Six junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows, including four from the Department of Medicine, have been appointed this year to the Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars (VFRS) program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, has received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
A new tool to identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness could aid pediatricians in prioritizing children under 1 to receive a preventive medication before RSV season (October-April).
Julie Bastarache, MD, Assistant Vice President for Clinical & Translational Scientist Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for 2024-2025.
An international research team co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center has revealed how variations in gene regulation in different cell types drive pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive respiratory disorder characterized by scarring and loss of functional lung tissue.
Anna Hemnes, MD, professor of Medicine, has been named director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, physician-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Lung Institute and director of the Center for Lung Research.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is working with scientists around the U.S. to launch the first phase 3, multicenter, placebo-controlled trial to determine the effect of immunomodulation on Long COVID (LC), also known as long-haul COVID or post-acute sequelae of COVID-19. The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging.
Timothy Blackwell, MD, Rudy W. Jacobson Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, is leaving Vanderbilt University Medical Center to chair the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He assumes his new role on March 1.
Margaret Salisbury, MD, MS, a leader in the study and treatment of interstitial lung diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the Council of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for “notable achievements” in research.
Vanderbilt's Stokes Peebles, MD, has been appointed to the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council.
