Immunology

The MSRC Imaging Mass Spectrometry Core now offers 10x Genomics’ Xenium platform for spatial transcriptomics, providing Vanderbilt researchers with a powerful new way to visualize and quantify gene expression within intact tissues at single-cell resolution. The service expands the core’s multimodal imaging capabilities and supports investigators from project planning through data analysis. Read More

By Lorena Infante Lara Food-related allergies and their effects are insidiously common in the United States: over seven percent of children and over 10 percent of adults are affected.  Although a quarter of people with food allergies have an epinephrine pen, they are expensive and have to be replaced… Read More

Peanuts cause the highest number of food allergy–related deaths in the U.S. Basic scientists at Vanderbilt uncover how the allergy works and suggest new potential treatments. Read More

By Aaron Conley Kyle Riedmann Zenobia Godschalk and Mark Godschalk, BA’92, of Atlanta, Georgia, have established the Zenobia and Mark Godschalk Research Fund within the School of Medicine Basic Sciences to support novel research in biology or immunology. The inaugural award of the research fund has been presented to Kyle… Read More

In a landmark achievement, Neil Dani, an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, has been named a 2023 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The prestigious grant program supports early-career biomedical scholars who adopt bold and innovative approaches to fundamental… Read More