Releases

A Vanderbilt study concluded that RSV’s ability to mutate rapidly to escape detection by the body’s immune system makes it more challenging to design and develop vaccines that can stop it from spreading. Read More

Chuck Sanders, Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair of Cardiovascular Research and professor of biochemistry and medicine, has recently been promoted from associate dean for research to vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Read More

By Jenna Somers Cynthia Osborne The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development recently released Child Care in Crisis: Texas Case Study, a series of four research briefs demonstrating the strained conditions of the child care industry in Texas. While… Read More

Hiba Baroud has been selected for membership in the Global Young Academy. She joins the world’s top 200 young researchers and professionals to contribute innovative and creative solutions that address critical global challenges. Read More

Lauren Malachowski and Kathryn Humphreys When a parent needs to cook dinner or take a shower, often they will place their baby in a bouncy seat, swing, exersaucer, or similar seating device intended to protect the baby and grant a degree of independence to both the parent and infant. For… Read More

A clinical patient encounter led two Medical Innovators Development Program students to develop a potentially life-saving technology through an industry immersion experience with GE HealthCare. Read More

Vanderbilt professors Abhishek Dubey, Jonathan Brunger, and Carlos Silvera Batista have won National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. The prestigious five-year award honors early career faculty who have the potential to serve as role models in research and education and lead advances in their fields. Read More

Vanderbilt professor Sruthi Thatchenkery addresses the complexity of competition and innovation in platform ecosystems with new research. Read More

Four researchers from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are among those named to Education Week's 2023 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, an annual list of education researchers who have demonstrated the greatest influence over educational policy and practice. Read More

Vanderbilt researcher Amanda Lea, along with a global team of experts, has discovered new pathways of natural selection in humans. Read More

The Wond’ry is working with IBM to equip Vanderbilt community members with no-cost STEM education and career readiness resources through IBM SkillsBuild, a no-cost education program focused on underrepresented communities, that helps develop valuable new skills and equitable access to career opportunities in technology fields. Read More

Vanderbilt research found that sleep irregularity — chronically disrupted sleep and highly variable sleep durations night after night — may increase the risk for atherosclerosis. Read More

A collaborative team at Vanderbilt is transforming the diagnosis and treatment of lipedema, a debilitating, abnormal deposition of fatty tissue that afflicts an estimated 17 million women in the United States. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor Gautam Biswas partnered with the School of Nursing to bring eye tracking technology and machine learning algorithms into education and training environments. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to analyze mutations in blood stem cells that can trigger explosive, clonal expansions of abnormal cells. Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Nursing has been approved for a $250,000 award that will support identifying and disseminating strategies for overcoming barriers to patient- and family-centered comparative effectiveness research with patients who are critically ill and hospitalized in an intensive care unit setting. Read More

With a newly developed technique, Vanderbilt professor Jessica Oster is revealing how prehistoric climate change shaped fire activity in California. Read More

New research from Jessica Kennedy explores the relationship between deception in negotiations and negotiators’ satisfaction with their deals. Read More

An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt's Rubén Martínez-Barricarte has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia.  Read More

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