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By Lorena Infante Lara Scott Hiebert, Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry, will serve as acting chair for the National Cancer Advisory Board. Originally appointed by President Barack Obama… Read More

Sep. 24, 2020, 9:19 AM by Bill Snyder Cody Siciliano, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund to support his studies of the neural substrates of… Read More

Sep. 24, 2020, 9:19 AM by Bill Snyder Cody Siciliano, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund to support his studies of the neural substrates of… Read More

Dr. Charles R. Sanders is Professor of Biochemistry, holder of the Aileen M. Lange & Annie Mary Lyle Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Associate Dean for Research in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences.  Dr. Sanders is interested in determining the molecular biophysical mechanisms by which… Read More

Sep. 17, 2020, 9:00 AM by Leigh MacMillan Acinetobacter baumannii — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia — is becoming more prevalent and resistant to antibiotics.  The outer membrane of A. baumannii and other Gram-negative bacteria provides a barrier against host and antibiotic stresses and is maintained by the Mla system, which has been proposed as a target for antimicrobial drug development. … Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Sep. 14, 2020, 9:00 AM In collaboration with Australian and Italian geneticists, Vanderbilt University researchers Mukhtar Ahmed, research assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, graduate student Christian de Caestecker and Ian Macara, professor and chair of the Department… Read More

Sep. 10, 2020, 8:38 AM by Paul Govern   Angela Jefferson, PhD, and colleagues are establishing an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at VUMC. (photo by Avery Haller) Angela Jefferson, PhD, professor of Neurology and director of the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, has been awarded a $3.7… Read More

Sep. 10, 2020, 8:38 AM by Paul Govern   Angela Jefferson, PhD, and colleagues are establishing an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at VUMC. (photo by Avery Haller) Angela Jefferson, PhD, professor of Neurology and director of the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, has been awarded a $3.7… Read More

By Sohini Roy People with type 1 diabetes generate little to no insulin, which promotes the absorption of glucose from the blood. The transcriptional coregulator Swi-independent 3 — or Sin3 — switches on and off the genes that drive crucial biological processes during prenatal development, including cellular differentiation, maturation, survival, metabolism,… Read More

By Natalya Ortolano Myosin motors and long actin filaments accumulate at the center of dividing cells to constrict the membrane. When a bouncy ball deforms under the weight of your body, its rubber membrane stretches and contracts. Likewise, the membrane of a cell doubling itself prior to division must accommodate… Read More