Health And Medicine

Kendra M. Faucett, DNP, BS’00, CNM, APRN, CNE, FACNM, will become academic director for the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Nurse-Midwifery specialty on September 18. She comes to Nashville from her role as an assistant professor and course coordinator at Frontier Nursing University.  “I am thrilled to be joining the No. 1 midwifery program in the country,” Faucett said. “Vanderbilt has an outstanding reputation,... Read More

10 basic sciences graduate students were recognized for their high academic and scientific achievement and for the originality, significance, and rigor of their dissertation research with the Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has been named a National League of Nursing Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for its support of faculty pedagogical expertise. Read More

John Jumper, BS’07 will give the next Apex Lecture on Aug. 30. Jumper leads the team that developed AlphaFold, a trailblazing artificial intelligence system that can accurately predict the 3D structures of proteins. Jumper’s lecture is co-sponsored by the recently launched Vanderbilt Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Protein Dynamics. Read More

Four Vanderbilt graduate students, faculty advisers named to Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellows Program for their leadership in science and commitment to advancing equity and inclusion in science. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers found that that T cells become “exhausted” within hours of encountering a tumor, challenging existing ideas about how T cells become dysfunctional. Read More

The Tennessee Action Coalition has included a School of Nursing faculty member and a Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt nurse in its 2023 cohort of Tennessee Rising Star Nurse Leaders. VUSN Assistant Professor Monika Schmidt Do, DNP, FACC, and clinical staff leader Cory Smeltzer, RN, were among 25 young Tennessee nurse leaders named rising stars. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received a four-year, $28 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study the relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes. Read More

After the pandemic, teen mental health has plummeted. Learn the science behind disorders and brain development in the next Lab-to-Table Conversation on Aug. 10. Read More

A medical device company co-founded by Vanderbilt engineering professor Robert J. Webster III recently announced the completion of a successful first-in-human clinical study using its innovative technology that radically improves minimally invasive endoscopic surgery. Read More

Nancy Cox, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, is the recipient of the 2023 ASHG Leadership Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Cambridge have developed a method of or predicting gene expression in hard-to-access tissues like the brain from more accessible tissues, including whole blood. Read More

Vanderbilt's Andreana Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, has received the National Cancer Institute’s Method to Extend Research in Time Award to support her ongoing investigation into how early-onset colorectal cancer and its treatments impact reproductive health. Read More

A Vanderbilt study of genetic risks for cognitive impairment later in life uses data from 32,426 research participants ages 60 and older to elaborate these risks across sex and across the intersection of sex and race. Read More

University Distinguished Professor and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering Cynthia Reinhart-King has been elected to the 2023 Class of Fellows of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. IAMBE is made up of fellows who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering at an international level. Read More

Neil Osheroff received the Mentoring, Innovation, and Leadership in Educational Scholarship Award at the annual Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference that took place in May. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have uncovered evidence of fibroblast cells' direct involvement in the development of gastric cancer. Read More

The 2023 annual Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology Symposium, featuring prominent scientists—including keynote speaker Dr. John Yates III—will be Aug. 8 at the Student Life Center. Sponsored by Ancora Innovation, the event will include discussions on innovative life science research and drug development, promising a day of knowledge sharing and networking for Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty. Read More

Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achieved a rare feat in science — they have shattered a long-standing dogma about how the lung develops. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Associate Professor of Nursing Stephanie DeVane-Johnson, PhD, MSN’97, CNM, FACNM, has been awarded a two-year Diversity Supplement grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The National Institute of Health (NIH) supplement supports early career researchers of color by providing mentorship, training and career development opportunities... Read More