Publications

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has established a new Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery to accelerate research that may lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and other disorders of the brain. Read More

Why did you first become involved with VUcept? I became involved with VUcept because I believe in its mission. Being a first-year presents many challenges, and for me, my biggest challenge was losing my grandfather to leukemia only two months after coming to Vanderbilt. Read More

Results of a landmark, seven-year National Institutes of Health-funded trial, Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS), demonstrate clear benefit for babies who undergo fetal surgery to treat spina bifida, the most common birth defect in the central nervous system. The surgical procedure, in utero repair of myelomeningocele, was pioneered at Vanderbilt… Read More

The Vanderbilt Melodores have come a long way from a group of guys practicing in the basement of Carmichael Towers. The all-male a capella group has been nominated for a Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award for Best Classical Song for their rendition of Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep.”… Read More

In the past year, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health has greatly expanded campus-wide programming, one that students are closely involved with shaping. “We have a very close relationship with the medical students and we are working to develop deeper and more significant relationships with students in other schools,” said… Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University are busy building the pharmacy of the future. On its shelves may be: • New medications for schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease, and the first drug treatment for Fragile X syndrome; • A drug that can stop a particularly vicious form of breast cancer in its tracks;… Read More

Parade All-Americans. Four-star standouts. Mr. Football recipients. All-State players galore. Talent in abundance. Welcome to James Franklin’s initial National Signing Day at Vanderbilt. “I can’t tell you how happy I am today,” Franklin said. “All of these young men have listened to our pitch – and have chosen to become… Read More

This month, things will change for the better in the Edgehill community, a neighborhood located a few blocks from the Vanderbilt campus. Healthy food will be more readily available to Edgehill’s low-income residents, thanks to an innovative “mobile grocery store” developed by second-year medical student Ravi Patel and initially inspired… Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and across the globe, announced today a multi-national collaboration to discover and map all genes relating to Alzheimer’s disease through the formation of the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP). Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that is fatal, has no cure and available… Read More

Can the world burn fossil fuels for energy in a way that doesn’t contribute to global warming? What can be done to protect people from the release of toxic chemicals? How would NASA care for a sick astronaut during long-duration space explorations like a manned mission to Mars? These are… Read More

Paula Hart was just 46 when she starting having shortness of breath, along with a nagging cough and intermittent pain in her left shoulder. After a trip to the emergency room in her hometown of Evansville, Ind., and a series of additional tests, doctors finally diagnosed Hart with non-small cell… Read More

If you ask any nurse about Florence Nightingale, most will be able to say that she was the founder of modern nursing. And for many that is about the extent of their  knowledge. But this woman, who served as a catalyst for changing the view of health care and nursing,… Read More

The chancellor was literally thumping the podium. Crusty sportswriters rolled their eyes. The trolls were having a field day on the Internet. Vanderbilt was announcing a new football coach. This had happened before. “We win everywhere at Vanderbilt,” exhorted Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. “We win athletically. We win academically. And… Read More

Jeremy Kane’s emergence as a key figure in Nashville’s charter schools movement may well have taken root in seventh grade. That was the year he transferred from a Metro Nashville public school to Montgomery Bell Academy, a private college preparatory school. “It was the beginning of a conversation that continues… Read More

By all accounts, Frank Lorge, a 2010 Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, is the best swimmer ever to compete for Vanderbilt. He was undefeated by opponents in dual meets during his career from 1968-1972, a two-time SEC champion in the 200-yard backstroke, and the first SEC swimmer to break… Read More

The year is winding down, and the holidays are in full swing. For most of us, it is a time of family and feasting, shopping and gift-giving, conviviality and controlled chaos. From the first bite of Thanksgiving turkey until the new year is rung in, we look forward to gathering… Read More

Clinical pharmacologist Nancy Brown, M.D., relaxes in her chair, leans on an elbow and gives each speaker her utmost concentration. A dozen or so biomedical scientists attend Brown’s weekly research meetings, held in a small conference room tucked amid laboratories high in the Robinson Research Building. Five or six young… Read More

Tony N. Brown’s office is in Garland Hall, exactly where one might expect to find a scholar in the College of Arts and Science. But the associate professor of sociology might not be in, as his teaching, research projects and secondary appointments take him all over campus. It’s a good… Read More

Four years ago Christopher Parks found himself facing an all-too-common dilemma. He and his mother, who was in the midst of cancer treatments, were sitting in her living room going through a stack of her medical bills and those of his father, who had died recently. It is a telling… Read More

In 2002, having recently undergone board certification as a neurosurgeon, Robert J. Singer, M.D., sat down at his kitchen table with some butcher paper and a few drafting instruments and began designing electric guitars. Once he had completed a dozen designs, he engaged a factory in Korea to make the… Read More