Reporter Jan 22 2016

The elasticity of a scaffold used for healing skin wounds is a key factor in promoting regeneration versus scarring. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators report an improved model for estimating brain health, using MRI. Read More

An enzyme that builds DNA is able to insert the wrong building blocks, which could generate mutations. Read More

Due to inclement weather, delivery of today’s print issue of the VUMC Reporter has been postponed until Monday, Jan. 25. Read More

A Vanderbilt patient who has battled leukemia for nearly five years was granted a private screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” thanks to her medical providers and a local movie theater. Read More

There may be a “silver bullet” for Ebola, a family of hemorrhagic viruses, one of which has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in the past two years. Read More

Certain protein factors have been identified as attractive targets for treating diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in adults. Read More

The brains of children who are obese function differently from those of children of healthy weight, and exhibit an “imbalance” between food-seeking and food-avoiding behaviors, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found. Read More

It was while inside a loud and odoriferous chromium metal plating shop that Stephanie Spottswood first considered a career in medicine. Read More

Carmen Solórzano, M.D., professor of Surgery and director of the Endocrine Surgery Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has been named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery in the Department of Surgery. Read More

Karen Hughart, MSN, R.N., has been named senior director of Nursing Informatics, where she will lead the nursing enterprise in implementing new clinical systems in a partnership with clinical leaders throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Read More

As a child in Africa, Rita Adeniran, DNP, R.N., had never heard of Martin Luther King Jr. Read More

Christine Lovly, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, has been awarded a V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials cut the ribbon at Tuesday’s open house celebrating the debut of Vanderbilt Health’s new Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic. Read More

Alvin Powers, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has been named president-elect, Medicine and Science, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for 2016. Read More

Roderick Little, Ph.D., a statistician with expertise in the analysis of data sets with missing values, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 28. Read More

Dora Angelaki, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine, explored a computational perspective on autism at her recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have developed a way to detect malaria that is faster and more sensitive than current clinical methods — a development that has the potential to make malaria detection significantly less expensive and more stable. Read More

BethAnn McLaughlin, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been invited to serve as a reviewing editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, the flagship publication of the Society of Neuroscience, one of the world’s largest scientific societies. Read More

Christin Ayre, MSN, R.N., has been named the associate director of the Vanderbilt Patient Flow Center, effective Feb. 1. Read More