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by Ryan Underwood May. 5, 2020, 2:00 PM New gift establishes the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery to support pharmaceutical breakthroughs Vanderbilt University received $20 million from The William K. Warren Foundation, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to establish the Warren… Read More

By Beth Bowman and Lorena Infante Lara Recruiting for Fall 2020 admission in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and the Quantitative and Chemical Biology program wrapped up earlier this month with a banner year. Both umbrella programs saw an increase in the number and… Read More

Apr. 16, 2020, 11:00 AM by Leigh MacMillan The cotransporter NKCC1 moves sodium, potassium and chloride ions across the cell membrane of many cell types, including intestinal epithelial cells. Two patients with mutations in NKCC1 suffered from severe intestinal dysfunction and chronic infections.  To explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the… Read More

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-web/medschool-wpcontent/sites/64/2020/04/24143926/Lacy_Website.mp4   By Sara Eaton C. diff is responsible for 50% of gastrointestinal infections in hospitals but cause over 90% of GI tract infection-related deaths. © Kateryna_Kon, stock.adobe.com Gastrointestinal infections often cause damage to the stem cells in the colon’s epithelium, a thin layer of… Read More

By Lorena Infante Lara Manuel Ascano, Department of Biochemistry, and Marija Zanic, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has established a new Dean’s Faculty Fellows program designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their career. The award targets assistant… Read More

By Lorena Infante Lara Manuel Ascano, Department of Biochemistry, and Marija Zanic, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has established a new Dean’s Faculty Fellows program designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their career. The award targets assistant… Read More

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Apr. 16, 2020, 1:00 PM by Leigh MacMillan Mechanical properties of the cell cortex — a thin network of actin filaments under the cell membrane — regulate shape changes during cell division, cell migration and tissue development. Two forms of the molecular motor myosin-II participate in organizing and remodeling the… Read More

Apr. 9, 2020, 10:52 AM The extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer team includes, from left, Jeffrey Franklin, PhD, Yu Shyr, PhD, Qi Liu, PhD, Alissa Weaver, MD, PhD, James Higginbotham, PhD, and James Patton, PhD. Not pictured: Robert Coffey, MD, Kasey Vickers, PhD, and John Karijolich, PhD. (photo by Erin… Read More

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-web/medschool-wpcontent/sites/64/2020/04/20165159/Goldenring_Website.mp4   By Sarah Glass Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in the U.S. © Crystal light, stock.adobe.com Clocking in at two pounds, the stomach is one of the body’s heaviest internal organs and can become afflicted with one of the leading causes of… Read More