Reporter March 15 2013

A novel class of drugs that target “BET” proteins may have broad utility for treating genetically diverse brain tumors. Read More

The latest Credo Award and Five Pillar Leader Award winners were announced at this week’s Spring Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly at Langford Auditorium. Read More

The factor IRF6 plays important roles in the development of the tongue. Read More

Diagnostic codes used for billing purposes effectively identify smokers in a general clinic population and can be used to adjust smoking status in genetic and epidemiologic studies. Read More

The following are answers to frequently asked questions regarding the financial pressures created by the federal budget sequester and other legislation now facing Vanderbilt University Medical Center and academic health centers across the country. Read More

Vanderbilt University has established a tuberculosis center to expand and extend efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of this often fatal disease here and around the world. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Craig Lindsley, Ph.D., is the 2013 recipient of the Philip S. Portoghese Lectureship, awarded jointly by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Read More

Over the next three years, Medicare will test a new payment arrangement that rewards participating hospitals when Medicare patients require fewer inpatient and post-discharge services, but extracts financial penalties when patients require more of these services. Read More

Having served since 2009 as Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s chief quality and safety officer, Julie Morath, MSN, is leaving to become senior vice president for the California Hospital Association, where she will have oversight for hospital and health system quality and safety strategy and alignment. She will also be appointed CEO of the new California Hospital Quality Institute. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Multiple Sclerosis Center has been named a Comprehensive Care Center by the National MS Society. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB) celebrated its 10th anniversary Tuesday with a daylong research symposium. Read More

His dapper sense of style is well known to his Vanderbilt colleagues, and now it is bringing broader attention to Andre Churchwell, M.D., associate dean of Diversity at the School of Medicine. Read More

The Vanderbilt Franklin Women’s Center at Williamson Medical Center is now offering screening mammograms and bone density tests for patients in the community. Read More

Scott Hultgren, Ph.D., director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University in St. Louis, talked about improving therapies for urinary tract infections during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

An overview of financial pressures created by the federal budget sequester and other legislation now facing Vanderbilt University Medical Center and academic health centers across the country was presented March 12 at two leadership forums — the Spring Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly held that morning at Langford Auditorium, and a faculty meeting focused on impact on the research community the same afternoon in Light Hall. Read More

VUMC’s personalized medicine effort is getting a major boost with the recruitment of two physician-scientists from Australia who will increase Vanderbilt’s strength in translational immunology, the translation of basic immunological discoveries into clinically useful tools. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Acorda Therapeutics Inc. released findings from a Phase 1 clinical trial of glial growth factor 2 (GGF2) last week at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session in San Francisco. Read More

Understanding how bacteria become resistant to quinolone antibiotics could guide strategies for developing new antibacterial drugs. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is once again named among the nation’s elite Research Schools of Medicine in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s 2014 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, released this week. Read More