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By Alexandra Fuller By the time March rolls around, New Year’s resolutions to ditch the expensive lattes and spend less time (and money) shopping online are often far behind us. Activity within the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain implicated in motivation and addiction, may be at play. Read More

Dec. 10, 2020, 10:15 AM by Bill Snyder While COVID-19 grabs the headlines, researchers are steadily making progress in the fight against other dangerous viruses. Among them: Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV), one of the most virulent viruses in North America, and the Hendra and Nipah viruses, which are endemic… Read More

by Leigh MacMillan Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have identified a key molecular player in the early events of the inflammatory response to infection. The findings suggest new therapeutic possibilities for enhancing the inflammatory response to protect against pathogens and for blocking inflammation gone awry in diseases like arthritis and… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Dec. 8, 2020, 9:00 AM David Cortez, Richard N. Armstrong Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry and professor of biochemistry, has been named interim chair in the Department of Biochemistry beginning Jan. 1.   John York (Vanderbilt University) David Cortez (Vanderbilt University) This follows the departure of John York, who was recently named chief science… Read More

To understand how SARS-CoV-2 replicates, Vanderbilt scientists look at host cell-virus interactions by Marissa Shapiro Dec. 7, 2020, 9:00 AM Graduate students Jonathan Davies and Katie Almasy work in Lars Plate Chemistry and Biological Sciences Lab in Stevenson Science Center. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) A… Read More

Vanderbilt University professor plans to expand and diversify the journal’s editorial board by Linda Wang DECEMBER 4, 2020 Craig W. Lindsley, the William K. Warren, Jr. chair in medicine at Vanderbilt University, has been named editor in chief of the Journal… Read More

Vanderbilt microscopist receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to expand access to imaging technologies by Marissa Shapiro Dec. 2, 2020, 11:00 AM Bryan Millis (Vanderbilt University) Bryan Millis, research assistant professor of cell and developmental biology and biomedical engineering, has been awarded a grant… Read More

Dec. 2, 2020, 11:18 AM by Bill Snyder Researchers in the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) have received a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop “deep tissue” imaging methods that can peer into the furthest corners of the body. Through the application… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Nov. 17, 2020, 12:00 PM Ancora Innovation LLC, a Deerfield Management company that supports Vanderbilt University’s innovative life science research, will fund further research into therapeutics for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited condition that damages peripheral nerves. This is the third Vanderbilt project… Read More

pair of Vanderbilt University researchers are focusing on proteins that may lead to an inside track on battling COVID-19. Envelope proteins—small membrane proteins—have an important yet unknown role in the development and virulence of multiple coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. “We know this is an important protein because its removal impedes the… Read More