The Vanderbilt Transplant Center (VTC) performed 960 solid organ transplants in 2025, the most ever completed by a single center in one year in the United States.
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.
VUMC recently held a Directorship Celebration to honor 23 leaders, including seven in the Department of Medicine, from across the enterprise in clinical care, research, education and administration.
Carty’s research focuses on nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a rare kidney condition in which the body produces too much urine, leading to potentially dangerous dehydration.
Study shows that deletion of EGFR from myeloid cells accelerated recovery from acute kidney injury and reduced subsequent fibrosis.
In a preclinical study conducted by Dr. Lauren Woodard (Nephrology and Hypertension) and colleagues, stem cells isolated from the urine of healthy donors stimulated regeneration of acutely injured kidney tissue.
