Liver

  Liver Disease Liver disease affects millions globally, with causes including fatty liver (MASLD), viral hepatitis (HCV/HBV), alcohol, and obesity, leading to significant mortality (2M deaths/year globally) and disability. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences researchers investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human liver diseases. Their work aims… Read More

  Liver Disease Liver disease affects millions globally, with causes including fatty liver (MASLD), viral hepatitis (HCV/HBV), alcohol, and obesity, leading to significant mortality (2M deaths/year globally) and disability. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences researchers investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human liver diseases. Their work aims… Read More

Recent work from a coalition of Vanderbilt labs has found clear distinctions in insulin-secreting β-cell subtypes and drawn a connection between certain subtypes and a higher risk of diabetes. Read More

Members of the diabetes and metabolic research community gathered at Vanderbilt for a symposium honoring Dr. Alan Cherrington, whose monumental contributions to diabetes research and metabolic regulation have revolutionized therapeutic strategies for diabetes management throughout his career. Read More

Researchers from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences have discovered that the concentration of a critical protein influences the formation of the gallbladder and the bile duct system. Read More

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

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year grant through the NIH’s flagship T32 institutional training grant program. T32 grants provide funding to support students and postdoctoral trainees working in focused areas of research that advance the NIH mission. Read More

Today, the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center includes 140 faculty members from 15 departments and three colleges or schools at Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College who conduct basic, clinical and translational research on the cause, prevention, treatment and complications of diabetes and obesity. Read More

Leading investigators in diabetes, pancreas and islet biology, and computational biology have received $12.5 million in two five-year awards from the National Institutes of Health to create the world’s first, integrated knowledge base of human-derived tissue- and cellular-level pancreatic information to support innovative, collaborative and reproducible research. Read More

Prior to insulin’s introduction to the clinic in 1922, life expectancy after a type 1 diabetes diagnosis was only one to two years. Even after insulin, without the understanding and technology we have today, managing diabetes was a struggle. Read More