Stephen Doster

Four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Jason Isbell will talk about the impact of COVID-19 on addiction and sobriety and the intersection of sobriety, addiction and music in the next Lab-to-Table Conversation—a monthly series organized by the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction… Read More

Disruption of the gut microbiota, for example by antibiotics, allows the bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) to colonize and cause disease. C. diff is the leading cause of hospital-associated intestinal infections in the U.S., but the mechanisms of colonization are unclear.  Eric Skaar, PhD,… Read More

Jeffrey Conn, Lee E. Limbird Chair and professor of pharmacology, is among 16 scientists named 2021 fellows of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Selection as a fellow of ASPET is an honor bestowed on members who have demonstrated excellence… Read More

By Mariana Byndloss If I could define Zach in one word, it would be LIGHT. Zach brought LIGHT to the world around him with his kindness, open mind and his way of accepting others and always seeing the good in people. And the funniest thing about it is that… Read More

Sep. 21, 2021, 8:00 AM by Shivani Sharma Loss of polarity, the orientation of apical and basolateral surfaces of the epithelial cells that line most internal organs and body cavities, usually occurs early in cancer and is considered a consequence of malignant… Read More

Vanderbilt is ranked 14th among national universities for a second consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges rankings. The university also was recognized as a best value and for the quality of its undergraduate teaching. Vanderbilt ranked eighth on the publication’s list of Best Value Schools,… Read More

Two outstanding women scholars in the same Vanderbilt engineering department have been elected presidents of prestigious national academic societies. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is president-elect of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics that serves 257,000 constituents from 173 countries. Cynthia Reinhart-King is president-elect of the Biomedical Engineering Society,… Read More

By Aaron Conley “This work clearly demonstrates a much more sophisticated role for this neurotransmitter than was previously appreciated, and it means we need to rethink models of addiction that depend on the dopamine/drug reward mentality.” THE IDEA Pioneering research shows that dopamine levels increase in response to stressful stimuli,… Read More

In late August of this year, Dr. Bill Sutherland visited the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences dean, Larry Marnett, and Dr. Nancy Carrasco, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, to donate materials from the life of his father, Nobel laureate Dr. Earl Sutherland. Read More

Research led by Dylan Burnette, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, and first-author Abigail Neininger, a graduate student in the Burnette lab, identified the Hippo pathway as a key regulator of heart muscle cell division, which has large translational implications for treatments after a heart attack. Their article was… Read More