Research, News & Discoveries

by Spencer Turney Sep. 13, 2019, 6:00 AM New research from a group of Vanderbilt biomedical engineers reveals that while cancer cells move quickly in metastasis, they’re rather lazy in which paths they choose. According to the researchers, migrating cancer cells decide which path… Read More

Sep. 5, 2019, 10:00 AM by Leigh MacMillan Salt-sensitive hypertension affects about half of people with high blood pressure, but the precise mechanism of how dietary salt contributes to blood pressure elevation, kidney injury and cardiovascular disease remains unclear. Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, and colleagues recently… Read More

by Ann Marie Deer Owens Sep. 20, 2019, 8:29 AM (L to r) Rogers Hall, Sandra Simmons, Sean Seymore, Nancy Carrasco, Sarah Igo, Mattias Polborn, Peter Rousseau, David Merryman and Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s eight… Read More

Guengerich, Sanders-Bush named ASPET fellows Sep. 20, 2019, 11:02 AM by Bill Snyder Vanderbilt University’s F. Peter (Fred) Guengerich, PhD, and Elaine Sanders-Bush, PhD, are among 22 prominent scientists named this week to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). In… Read More

Sep. 12, 2019, 10:06 AM by Bill Snyder A course that provides biomedical scientists-in-training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with the essentials of data science has won second place in the 2019 Innovations in Research and Research Education Award program sponsored by the American Association of Medical Colleges… Read More

The plus and minus of microtubules Sep. 5, 2019, 9:00 AM by Bill Snyder The September issue of the Journal of Cell Biology featured the research of Marija Zanic and colleagues on the cover. The image is a montage of dynamic microtubule extensions (teal) grown in vitro from stabilized microtubule… Read More

Zebrafish aid effort to regenerate damaged retinas Sep. 5, 2019, 8:59 AM by Bill Snyder The tiny zebrafish may hold the secret to regenerating damaged retinas in humans, Vanderbilt University researchers reported last week in the journal Cell Reports. Currently there are few effective treatments for retinal degenerative diseases… Read More

Aug. 27, 2019, 8:30 AM by Sanjay Mishra WNT signaling pathways play important roles in cell growth, development and cancer.The classical or “canonical” WNT pathway and its atypical, “non-canonical” counterpart share a protein called DVL2 that “transduces” or converts one kind of signal to another. Now Jason MacGurn,… Read More

Aug. 26, 2019, 4:07 PM Jordan Berlin, MD, left, and Robert Coffey, MD, lead the Gastrointestinal Specialized Program of Research Excellence. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Tom Wilemon Colorectal cancer researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) have been awarded a Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant from the National Cancer… Read More

Tina Iverson (Pharmacology) and Vito Quaranta (Biochemistry) are stepping up to bat for students in the Quantitative and Chemical Biology (QCB) Program. They have recently been named Director and Associate Director, respectively, of the QCB, and will be taking over from Hassane Mchaourab (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics), who served as director since… Read More