Stephen Doster

Faculty Mentor of the Year Recipients of the Faculty Mentor of the Year award must demonstrate a willingness to share expertise and advice; service to the community at large, including other mentoring activities; and scholarship within the mentor’s own career, including publications, awards, presentations and honors. The Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association… Read More

May. 25, 2021, 2:00 PM The Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs announced its 2021 award winners at the Spring Postdoc Awards ceremony on May 24. Postdoc of the Year The Postdoc of the Year award recognizes a postdoctoral scholar who demonstrates excellence in research and… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro May. 24, 2021, 9:00 AM by Miquéla Thornton An international collaboration led by Vanderbilt researchers has found that a novel form of brain cell communication may influence brain function. The discovery was uncovered by Natalí L. Chanaday, postdoctoral scholar,… Read More

Lorena Infante Lara The School of Medicine’s umbrella Ph.D. programs, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences and the Quantitative and Chemical Biology program, recruited 67 and 19 incoming graduate students, respectively. The new students will arrive on campus in August to… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro May. 11, 2021, 9:00 AM THE IDEA A novel neuroimaging study provides the first evidence that a small region of the brain, called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, has gender-based network structural connectivity differences in early abstinence from alcohol. Read More

The 2021 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Outstanding Contributions to Research and Extraordinary Performance of Clinical Service were presented April 30 during the annual spring faculty meeting, held virtually this year via Zoom. The recipients are listed below: EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING   Recipient of… Read More

May. 6, 2021, 9:37 AM The team studying the regulation of innate immune response includes (front row, from left) Yang Zhao, PhD, Antiana Richardson, (back row, from left) William Dunker, Xiang Ye, PhD, and John Karijolich, PhD. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Leigh MacMillan A protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases… Read More

Apr. 29, 2021, 9:53 AM by Leigh MacMillan Aging is a primary risk factor for many chronic diseases. Strategies to slow the aging process and improve health have focused on limiting nutrients, but fasting is difficult.  Jason MacGurn, PhD, and colleagues including Robert Dickson, PhD, at the University of… Read More

by Vanderbilt News and Communications Apr. 28, 2021, 12:38 PM by Aaron Conley Drawing on personal experiences, Will Welch, the global editorial director of GQ, discussed COVID-19’s impact on addiction, sobriety and art with Danny Winder, director of the Vanderbilt… Read More

Lorena Infante Lara Roger Chalkley, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and senior associate dean for biomedical research education and training, will be retiring this summer. Chalkley, who has been at Vanderbilt since 1986, is also a co-PI of the Initiative for Maximizing Student… Read More