A research team led by investigators at VUMC, including Department of Medicine Dr. Jennifer (Piper) Below (Genetic Medicine), has identified a set of inflammatory genes that contribute to severe obesity.
Effective April 1, Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, will lead VGI, the intellectual hub for genomics research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University.
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.
Numerous additions and appointments during the past year are enhancing Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s missions.
With funding from the newly established Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation, the researchers hope to identify biomarkers that will point to novel targets for prevention and treatment.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including Department of Medicine Drs. Alex Bick (senior author), Brett Heimlich, Brent Ferrell, Ashwin Kishtagari and Michael Savona, have identified key factors that contribute to the clonal growth of abnormal blood cells experienced by roughly one in 10 people over age 70.
Kimberlyn Ellis, a graduate student in the Training Program in Human Genetics, has been selected as the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.
Five Department of Medicine faculty are among the 17 leaders across VUMC honored for their expertise in clinical care, research, education and administration.
VUMC researchers including Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, with the Division of Genetic Medicine, have developed a genetic method that clusters distantly related people to find rare variants that were present in a common ancestor.
A real-world learning health system was established at VUMC a decade ago. Now, the National Human Genome Research Institute is awarding two five-year grants totaling $12 million to support VUMC’s participation in, and coordination of, a genomic-enabled learning health system (gLHS) network.
