Reporter Nov 7 2014

A new mouse model offers insight into the signaling pathways that control oral cancers – and a platform for testing anticancer therapeutics. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have used a computational biology approach to uncover new cancer drivers and biomarkers of anticancer drug response. Read More

An overactive stress response contributes to the development of insulin resistance in obese individuals, and blocking it may be therapeutically beneficial. Read More

The activity of a certain factor in immune cells is essential for an anti-tumor response, emphasizing the need to consider the effects of anti-cancer therapies on immune cells. Read More

In Tennessee, the introduction in 2010 of a new pneumococcal vaccine for infants and young children coincides with a 27 percent decline in pneumonia hospital admissions across the state among children under age 2. Read More

Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and chief of the Section of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago, has been appointed founding director of a new genetics institute at Vanderbilt University, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Read More

A nationwide research group headed by Vanderbilt University’s David Robertson, M.D., has received another round of funding from the federal government to continue studies of rare neurodegenerative diseases and disorders affecting blood pressure. Read More

Actor William Baldwin, center, was at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recently for the Rally for Kids with Cancer Scavenger Cup. Read More

Golf ball-sized gallstones camped out in Joseph Gray’s gallbladder had been causing him stomach discomfort for months. Read More

Cellular engineering pioneer George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., makes a point during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture at Vanderbilt. Daley directs the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Read More

Vanderbilt University Hospital earned the highest possible grade recently in a nationwide survey of hospital patient safety. Read More

Donald Brady, M.D., senior associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development, has been named to the board of directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for a three-year term. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center dietetic interns Dylan Caulder, left, and Hope Anderson offer tips on healthy eating and hand out samples of nutritious snacks to Vanderbilt University students and employees at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center as part of Food Day 2014. Read More

Vanderbilt’s biobank, BioVU, has begun to collect and store plasma, the liquid part of blood, to aid studies of diseases ranging from heart failure and hypertension to breast cancer. Read More

A new light-based technology is allowing scientists to peer deep into the brain and alter animal behavior with the “flip of a switch.” Read More

Vanderbilt University is part of a national effort to improve diabetes treatment by developing strategies for proliferating, regenerating and improving the function of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets. Read More

A multidisciplinary Vanderbilt team with deep experience in improving patient safety and technology usability has received a three-year, $800,000 Department of Energy grant to help nuclear power plant operators better perform their jobs. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos formally launched the new $50 million Trans-institutional Programs initiative outlined in the Academic Strategic Plan in an email to the Vanderbilt community earlier today. Read More

Tennessee government affairs veteran Nathan Green will join Vanderbilt University’s public affairs team Dec. 1 in the newly created position of assistant vice chancellor for state government relations. Read More