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    2024 Call for Applications – Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund

    The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences is soliciting 2024 applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen fund supports high-risk, ground-breaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. Read More

    Jul. 16, 2024

  • Vestigo Issue 1

    Vestigo Issue 1

    From the dean Basic science at Vanderbilt University: A Brief History A Nobel-worthy discovery spawns a new field—and new therapies Cell and Developmental Biology pushes the limits of cancer research Diabetes discoveries: Transforming understanding and care Pharmacology’s tradition of academic excellence and mentorship… Read More

    Apr. 18, 2024

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    Walter Chazin

      Walter Chazin, Ph.D., received a B.Sc. in chemistry from McGill University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kurt Wüthrich at the E.T.H. in Switzerland (2002 Nobel laureate in Chemistry). After 13… Read More

    Mar. 28, 2024

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    Vestigo Issue 5: Special Sesquicentennial Edition

    Dive into the sesquicentennial edition of Vestigo, the flagship publication for the School of Medicine Basic Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Issue 5 offers a treasure trove of articles that celebrate 150 years of groundbreaking research, discoveries, and the brilliant minds who have shaped the scientific landscape at Vanderbilt. Read More

    Mar. 7, 2024

  • The Rising Bar for High-impact Papers

    The Rising Bar for High-impact Papers

    By Chuck Sanders, Vice Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Everyone, including me, has strong opinions about the most prestigious scientific journals such as Cell, Science, and Nature, but we all agree we’d like our papers to be published in these “pinnacle” venues! At least in an… Read More

    Feb. 14, 2024

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    Immune research authority Robert Tampé to deliver Apex Lecture on March 7

    Immune research authority Robert Tampé to present the Vanderbilt Basic Sciences Apex Lecture March 7. Read More

    Feb. 13, 2024

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    Signal transduction authority Xuewu Zhang to deliver Apex Lecture on March 4

    Signal transduction authority Xuewu Zhang to present the Vanderbilt Basic Sciences Apex Lecture March 4. Read More

    Feb. 13, 2024

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    Membrane biophysics authority Jeanne Stachowiak to deliver Apex Lecture on Feb. 13

    Stachowiak is recognized for a paradigm-shifting discovery in the field of membrane biophysics, demonstrating that proteins can induce membrane curvature solely through a surface-crowding mechanism. Her lab investigates the biophysical mechanisms that underlie the function of lipid membranes in cells and explores the opportunity of creating bio-inspired materials and systems that borrow these mechanisms. Read More

    Feb. 1, 2024

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    Get ready for the April 8 total eclipse of 2024!

    By Chuck Sanders Photo by Vanderbilt Professor Matt Tyska on Aug. 21, 2017, in Gallatin, Tennessee. North America will enjoy a rare treat this spring. A total eclipse of the sun will start in Mexico around noon and move northeasternly, passing San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas, bisecting Arkansas, hitting southern… Read More

    Jan. 25, 2024

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    Pushing the boundaries of the academic ladder

    Back to Vestigo Issue 4 By Lorena Infante Lara In 1951, Martha Fant, a schoolteacher in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was pregnant with her second child. Living in the Jim Crow South, she and her husband, Wendell Fant, had access to few health care resources that were readily available… Read More

    Jan. 24, 2024