Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Calgary have devised a new approach for conducting gene-based analyses for cancer susceptibility that outperforms existing models.
For 100 years, it has been thought that vasopressin — a hormone that regulates water and blood pressure homeostasis — is only produced in the brain.
Flu season came a month early this year in Tennessee and hit hard, disproportionately affecting children, according to Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tennessee Department of Health and Vanderbilt University Medical…
Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a molecular mechanism that promotes chronic kidney disease following kidney injury.
Fabian Bock, MD, PhD, a young physician scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, won two awards at the Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists, presented virtually by the American Society of Nephrology and American Physiological Society.
Vanderbilt Genetics Institute investigators co-led the largest transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) to date. TWAS is a computational genetics methodology that integrates genetic variation, gene expression and diseases or other traits.
The GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer has recognized Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research and associate professor of Medicine, with the 2022 Asclepios Award, which recognizes lung cancer research pioneers.
Tuya Pal, MD, and colleagues evaluated surgical treatment in 684 adult females with breast cancer and a confirmed mutation in BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM or CHEK2, who were enrolled in the Inherited Cancer Registry.
Our data show that α-myosin is a disease-relevant autoantigen in patients with immunotherapy-related myocarditis said the study’s lead author, Margaret Axelrod, PhD, a Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program student who completed her PhD in Balko’s Lab.
Wanqing Wen, MD, MPH, and colleagues conducted a study to determine associations of urinary PGE-M levels with mortality in 2,927 noncancerous adults in the Shanghai Women’s Health Study and Shanghai Men’s Health Study, two ongoing prospective cohort studies conducted in Shanghai, China.
