$20 million grant supports sweeping study of human viruses
The grant will help establish the Vanderbilt-coordinated Virus Characterization Center and support a Vanderbilt University Medical Center research team venturing to broadly characterize the role of viruses in human health and disease.
Bick, Kropski elected to ASCI
Department of Medicine Drs. Alexander Bick (Genetic Medicine) and Jonathan Kropski (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Spann, Shaver named to Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science Leadership Team
Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition), has been named the associate director of Transplant Research Informatics and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), has been named associate director for Translational Research.
Year in Review 2024: Appointments strengthen Medical Center’s missions
Numerous additions and appointments during the past year are enhancing Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s missions.
VUMC awarded $26.4 million for patient-centered research
Department of Medicine Drs. Russell Rothman, Jonathan Casey, Lyndsay Nelson and Lindsay Mayberry are principal investigators of four new awards totaling $26.4 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
VUMC to study effect of breathing tube size on breathing, speaking, swallowing
Jonathan Casey, MD, MSCI (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), is co-principal investigator of a recently funded study by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on breathing, speaking and swallowing after critical illness.
Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science Announces Leadership Team
The Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science is pleased to announce the appointments of Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI, as the Associate Director of Transplant Research Informatics, and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD, as the Associate Director for Translational Research. Johanna Cimilluca, MPH, MS, DrPH, will take on the role of Administrative Officer for the Center.
Studies to explore molecular drivers of pulmonary diseases
Three grants, totaling over $22 million, were awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and will be led by a team of VUMC investigators, including Department of Medicine Drs. Jonathan Kropski and Margaret Salisbury.
Study: Asthma drug does not speed COVID-19 recovery
Russell Rothman, MD, MPP (Internal Medicine and Public Health), is first author of a study recently published in JAMA Network Open that found montelukast, a drug commonly prescribed to prevent and treat asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, does not speed recovery from symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19.