Andrea Page-McCaw

The Office of the Provost’s newly charged Science Space Planning Committee, a faculty- and staff-led initiative, will ensure that Vanderbilt’s physical spaces properly serve the needs and goals of scientific research and discovery. Read More

The Genetics Society of America has presented James O’Connor, a Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, the 2023 Larry Sandler Award. This international award recognizes the best Ph.D. dissertation on Drosophila—a fly genus that includes the fruit fly, a widely used model organism in biomedical research—from the previous year. Read More

Nominations are open for the ninth cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows, a program that awards select faculty with financial and institutional support at a key moment in their careers. Learn more and read about past awardees' successes. Read More

Pioneering research from Vanderbilt scientists discovers the mechanism by which epithelial cells first find and react to wounds. Est. reading time: 3 mins. Read More

Three of Vanderbilt University’s key initiatives to prevent sexual harassment are highlighted in a searchable repository launched by the National Academies in its Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education. Read More

Basement membranes are important structural and functional components of tissues. New research provides insight into how they repair themselves. Read More

Vanderbilt University has joined with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a founding member of the new Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education. Read More

Five Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.  Read More

New research by Andrea Page-McCaw shows that a membrane that wraps around most animal tissues can heal within 24 hours, but does leave a scar. Read More

Understanding the specialized environment where stem cells reside is important for developing stem-cell based regenerative therapies. Read More

Vanderbilt scientists have taken an important step toward understanding the way in which injured cells trigger wound healing, an insight essential for improving treatments of all types of wounds. Read More

Fifteen faculty members from diverse disciplines have been selected as the first cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. Read More

The potential for long-range signaling factors – such as those identified in the current study – to regulate stem cell behaviors has implications in tumor progression and metastasis. Read More