Marissa Shapiro

Bruce Carter, Lisa Monteggia, Richard O’Brien, Andrea Page-McCaw, and Kevin Schey have been named endowed chairs, the highest academic award that Vanderbilt can give to a faculty member. Read More

The team prompted the chatbot to review the biomedical research literature and suggest 20 drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, ranking them for potential effectiveness. With a second prompt they asked for confirmation of the initial 20 suggestions. They repeated both prompts 10 times. Read More

ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Fellow Catherine Leasure identifies the issues plaguing drug development. Leasure and Gregor Neuert argue that conventional dose-response studies fail to mirror the complex reality of how drugs behave in the human body. Read More

The World Health Organization ranks antimicrobial resistance as one of the top ten global health risks. Vanderbilt researchers led by Houra Merrikh identified the first anti-evolution compound that targets AMR during treatment of infections with antibiotics. Read More

Led by Terunaga Nakagawa, an international collaboration describes for the first time the fundamental mechanism underpinning cellular processes that lead to learning and memory. Read More

A research endeavor that seeks to develop a new cancer immunotherapy utilizing nanobody delivery and targeted heating of tumors has received funding from the Waddell Walker Hancock Cancer Discovery Fund. Read More

Class of 2024: See how Ph.D. candidate Kaitlyn Browning wants to fight miscommunication and misinformation around science. Read More

A multidisciplinary research team at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has discovered a new way to kill a tumor by disrupting its acidic “microenvironment” without harming normal tissue. The target of this unorthodox approach is hydroxyapatite (HAP), a naturally occurring mineral that is a major component of bone and teeth, but which also is produced by some tumors. Read More

Venkatesh proposes journal club design framework to enhance training and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read More

Join the next Lab-to-Table conversation, “Picturing Progress: Representation in Scientific Art” on Feb. 20 at 11:00 a.m. Read More