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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

For more than 50 years, Vanderbilt has been a global leader in the quest to understand, prevent, and treat diabetes. 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

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

Compiled by Chuck Sanders to accompany Protein Society newsletter article (Sept. 2024 issue): Critical Points and The Unsinkable Lipid Raft Hypothesis Reverse Chronological Order The Membrane Phase Transition Gives Rise to Responsive Plasma Membrane Structure and Function. Shelby SA, Veatch SL.  Cold Spring… Read More

By Chuck Sanders When I was 13, my brother Scott (12) and I joined our neighbors Matha (12) and Jay (10) on a trip to their family cottage on the bank of the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania. I had fantasized about this trip for months; I… Read More

Quincy Hall describes the experience of arriving on the West Coast as an out-of-state junior college student: “…that’s where the grit comes from. When you have no food. You’ve got to get your own food. No cafeteria. No study hall. None of that. You find out how to be a dog by yourself.” Read More