Josh Denny

  • Workshop explores President’s Precision Medicine Initiative

    Workshop explores President’s Precision Medicine Initiative

    The Precision Medicine Initiative is a national effort announced by President Obama during his State of the Union address to provide more effective treatment and prevention strategies for individuals by taking into account their unique genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Read More

    Feb 19, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Building the World’s Largest Biomedical Informatics Enterprise

    Biomedical informatics is a science that draws connections between data and medicine, whether those data concern diseases, health care processes or human biology in the form of genomics and proteomics. Everyone who studies health records has the same goal: more precise medicine, leading to improved patient outcomes. Read More

    Sep 26, 2014

  • Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (left) and Faculty Senate Chair Paul Lim (right) present the 2014 Earl Sutherland Prize to Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)

    Landers, Fuchs win awards at Fall Faculty Assembly

    An international expert on slavery and emancipation during the 18th and 19th centuries was awarded the prestigious Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research during Vanderbilt University’s Fall Faculty Assembly. Read More

    Aug 22, 2014

  • American College of Medical Informatics honors Denny, Harris

    American College of Medical Informatics honors Denny, Harris

    Faculty members Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., associate professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, and Paul Harris, Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Informatics and research associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, are among six fellows elected this year to the American College of Medical Informatics. Read More

    Dec 12, 2013

  • Deciphering DNA code

    First-ever study uses EMRs to spot new disease associations

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network are repurposing genetic data and electronic medical records to perform the first large-scale phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), released today in Nature Biotechnology. Read More

    Dec 5, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Patients’ genetic data helps hone warfarin dosing

    Warfarin dosing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center just got safer and more effective. Read More

    Nov 1, 2012

  • Research makes case for prospective genotyping

    Research makes case for prospective genotyping

    Vanderbilt researchers are investigating the potential benefits of prospective genetic testing for drug safety. Read More

    Jul 19, 2012

  • Deciphering DNA code

    Study applies random genotype sets to new disease

    A new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, led by Vanderbilt researchers Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., and Dana Crawford, Ph.D., takes random volumes of human genotypes and matches them with data siphoned from de-identified medical records and sheds new light on the genetic basis of the common… Read More

    Jan 5, 2012