School Of Medicine Basic Sciences

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

Just as swallows journey to San Juan Capistrano, California, and monarch butterflies migrate to Michoacan, Mexico, each spring, so mass spectrometrists from across the globe converge on Vanderbilt University for the annual, four-day Advanced Imaging Mass Spectrometry workshop. Read More

Vanderbilt biomedical graduate students and postdocs attended ASPIRE on the Road 2025 in San Diego, California. Over three days, they explored Southern California's biotech and pharmaceutical scene, connecting with alums, industry leaders, and innovative companies. Read More

What makes these results exceptional isn’t just the compounds themselves, it’s what they represent: the value of translational research grounded in real-world therapeutic goals. The partners chose to release these best-in-class tool compounds to the scientific community to accelerate further discovery. Read More

Meet Tracy O’Brien, an administrative assistant in the Office of the Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Read More

Fingleton has served at the helm of the  Interdisciplinary Graduate Program since 2021, weathering post-COVID-19 recruitment trends, the first-ever IGP curriculum redesign, and the current federal funding uncertainties. 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

For the nearly 30 percent of major depressive disorder patients who are resistant to treatment, ketamine provides some amount of normalcy, but it requires frequent treatment and can have side effects. Vanderbilt researchers now show in proof-of-concept experiments that it may be possible to extend ketamine’s antidepressant effect from about a week to up to two months. 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

At the annual VIRAL Research Symposium on April 18, associate professor of biochemistry Yi Ren reflected on her path as an international scientist as one of the event’s featured early-career speakers. Read More