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Vanderbilt computer scientists develop community-based app for managing mobile privacy and security
Mamtaj Akter, a Vanderbilt computer science graduate student in the lab of Pamela Wisniewski, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of computer science, has co-authored a study evaluating how technology can help people manage mobile privacy and security as a community. Managing mobile privacy and security as an individual is a constant challenge. “We... Read MoreAug 3, 2023
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Vanderbilt computer scientists develop community-based app for managing mobile privacy and security
Mamtaj Akter, a Vanderbilt computer science graduate student in the lab of Pamela Wisniewski, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of computer science, has co-authored a study evaluating how technology can help people manage mobile privacy and security as a community. Managing mobile privacy and security as an individual is a constant challenge. “We... Read MoreAug 3, 2023
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Study finds hallmarks of T cell exhaustion within hours of tumor exposure
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 MoreAug 3, 2023
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Vanderbilt nurses named Tennessee Rising Star Nurse Leaders
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 MoreAug 3, 2023
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VUMC receives $28 million to lead national study of COVID-diabetes link
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 MoreAug 2, 2023
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VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness
A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). “Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and... Read MoreJul 31, 2023
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Nancy Cox receives American Society of Human Genetics Leadership Award
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 MoreJul 26, 2023
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Engineering undergraduate wins prestigious paper award, will present findings about radiation effects on electronics at conference in France
Isabella Wynocker will travel to Toulouse, France in September to present her work on radiation effects on memory drives in space environments as the only undergraduate researcher of five authors to win best student abstract awards for RADECS 2023. The RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems Conference (RADECS) is an annual international European... Read MoreJul 21, 2023
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Predicting gene expression may speed discovery: study
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 MoreJul 20, 2023
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Holowatyj receives National Cancer Institute MERIT Award
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 MoreJul 19, 2023
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Biomedical engineering professor leads study of novel technology that helps identify parathyroids during pediatric endocrine surgery
Damage or removal of calcium-regulating parathyroid glands during endocrine surgery can put children at risk for poor growth and slow mental development. Preserving the often rice-sized organ in children is vital, but not always easy. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Biomedical Engineering, is the lead investigator... Read MoreJul 19, 2023
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Biomedical engineering professor leads study of novel technology that helps identify parathyroids during pediatric endocrine surgery
Damage or removal of calcium-regulating parathyroid glands during endocrine surgery can put children at risk for poor growth and slow mental development. Preserving the often rice-sized organ in children is vital, but not always easy. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Biomedical Engineering, is the lead investigator... Read MoreJul 19, 2023
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Alzheimer’s genetic risk tracked across sex, race
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 MoreJul 17, 2023
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Osheroff wins prestigious MILES Award
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 MoreJul 7, 2023
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A team led by VINSE Deputy Director Jason Valentine and American soldiers have partnered to make service members invisible on the modern battlefield.
Vanderbilt engineers and American soldiers have partnered to make service members invisible on the modern battlefield. A team lead by VINSE Deputy Director, Jason Valentine, is designing innovative equipment that reduces soldiers’ detectability by thermal sensors, increasing their safety and operational effectiveness. Read MoreJul 7, 2023
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Regional consortium secures $18M grant to foster equity in agriculture workforce development
Janey Camp (Submitted photo) Janey Camp, research professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency, is part of a regional consortium that has won an $18 million grant to enable minority-serving institutions to build and sustain the next generation of the food, agriculture, natural resources and... Read MoreJul 7, 2023
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Study reveals new clue to gastric cancer
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have uncovered evidence of fibroblast cells' direct involvement in the development of gastric cancer. Read MoreJul 7, 2023
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Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs
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 MoreJul 5, 2023
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DeVane-Johnson receives NIH grant to address breastfeeding disparities
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 MoreJul 5, 2023
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ORAU Powe Award supports Vanderbilt researcher’s computational simulations of light, sound and bubbles
A Vanderbilt computer science professor studying sonoluminescence—a process by which light is emitted by small bubbles in liquid when bombarded by blasts of high-pitched sound—has received a competitive research grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. David Hyde, assistant professor of computer science, is one of 35 junior faculty nationwide to win a 2023 ORAU Ralph... Read MoreJun 30, 2023