National Institutes Of Health

The Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center has been awarded a Center of Excellence grant from the National Institutes of Health. The announcement comes nearly five years after the creation of an exploratory National Institute on Aging-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, led by Angela Jefferson. Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. Ten graduate students were recognized for their high academic and scientific achievement and for the originality, significance, and rigor of their dissertation research. Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. Ten graduate students were recognized for their high academic and scientific achievement and for the originality, significance, and rigor of their dissertation research. Read More

Driven by personal loss, a graduate student and his mentors unveil the mysteries of CFTR mutations, seeking to unlock new treatments for cystic fibrosis patients who currently resist available drugs. Read More

Kaitlyn Browning, PhD’24, sat down with us to discuss her experience studying basic science at Vanderbilt and how it played a role in her career. Browning is now a scientific program analyst for the National Institutes of Health. Read More

A recent paper from the lab of Emily Hodges looks at how two types of epigenetic changes act together but on different time scales to affect gene expression during cell differentiation. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a nanoparticle complex that can both visualize and attack cancer cells by targeting the tumor microenvironment. Read More

In a recent study, Vanderbilt researchers address a significant gap in our understanding of how noncoding regions of the genome regulate important biological processes, such as X-chromosome inactivation. They use an innovative, single-cell approach to uncover new mechanistic insights into how specific long noncoding RNAs control critical gene regulation events. Read More

A new study uncovered how tissues detect and respond to damage in basement membranes, and how they recruit a previously unknown set of "matrix mender" cells to repair the tissue. The results of this study have far-reaching implications for numerous diseases, including diabetes, dementia, and cancer. Read More

Researchers discovered that the protein tenascin-C is a crucial molecular player in the aggressiveness of anaplastic thyroid cancer. The results could lead to better targeted therapeutics for thyroid cancer. Read More