Discoveries

Vanderbilt Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research members presented their research at the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles conference in Vienna, Austria in late April. Read More

The 2025 ASPIRE Annual Career Symposium brought together trainees and professionals for a day of panels, workshops, and a compelling keynote by AstraZeneca executive and Vanderbilt alum Renee Iacona, all centered around the evolving landscape of biomedical science careers and with a focus on innovation, artificial intelligence, and personal growth. Read More

Meet Tracy O’Brien, an administrative assistant in the Office of the Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Read More

Kaitlyn Browning, PhD’24, sat down with us to discuss her experience studying basic science at Vanderbilt and how it played a role in her career. Browning is now a scientific program analyst for the National Institutes of Health. Read More

At the annual VIRAL Research Symposium on April 18, associate professor of biochemistry Yi Ren reflected on her path as an international scientist as one of the event’s featured early-career speakers. Read More

In a new paper postdoctoral fellow Rong Sun and members of the Qiangjun Zhou lab used cryo-electron tomography to better understand the precise structural arrangement of synapses of excitatory primary hippocampal neurons. Read More

The Vanderbilt Brain Institute’s annual Brain Blast event, held March 26 at the downtown Nashville Public Library, celebrated 25 years of discovery with a day of hands-on neuroscience activities for K–8 students and families. Read More

Graduate students Atlee Witt, Ansley Kunnath, and Allie Lake are three of 100 doctoral students from across the U.S. and Canada to receive the P.E.O. Scholar Award in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. Read More

Corey Hayford, PhD’21, sat down with us to discuss his experience studying basic science at Vanderbilt and how it played a role in his career. Hayford is now a principal data engineer at Cellarity. Read More

A new study uncovered how tissues detect and respond to damage in basement membranes, and how they recruit a previously unknown set of "matrix mender" cells to repair the tissue. The results of this study have far-reaching implications for numerous diseases, including diabetes, dementia, and cancer. Read More