Reducing dietary salt consumption is not a simple matter, however, cautioned the paper’s corresponding author, Deepak Gupta, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center (VTRACC). Leonie Dupuis, MD, a third-year resident physician in internal medicine at Vanderbilt Health, is first author of the paper.
Department of Medicine faculty Vineet Agrawal, MD, PhD and Aniket Rali, MD, were part of the team who performed the groundbreaking procedure this month.
Two faculty researchers in the Department of Medicine have received Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Vineet Agrawal, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine), and Fabian Bock, MD, PhD (Nephrology and Hypertension), are among 50 investigators nationwide selected for the 2026 Young Physician-Scientist Award by the elite honor society.
The collaboration will leverage VUMC’s resource platform, including its comprehensive datasets hosted in Vanderbilt’s BioVU collection of DNA and plasma to enable data-driven insights and to accelerate discovery and development.
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.
Vanderbilt Health has received accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Adult Congenital Transthoracic Echocardiography, joining a select group of organizations.
Eight Department of Medicine faculty are among the 27 new members elected to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Academy for Excellence in Clinical Medicine.
Among the patients transplanted this year were 16 children and more than 185 adults, 29 U.S. veterans, and 20 patients who received multiorgan transplants including 16 heart-kidney transplants, two heart-liver transplants and two heart-lung transplants.
