Timothy Sterling, MD, professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), has received a five-year, $5.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to investigate how Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads from person to person.

VUMC researchers, including Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Drs. Fabian Bock, Roy Zent and colleagues, have discovered that a protein called Rac1 acts like a molecular switch to promote tubule repair.

It was recently announced that Department of Medicine Cardiology Drs. Jamie Pfaff and Kathryn Sunthankar will receive the 2026 David C. Leach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) at the February 2026 Annual ACGME Educational Conference.

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, a physician-scientist at VUMC whose research has helped establish delirium as an important risk factor for long-term brain dysfunction in critically ill patients, has been invested as a member in the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

The study was published in JAMA Dermatology by Infectious Disease colleagues, Drs. Elizabeth Phillips and Michelle Martin-Pozo.