Veterans Administration

A team of Vanderbilt investigators developed a new method for rapidly generating heart muscle cells from stem cells. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt and Nashville VA researchers, led by Adriana Hung, M.D., MPH, has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to use the Million Veteran Program (MVP) data to conduct diabetes research. Read More

A series of experimental antibiotics may be a good starting point for developing new anticancer drugs. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers describe a new technique for identifying factors that stimulate the proliferation of pancreatic beta cells – factors that might offer therapeutic options for diabetes. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators used an in vivo screen in zebrafish to identify a potential new anti-cancer drug. Read More

A protein linked to aggressive bladder cancers could point to new strategies for treatment or prevention. Read More

Drugs that target “epigenetic” changes may help treat or slow the progression of lung cancer. Read More

Each year millions of Americans return to the hospital within 30 days of their previous discharge. Although many readmissions could be preventable, most statistical models for predicting them "perform poorly," according to researchers at Vanderbilt and the Oregon Health and Science University and their affiliated VA medical centers. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is important for renal function, blood pressure regulation and life span. Read More