Research

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    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 More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    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 More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    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 More

    May 12, 2021

  • Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    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 More

    May 7, 2021

  • Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    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 More

    May 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 More

    May 6, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    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 More

    May 5, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    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 More

    May 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 More

    May 4, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    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 More

    May 3, 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 More

    Apr 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 More

    Apr 29, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    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 More

    Apr 28, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    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 More

    Apr 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 More

    Apr 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 More

    Apr 19, 2021

  • Engineers’ groundbreaking discovery points to a new route to create thermal superconductors

    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 More

    Apr 16, 2021

  • Engineers’ groundbreaking discovery points to a new route to create thermal superconductors

    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 More

    Apr 16, 2021

  • Human kidney cross section on scientific background. 3d illustration

    New insights into kidney development

    Integrin-linked kinase, a central component of a complex that coordinates cell signaling involved in migration, proliferation and cell death, plays a role in kidney development and epithelial cell function. Read More

    Apr 15, 2021

  • Digital illustration of heart in an x-ray of a human chest

    Arrhythmia culprit: supertrafficking ion channel

    Charles Sanders, PhD, and colleagues show how a “supertrafficking” mutant potassium channel contributes to heart rhythm abnormalities. Read More

    Apr 15, 2021