Stephen Doster

Maria Fomicheva (Kaverina lab) is featured in the April 20, 2021 issue of Oncology Times. CRISPR (which stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) is a genome screening tool that allows researchers to edit or delete individual genes—as well as identify the specific genes in the body responsible… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Apr. 16, 2021, 9:00 AM By Miquéla Thornton Steven Townsend (Vanderbilt University) Assistant Professor of Chemistry Steven D. Townsend has been awarded the 2021 David Y. Gin Young Investigator Award by the American Chemical Society. The award is one… Read More

Apr. 15, 2021, 9:30 AM by Bill Snyder Integrins serve as adhesion receptors for proteins in the extracellular matrix and transduce biochemical signals into the cell. They regulate cell functions including migration, proliferation and apoptosis (programmed cell death).   The ILK-PINCH-parvin protein complex (IPP) functions as an intracellular signaling platform for integrins… Read More

Apr. 15, 2021, 9:00 AM by Leigh MacMillan The potassium channel KCNQ1 plays a critical role in the cardiac action potential — the electrical activity underlying heart muscle contraction. Inherited mutations resulting in loss of channel function or gain of function (GOF) cause heart rhythm abnormalities.  Charles Sanders,… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Apr. 13, 2021, 9:00 AM Pioneering research from Vanderbilt scientists shows that cells respond differently to acute stress than to gradual stress. The findings establish an entirely new way to look at cell-to-cell communication, or signaling, and may fundamentally change how… Read More

Apr. 9, 2021, 8:00 AM Alissa Guarnaccia, Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology, School of Medicine Basic Sciences (Vanderbilt University) Alissa Guarnaccia is jumping into a highly sought-after research career to help find treatments for cancer at the cellular level. But lately she’s taking time to write lots of thank-you… Read More

Apr. 8, 2021, 8:55 AM by Bill Snyder Cancer specialists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in partnership with biochemists and structural biologists across the Vanderbilt University campus, are taking “personalized” cancer therapy to a new level. Benjamin Brown, left, Jens Meiler, PhD, Zhenfang Du, PhD, and colleagues are studying the… Read More

by Ann Marie Deer Owens Apr. 8, 2021, 1:30 PM Dr. James Crowe Jr., professor of medicine, in his lab at Medical Research Building IV. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Dr. James E. Crowe Jr., a physician-scientist on the front lines of global research… Read More

Apr. 7, 2021, 10:00 AM From left, Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, Bradley Reinfeld, Matthew Madden and Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, have discovered that immune cells — not cancer cells — are the major glucose consumers in the tumor microenvironment, upending a century-old observation. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Leigh MacMillan Tumors… Read More

The Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award, established in honor of Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt upon his retirement in 2000, recognizes faculty accomplishments that span multiple academic disciplines. Denison, Edward Claiborne Stahlman Professor of Pediatric Physiology and Cell Metabolism and one of the world’s foremost experts on coronaviruses,… Read More