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By Chuck Sanders When I was 13, my brother Scott (12) and I joined our neighbors Matha (12) and Jay (10) on a trip to their family cottage on the bank of the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania. I had fantasized about this trip for months; I… Read More

The Chazin lab used a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry, computational modelling, and cell-based techniques are used to interrogate the relationship between NEIL1 and RPA. Read More

Quincy Hall describes the experience of arriving on the West Coast as an out-of-state junior college student: “…that’s where the grit comes from. When you have no food. You’ve got to get your own food. No cafeteria. No study hall. None of that. You find out how to be a dog by yourself.” Read More

Through the ASPIRE on the Road program, the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training office took 12 biomedical trainees from Vanderbilt University to explore Boston’s small and large biotech companies. Read More

By Chuck Sanders, vice dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and professor of biochemistry Joseph Lee Heywood was acquainted with suffering. Having grown up on the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, as a young man he made his way west to Iowa in search of opportunity. However, before things could… Read More

The new award celebrates the scientific relationship between  a mentor and trainee pair by providing them with $4,000 to attend a national conference in the trainee's research field. Read More

“Looking back, the trip did exactly what I hoped it would: It exposed me to the vast array of career paths available to graduate students like me, from R&D and business management to investing and consulting. The connections I made with my peers, various speakers, and Vanderbilt alums are invaluable as I think about  what’s my next step,” said Amy Tran. Read More