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Ken Lau, professor of cell and developmental biology, and colleagues have laid out the principles governing the biology of early, precancerous lesions, which are different from the principles that govern cancers. Their authoritative perspective was published in Cancer Discovery in April 2024. Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research hosted Science Day on April 18. The annual event, which started in 2017, featured the latest research in addiction, including investigations into alcohol, opioids, and stimulants. Read More

Vanderbilt’s cell and developmental biology department is the third-most NIH-funded in the nation. Biochemistry, pharmacology, and molecular physiology and biophysics are in the top 15. Read More

World-renowned leader in biochemistry David Cortez wins the 2024 Hans Neurath Award for the development and application of creative technological approaches to identify and characterize proteins involved in DNA and genome maintenance.  Read More

Vanderbilt graduate students traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop to learn from experts about the role of science in policymaking and the federal policy-making process. The Vanderbilt Office of Federal Relations has been sponsoring graduate students to participate in the AAAS CASE workshop for a decade. Read More

The new award celebrates the scientific relationship between  a mentor and trainee pair by providing them with $4,000 to attend a national conference in the trainee's research field. Read More

The labs of Emily Hodges, assistant professor of biochemistry, and Tony Capra, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, have devised a method to separate the relative contributions of cis vs. trans regulatory mechanisms to gene regulatory divergence between species. Read More

This year’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award was awarded to Carrie Jones, associate professor of pharmacology, for her work understanding schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and addiction and her willingness to support students in her lab. Read More

The 2024 Center for Structural Biology Symposium, which took place on March 28, celebrated its decades of success, research undertakings, and goal of strengthening the structural biology community at Vanderbilt. Read More

Jennifer Pietenpol, Executive Vice President for Research and chief scientific and strategy officer for VUMC and professor of biochemistry and otolaryngology, is the 2024 recipient of the Science of Oncology Award, for outstanding contributions to basic or translational research in cancer. She is among a select group of global oncology leaders being recognized with special awards by ASCO and Conquer Cancer, the organization’s foundation. Read More