Research, News & Discoveries

Vanderbilt researchers awarded one of NSF’s 24 new projects to drive future manufacturing One of the challenges of drug delivery systems is to optimize their targeting properties so therapeutic compounds used in smaller amounts reach only a specific area of the body and result in little or no side effects. Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Oct. 6, 2020, 9:00 AM A Vanderbilt team of experts in virology, genetics, structural biology, chemistry, physiology, medicine, immunology and pharmacology have together developed technology to understand and predict animal susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the scientific name for the strain of coronavirus… Read More

Oct. 5, 2020, 8:00 AM by Sarah Glass Diabetic patients can develop kidney disease since high levels of glucose damage blood vessels, prompting accumulation of scarred tissue with reduced kidney function. Recent studies have suggested that progressive interstitial fibrosis in the renal proximal tubule is an important mediator in the… Read More

By Lorena Infante Lara Scott Hiebert, Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry, will serve as acting chair for the National Cancer Advisory Board. Originally appointed by President Barack Obama… Read More

Sep. 24, 2020, 9:19 AM by Bill Snyder Cody Siciliano, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund to support his studies of the neural substrates of… Read More

Dr. Charles R. Sanders is Professor of Biochemistry, holder of the Aileen M. Lange & Annie Mary Lyle Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Associate Dean for Research in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences.  Dr. Sanders is interested in determining the molecular biophysical mechanisms by which… Read More

Sep. 17, 2020, 9:00 AM by Leigh MacMillan Acinetobacter baumannii — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia — is becoming more prevalent and resistant to antibiotics.  The outer membrane of A. baumannii and other Gram-negative bacteria provides a barrier against host and antibiotic stresses and is maintained by the Mla system, which has been proposed as a target for antimicrobial drug development. … Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Sep. 14, 2020, 9:00 AM In collaboration with Australian and Italian geneticists, Vanderbilt University researchers Mukhtar Ahmed, research assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, graduate student Christian de Caestecker and Ian Macara, professor and chair of the Department… Read More

Sep. 10, 2020, 8:38 AM by Paul Govern   Angela Jefferson, PhD, and colleagues are establishing an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at VUMC. (photo by Avery Haller) Angela Jefferson, PhD, professor of Neurology and director of the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, has been awarded a $3.7… Read More

Sep. 10, 2020, 8:38 AM by Paul Govern   Angela Jefferson, PhD, and colleagues are establishing an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at VUMC. (photo by Avery Haller) Angela Jefferson, PhD, professor of Neurology and director of the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center, has been awarded a $3.7… Read More