Research
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Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory launches 2024 season with a new look
Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory welcomes astronomy enthusiasts to its 2024 season, marked this year by the unveiling of a new logo. Read MoreMar 22, 2024
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Limited Submission Opportunity: 2024 Incyte Ingenuity Awards in Graft-Versus-Host-Disease
Vanderbilt University may submit up to 5 applications to the 2024 Incyte Ingenuity Awards in graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD). Read MoreMar 21, 2024
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Limited Submission Opportunity: Tennessee Arts Commission – Arts Build Communities FY2025
Vanderbilt University may submit only one application to the TN Arts Commission's Arts Build Communities program. Read MoreMar 21, 2024
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Vanderbilt launches AUD Research and Education Center with prestigious $8.9 million NIH grant
An $8.9 million grant from the NIH will establish the Vanderbilt AUD Research and Education Center, enhancing Vanderbilt University’s national leadership in neuroscience and addiction research. This initiative aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, advance understanding and treatment of alcohol use disorder, and engage the public through education and outreach efforts. Read MoreMar 21, 2024
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Taking a bite out of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: Vanderbilt professors search for a cure
Vanderbilt University Professor of Biochemistry and Vice Dean of Basic Sciences Chuck Sanders and Professor of Biochemistry Bruce Carter have been hard at work searching for therapies, if not a cure, for CMT. Read MoreMar 20, 2024
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Vanderbilt scientists receive National Science Foundation grant to explore RNA behavior
Manuel Ascano, associate professor of biochemistry and pathology, microbiology and immunology, and Dr. Alissa Weaver, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research, are one of nine U.S. research teams awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to more fully understand the potential biotechnological uses of RNA, ranging from crop disease protection to treatments that combat cancer. Read MoreMar 18, 2024
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AUIB’s College of Education and Human Development welcomes first students
The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the American University of Iraq—Baghdad welcomed its first cohort of students in January for the start of the spring semester. Eighteen students are enrolled in the Teaching Learning and Design (TLD) Program. In 2022, Vanderbilt Peabody College of education… Read MoreMar 18, 2024
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Special education faculty honored by Council for Exceptional Children
Jason Chow Douglas Fuchs Lynn Fuchs Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development faculty members Jason Chow and Doug and Lynn Fuchs were recognized by the Council for Exceptional Children, the major professional organization in the field of special education, at… Read MoreMar 18, 2024
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Vanderbilt celebrates Generative AI Seed Grant awardees
Generative AI Seed Grants support innovative research across five schools, highlighting groundbreaking projects in emergency response, enzymology, early literacy, nursing education, historical analysis and AI law. The grant program embodies Vanderbilt’s leadership in generative AI research and application. Read MoreMar 18, 2024
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Class of 2024: Jack Bulger’s life journey shapes him as a player and person
WATCH: VandyBoys catcher Jack Bulger talks about the teacher who inspired him most and how he built his own brace with what he learned at the School of Engineering. Read MoreMar 15, 2024
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Q&A: Illuminating a critical step in initiating DNA replication in eukaryotes
Brandt Eichman and Walter Chazin, professors of biochemistry, have worked together to provide a better understanding of how exactly DNA replication is initiated in eukaryotes. Using Vanderbilt’s state-of-the-art instrumentation in the Center for Structural Biology’s Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, Eichman, Chazin and their colleagues provided detailed visualizations of a multi-functional protein in action, which sheds light on how DNA replication is initiated in humans. Read MoreMar 15, 2024
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Limited Submission Opportunity: 2024 Conservation, Food & Health Foundation Grants
Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the July 2024 cycle of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation (CFH) Grants program. Read MoreMar 14, 2024
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The rules of invention do not reflect the realities of the inventive process. Here’s how to fix it.
The Invention Myth, by Sean B. Seymore, Centennial Professor of Law and Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University, offers a new approach to inventorship, one that more accurately reflects the way many significant things are created. Read MoreMar 14, 2024
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Hierarchy expansion: When should my startup hire managers?
In new research, Vanderbilt's Megan Lawrence examines the role of knowledge scope and shared experiences in organizational coordination. Read MoreMar 14, 2024
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Watch Now: Lab-to-Table Conversation ‘Biotech Entrepreneurship: Stories & Strategies’
Join the next Lab-to-Table conversation, “Biotech Entrepreneurship: Stories & Strategies” on March 26 at 11 a.m. CT. Read MoreMar 12, 2024
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Phase 3 CELLEBRATE Trial testing regenerative stem cell-based therapy to improve urinary control for women
The Phase 3 CELLEBRATE trial to test a regenerative stem cell-based therapy in treating patients with stress urinary incontinence is continuing to recruit additional subjects after changing its study protocol to include only patients who have already tried surgery. Read MoreMar 11, 2024
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CLASS OF 2024: Hope through heartbreak fuels Vanessa Morales’ mission to help expecting mothers
WATCH: Hear how Bass Military Scholar Vanessa Morales is harnessing her personal experiences to make her a more compassionate nurse midwife. Read MoreMar 8, 2024
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Blood mutations increase risk for acute kidney injury: study
A U.S.-Canadian research collaboration led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center has identified common, age-associated changes in the blood as a risk factor for acute kidney injury, which occurs in more than 1 in 5 hospitalized adults worldwide. Read MoreMar 7, 2024
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Breaking the Mold: Kyle David’s research challenges ecological norms in yeast communities
Kyle David, an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Rokas lab, and co-authors published a new paper, “Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns” in the high-impact journal PNAS. This paper, which looks at the ecology of 186 species of yeast, provides evidence that not all life-forms follow the rules. Read MoreMar 7, 2024
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Limited Submission Opportunity: 2024 Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust – Ornamental Horticulture Grants
Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the 2024 Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust - Ornamental Horticulture Grants. Read MoreMar 7, 2024