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For John Jumper, BS’07, the road to winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry began with an interdisciplinary education at Vanderbilt. Read More

Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan delivered a captivating talk as part of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture Series. His presentation was based on his best-selling book, Why We Die, which explores the biological mechanisms behind aging and death and humanity's efforts to prolong life. Read More

Mirazul Islam, a graduate student in the lab of Professor Ken Lau, has developed a molecular clock that records the timing of cellular events at a single-cell resolution. Read More

In 2024 the National Institutes of Health awarded Sando a New Innovator Award, part of their High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. This award, which provides $1,500,000 over five years, supports early-career scientists proposing innovative and impactful research that might not get funded in the traditional peer-review process due to its inherent risk. Read More

Dr. Jumper’s work with AlphaFold2 represents an unprecedented step in the integration of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. John and his colleagues have given us inspiring evidence of its limitless potential for advancing scientific discovery. Read More

Calipari wins award for transforming scientists’ understanding of how behavioral circuits are dysregulated by long-term drug use and for her commitment to train and support the next generation of addiction scientists. Read More

The Center for Structural Biology in the School of Medicine Basic Sciences will be a hub of research innovation using Carterra’s platform in traditional and AI-driven workflows for characterizing both antibodies and other biomolecules Read More

Kate Mittendorf, a graduate of the biochemistry department who is now a research assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, sat down with us to discuss their experience studying basic science at Vanderbilt and how it played a role in their career. Read More

Christian de Caestecker, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Ian Macara, Louise B. McGavock Professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, proposed and validated a mechanism that solved a decades-old mystery: he shed light on the process by which epithelial cells, polarized cells that face the outside world, sort and deliver the specialized proteins they need at each cell’s poles. Read More