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Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read MoreMay 12, 2021
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Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read MoreMay 12, 2021
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Personalized Structural Biology aids cancer treatment decisions
Cancer specialists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in partnership with biochemists and structural biologists across the Vanderbilt University campus, are taking “personalized” cancer therapy to a new level. Read MoreMay 8, 2021
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Study revises understanding of cancer metabolism
Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and refined over the last 100 years. Read MoreMay 8, 2021
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Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize
By Jenna Somers During battle, many soldiers who become wounded find themselves at the mercy of another soldier’s medical training, hoping beyond hope that the soldier administering aid will remember their training well enough to save the wounded soldier’s life. Under such duress, recalling the details of medical training could be difficult, and the failure... Read MoreMay 7, 2021
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Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize
By Jenna Somers During battle, many soldiers who become wounded find themselves at the mercy of another soldier’s medical training, hoping beyond hope that the soldier administering aid will remember their training well enough to save the wounded soldier’s life. Under such duress, recalling the details of medical training could be difficult, and the failure... Read MoreMay 7, 2021
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VUMC to lead national study to treat severe COVID complications
The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) has been awarded a major federal grant to lead a national trial of treatments targeting the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System (RAAS) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Read MoreMay 6, 2021
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Study finds that regulatory protein prevents signaling that triggers cell death
A protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis prevents the activation of an innate immune response that leads to cell death, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. Read MoreMay 6, 2021
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Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant
Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read MoreMay 5, 2021
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Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant
Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read MoreMay 5, 2021
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New strategy to treat brain bleeding
Vasorelaxing peptides could offer a promising therapeutic strategy for reducing the neurological deficits caused by subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced cerebral blood vessel constriction. Read MoreMay 4, 2021
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Strength in numbers
Voluntary data sharing across a region’s health systems and ambulatory care practices is important for measuring and improving health care quality and safety, Vanderbilt researchers report. Read MoreMay 3, 2021
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University of Pennsylvania nursing dean to speak on advancing health equity May 18
Hispanic and Latinx people are three times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than white people. Black people are 2.8 times more likely to be hospitalized. A key reason: health inequities. As health professionals and advocates, nurses can improve equities, says Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing... Read MoreApr 29, 2021
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Genetic ancestry and hypertension risk
Racial disparities in hypertension risk are due in part to genetic differences between ancestries, Vanderbilt investigators find in a study of participants in the Million Veteran Program. Read MoreApr 29, 2021
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A compound to counteract aging?
A compound that increases lifespan in yeast is offering clues to pharmacological approaches that might slow the aging process and improve health. Read MoreApr 29, 2021
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Regev receives Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Aviv Regev, PhD, an internationally known computational biologist and executive vice president of Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), is the recipient of the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced this week. Read MoreApr 28, 2021
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New therapeutic strategy for leukemia syndrome
Using primary cells from patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, Vanderbilt researchers found synergistic inhibition of cell viability and proliferation, suggesting a new treatment strategy. Read MoreApr 20, 2021
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VUMC aids national effort to repurpose drugs for COVID-19
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been named Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for a nationwide platform of studies aimed at “repurposing” existing drugs to treat mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19. Read MoreApr 19, 2021
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COVID data, by hook or by crook
A switch to paper forms during the COVID-19 pandemic might have hobbled research, but using software with a novel user interface made it possible to accurately extract information from scanned forms. Read MoreApr 19, 2021
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Engineers’ groundbreaking discovery points to a new route to create thermal superconductors
The relentless increase in heat loads imposed on devices in modern technologies is driving renewed interest among engineers and materials scientists in the area of heat transfer. A key challenge is finding approaches to enhance the materials’ capability of conducting heat. A team of engineers led by Vanderbilt mechanical engineering Professor Deyu Li and his... Read MoreApr 16, 2021