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The ORCID US Community Consortium, of which Vanderbilt is a member, is offering an ORCID Workshop for Researchers on Nov. 16. As many know, federal agencies and publishers increasingly ask for digital persistent identifiers like ORCID. The VU Libraries recommend this session if you do not already have an account. Virtual ORCID… Read More

At Vanderbilt, we are committed to helping our students navigate and grow through the rigor of graduate education. And, our faculty are committed to helping all students, not just those in their own research groups. To extend this commitment, we have assembled a team of faculty to serve as auxiliary… Read More

Top five things to consider when preparing to purchase freezers for research labs By Selene Colon Research laboratories require reliable and efficient freezers to store various samples, including biological specimens, enzymes, antibodies, and other temperature-sensitive reagents. Second only to fume hoods, your lab’s cold storage (refrigerators, freezers, cold rooms) is… Read More

The NIH has released its final guide notice clarifying its longstanding policy on foreign sub-award and consortium agreements. This applies to all U.S. NIH grants with a sub-contract to a foreign institution. This guide is in response to audits conducted by the Office of the Inspector General… Read More

The NIH has released its final guide notice clarifying its longstanding policy on foreign sub-award and consortium agreements. This applies to all U.S. NIH grants with a sub-contract to a foreign institution. This guide is in response to audits conducted by the Office of the Inspector General… Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences would like to recognize our faculty for pursuing high-impact research that leads to national recognition of Vanderbilt’s research excellence. High-impact science is often identified by the number of citations related papers receive, but highly cited papers are not always in premier journals. We would like to recognize the top two cited research papers from three years ago for which the corresponding or co-corresponding author is a primary assistant professor, associate professor, or professor in Basic Sciences. Read More

By Kensey Bergdorf Ann Richmond In a continuation of previous work studying the role of chemokine receptor CXCR2 in immune cells published in Cancer Immunology Research, the lab of Ann Richmond, Ingram Professor of Cancer Biology and professor of pharmacology, has identified that same receptor as a regulator of melanoma… Read More

Jackson Roberts II, MD, an internationally known clinical pharmacologist in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who helped define the role of lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in human disease, died May 31 in Nashville. He was 79. Dr. Roberts, professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, emeritus, was perhaps best known… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is pleased to solicit faculty applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen Fund supports high-risk, groundbreaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. Initial awards of up to $100,000 (direct costs)… Read More

The new ARPA-H Agency is now accepting pre-proposals for projects that are responsive to their funding priorities (see pages 3–8 of their program announcement). Of particular interest, check out the Health Science Futures focus area, which seeks to develop innovative tools, technologies, and platforms that can be… Read More