see that all over campus.”

She has dedicated her career to transforming care for victims of sexual assault and intimate partner violence.

Kim and colleagues will study whether this protein hinders the ability of the immune system to fight MDS and whether it can be blocked to treat MDS.

Crowe and his colleagues have developed cutting-edge technologies to isolate and study antiviral antibodies.

“The work that Nancy does every day is tedious and challenging,” wrote one nominator. “But every moment she spends preparing sterile products and performing other critical tasks for our pediatric patients, Nancy has a joy on her face that can’t be missed.”

The EDRN works to discover, develop and validate biomarkers and imaging methods to detect early-stage cancers, assess risk for developing cancer, and translate these tools into clinical tests.

"The care we deliver in surgery is simply not possible without this army of devoted individuals.”