Year: 2015

Thirty-three percent of pediatric heart transplant patients developed antibodies against the donor heart, which can lead to rejection, a new Vanderbilt study reports. Read More

(iStockphoto) Holiday lights and decorations are a special part of the season but also bring an increased potential for injury, especially to young children. During November and December 2014, holiday decorations or decorating safety mishaps accounted for 12 fatalities and an estimated 14,500 injuries nationwide, according to… Read More

(iStockphoto) Vanderbilt psychiatrist Judith Akin, M.D., who frequently counsels people who are having a hard time through the holidays, has a quick guideline: set a course “between Hallmark and heartache” and aim to have a “pretty good little Christmas.” In other words, she says,… Read More

Along with the hustle and bustle of the season come the displays of the seasonal foliage. How toxic are our holiday plants?  Donna Seger, M.D., Medical Director of the Tennessee Poison Center, housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, offers this summary of some… Read More

Learn how Jack Rutledge, BMus’03, MBA’09, turned his talent for music and business to become head of catalog and selection for Amazon Music. Learn how he blended his music and business acumen into a successful career. Read More

Would working at a toy company really be all fun and games? Erin Sullivan can tell you. She has worked at Mattel since landing a marketing internship while a student at Owen. Now senior director for Fisher-Price marketing, she has handled virtually every Mattel brand, except dolls, in her 11… Read More

Greg Brink, EMBA’03, is a senior risk manager at Fannie Mae and has spent his career working with commercial mortgages. His wife, Ann Marie, is a professional musician who is the associate principal violist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. They met at a patrons’ event for the orchestra in Dallas. Read More

Heiki Miki, MBA’96, travels the globe as Shinagawa Refractories’ executive officer and general manager of overseas business for Americas, Europe/Middle East and Oceania—and as one of Vanderbilt’s most visible and appreciated international supporters. The 2015 Owen Distinguished Alumni Award recipient formed the Vanderbilt Japan Chapter in 2015 and is taking… Read More

Maria Renz, MBA’96, technical adviser to the CEO of Amazon.com, recently returned to Nashville to attend an Owen Alumni Board meeting. During her visit she also spoke during an Opening Bell event and sat down with Dean Johnson for a video interview that covers leadership, career and how technology is… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to study cell signaling networks at single-cell resolution. Read More

Last month, hundreds of patients living with diabetes and their family members joined the staff of the Vanderbilt Children's Diabetes Program for the 14th annual Diabetes Family Day at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. Read More

A Vanderbilt Law School professor says there is a second constitutional battle brewing in the Fisher v. UT-Austin Supreme Court case regarding the use of race in college admissions. Read More

Combining inhibitors of the BMP signaling pathway with standard chemotherapy drugs may overcome drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Read More

Architectural rendering of the new Seacrest Studios inside Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation (RSF), announced today that they are building a new state-of-the-art, multimedia broadcast studio, named Seacrest Studios, inside… Read More

Biomolecular engineers at Vanderbilt University have obtained the most detailed measurements ever made of the behavior of an individual cellulase enzyme as it decomposes cellulose, the most plentiful polymer on the planet. Improved understanding of how cellulases work could be the key to producing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline for powering vehicles. Read More

Terence Dermody, M.D., director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is leaving to become chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, physician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and scientific director of the Rangos Research Center. Read More

Arthur Wheeler, M.D., and his wife, Lisa, pose with the portrait of Wheeler that was unveiled at a special reception last week honoring his career accomplishments and service to VUMC. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ono Pharmaceutical Group, an international company based in Japan, have signed a drug discovery agreement. Read More

The Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) is recognizing Joseph Smith Jr., M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery, with the Huggins Medal, its highest honor, for his lifetime contributions to the progress in treatment for patients with genitourinary neoplasms, which are tumors or cancer of the reproductive organs and the urinary system. Read More

Malpractice awards and settlements are eight times greater when physicians misdiagnosis sarcoma than when they make other mistakes, according to a review of 32 years of court cases. Read More