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By Herschel Pollard, edited by Marissa Shapiro and Lorena Infante Lara Vanderbilt University has received an $8.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Vanderbilt AUD Research and Education Center, bolstering the university’s leadership in neuroscience, addiction research, and innovative approaches to the study of alcohol… Read More

By Emily Hawes and Lorena Infante Lara The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences encompasses four departments: Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Pharmacology. Through this article series, we are featuring each one, highlighting their proudest accomplishments, unique strengths, and visions for the future. A… Read More

Alan Cherrington (Photo by Jamie McCormick) For more than 50 years, Vanderbilt has been a global leader in the quest to understand, prevent, and treat diabetes By Rachel Nuwer Alan Cherrington still clearly remembers the day that unexpectedly led him to what is today the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic… Read More

Dean John Kuriyan (Photo by John Russell) Dear Alums and Friends, In the previous issue of Vestigo, we paused to look back at 150 years of innovative research. In this issue, we look ahead to new and amazing research breakthroughs coming out of our laboratories and their potential impact in… Read More

There's a tendency to view the past as a "failed" state, assuming that evolution drives toward optimization. This isn't necessarily true. There is a vast, complex history we have yet to fully understand—and we should strive to uncover it. Read More

Edna St. Vincent Millay A mini-anthology compiled by Chuck Sanders, Vice Dean, School of Medicine Basic Sciences Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892, and she and her two sisters were raised in near poverty by their mother in Maine. Having placed in a national poetry competition at 20,… Read More

Charles Darwin, serenely composed in anticipation of the Voyage of the Beagle. The intrepid CEO of The Protein Society, Raluca Cadar, again used her special Carpathian “connections” to set up our Annual TPS Halloween interview, this year with none other than Charles Darwin.  We listen in on his conversation with… Read More

Coffey and Lau plan to uncover the mechanistic underpinnings of supermeres in the tumor microenvironment, look for other immune exclusion biomarkers, and evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy when immune exclusion proteins are targeted. Read More

Photo by Kate Joyce and Santa Fe Institute Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England Group Leader “Why We Die” Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:00 p.m., 208 Light Hall A reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Langford Auditorium atrium. Abstract:… Read More