Infectious diseases specialist Patty Wright, MD, professor of Medicine and chief of staff for Adult Ambulatory Services for Davidson County, is one of two recipients of the 2022 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA…
The Discovery Scholars program was launched in 2020 with funding from the Brock Family Directorship in Career Development Endowment to support the recruitment and development of talented early-career basic scientists.
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, Chair of the VUMC Department of Medicine, is one of three Vanderbilt faculty members elected this year to membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a prestigious, non-governmental organization that advises the nation and the world on important aspects of…
Sara Horst, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine, has been named associate vice chair for Digital Health Operations for the Department of Medicine and assistant chief for Clinical Informatics for the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Andrew Terker, MD, PhD, a physician scientist at VUMC, has received an award that will provide $250,000 in direct research costs annually for up to five years from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.
Wesley Self, MD, MPH, a physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named co-principal investigator (co-PI) of Vanderbilt’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) is celebrating its 49th year of continual operation with the five-year competitive renewal of a $10.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (…
A chance opportunity to visit a friend in Nashville and give a lecture led David Raiford, MD, to Vanderbilt University Medical Center more than three decades ago. He has been here ever since.
A Grand Opening Town Hall to introduce the VUMC Biospecimen Storage Facility to Vanderbilt researchers will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. Sept. 15 in 202 Light Hall. Those attending can sign up to tour the off-campus facility.
Kirabo and her colleagues have been exploring the novel role of immune cells in salt-sensitive hypertension. They have now discovered that activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome — a protein complex involved in the inflammatory response — in immune cells contributes to salt-sensitive hypertension…
