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Three biomedical research students win the inaugural Life is Beautiful Image Contest for their stunning scientific images. Read More

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year grant through the NIH’s flagship T32 institutional training grant program. T32 grants provide funding to support students and postdoctoral trainees working in focused areas of research that advance the NIH mission. Read More

Meet Mary Gray Lindstrom, program manager for the career development ASPIRE program and the ASPIRE Path in Molecular Medicine in the Office of Biomedical Research and Training Education. Read More

Vanderbilt’s ASPIRE program recently hosted its yearly career symposium, bringing biomedical science professionals, including biomedical sciences alums, to speak about their jobs and share diverse career pathways available to our trainees. Read More

In a recent episode of Smarter Every Day, YouTube sensation and host Destin Sandlin talks with Vanderbilt Professor Tina Iverson and Senior Research Associate Prashant Singh about bacterial “motors” and how they work in the microorganisms that make us sick. The video racked up more than 1.4 million views in its first day. Read More

Randy Perera, Fellow'24, who worked in the biochemistry department and is now a scientist at the pharmaceutical and biotech company MilliporeSigma (Merck KGaA) sat down with us to discuss his experience studying basic science at Vanderbilt and how it played a role in his career.  Read More

Davies, Ihrie, and Iverson receive funding injections from Vanderbilt University to spur world-class research with translational promise. Read More

The burning sensation you feel in your mouth when you sip alcohol has a name: oral chemesthesis. Understanding this sensation better could lead to new treatments for alcohol use disorders, but research in this area is scarce. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Cody Siciliano aims to change that with his project, “Neural Mechanisms of Oral Chemesthesis,” which has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. Read More

To honor and continue Richard Caprioli’s legacy of teaching technological advances, the Richard Caprioli Basic Sciences Research Award for Technology Education fund has been established to allow Ph.D. students in the biomedical sciences to attend focused educational experiences in a technology that they would otherwise not encounter in their graduate studies. Read More