Research
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Vanderbilt study debunks “phantom liquidity” problem caused by high-frequency traders
Despite calls to curtail high-frequency trades, researchers find indications that the practice helps lower costs for traders. Read MoreJul 27, 2016
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Psychopathologist elected fellow of Association for Psychological Science
Associate Professor of Psychology Bunmi Olatunji is one of 45 members elevated this year to the status of fellow by the Association for Psychological Science. Read MoreJul 26, 2016
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Deadlines approaching for faculty research funding opportunities
Deadlines are quickly approaching for four foundation grants for early and midcareer faculty. Read MoreJul 25, 2016
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LGBTQ students feel safer at schools with gay-straight alliances
High school gay-straight alliances promote a culture of tolerance that benefits students, Peabody researchers have found. Read MoreJul 25, 2016
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Team to study RSV’s role in asthma formation
Investigators in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine recently received a $4.5 million Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Center (AADCRC) grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Read MoreJul 21, 2016
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Two receive Research to Prevent Blindness grants
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded two grants to faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology. Read MoreJul 21, 2016
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Using virtual reality to help teenagers with autism learn how to drive
A team of engineers and psychologists have developed a virtual reality driving simulator designed to help teenagers with autism spectrum disorder learn to drive, a key skill in allowing them to live independent and productive lives. Read MoreJul 21, 2016
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Curb Public Scholar aims to reduce subtle bias in social interactions
A Divinity School student has been awarded a Curb Public Scholarship to develop a game-based tool for reducing bias in group interactions. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Super-eruptions may give only a year’s warning before they blow
A microscopic analysis of quartz crystals from an ancient California super-eruption indicates that the process of decompression preceding the eruption took place less than a year before. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Breast cancer: finding the smoking gun
A new method developed at Vanderbilt may help “inventory” all tumor-promoting genes. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Diabetes drugs may ease addiction
Drugs that are being used clinically to treat obesity and diabetes may also have a role in treating drug abuse. Read MoreJul 18, 2016
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Work together to control diabetes
Parenting behaviors may be an important target for improving outcomes in adolescents with diabetes. Read MoreJul 15, 2016
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‘Dark pools’ threaten market governance of financial markets
The major stock exchanges need new methods of regulation because of "dark pools," trading platforms that allow trades to remain private for a short while, says Vanderbilt finance expert Yesha Yadav. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Influx of major NIH grants fuels growth of research enterprise
During the past two weeks, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have brought in a number of new research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that together achieve $137 million in new funding. The funding is a trans-institutional accomplishment of the Schools of Engineering and Medicine and the College of Arts and Science. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Membrane fats impact drug transporter
New studies of a membrane transporter could explain antibiotic resistance – and lead to novel ways to combat it. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Six attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research
Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. Read MoreJul 12, 2016
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These days, fecal transplantation is no joke
Fecal transplants are increasingly being used to treat certain human illnesses and more scientists have begun to research the transplants' effects in animals. Read MoreJul 12, 2016
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When mitochondrial genes act up
A team of Vanderbilt scientists have identified some of the methods that mutant mitochondrial DNA use to circumvent the molecular mechanisms that cells use to regulate mitochondrial activity. Read MoreJul 12, 2016
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Vanderbilt study shows people with Alzheimer’s have lower ability to perceive pain
People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in pain detection may be one reason that people with Alzheimer’s disease and pain tend to be undermedicated and suffer unnecessarily, a trans-institutional group of Vanderbilt researchers reported recently in BMC Medicine. Read MoreJul 12, 2016
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Antidepressants: A treatment for bad marriages?
Psychiatrists usually treat marriage troubles by prescribing drugs meant for depression, a new study from Vanderbilt University shows. Read MoreJul 7, 2016