Vanderbilt Basic Sciences

The October 17 School of Medicine Basic Sciences Dean’s Lecture featured renowned immunologist, virologist, and alumnus Dr. Barney S. Graham, PhD’91. Throughout his career, Graham has made incredible scientific achievements, leading the first human trial on the AIDS vaccine and serving as the chief architect for the first experimental COVID-19… Read More

Five Vanderbilt graduate students recently participated in the SEC Networking and Career Fair hosted by the University of Missouri, part of the SEC Emerging Scholars Program for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars announced earlier this year. The program is intended to serve as a pathway and source of mentorship for… Read More

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) — a chronic, progressive syndrome — is marked by persistent activation and proliferation of fibroblast cells and the pathologic accumulation of extracellular matrix (scar tissue). Most patients die within 3-5 years of diagnosis. Timothy Blackwell, MD, James West, PhD, and colleagues… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers’ partnership with Ancora Innovation LLC, a Deerfield Management company that supports Vanderbilt University’s innovative life science research, has added an effort to develop therapeutics for a rare form of epilepsy. This is the fourth drug discovery and development program supported through the Ancora-Vanderbilt collaboration. … Read More

In recognition of Roger Chalkley, retired senior associate dean for biomedical research education and training, Dr. Tom Daniel, a former Vanderbilt professor, biotechnology R&D leader, and venture investor, has established the Dr. Roger Chalkley Critical Need Fund to support biomedical graduate students who encounter unanticipated financial challenges. Read More

Antentor Hinton Jr., assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, has been awarded a grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Science Diversity Leadership program. The $1.5 million, five-year grant will support his work on “finding organelle… Read More

In this issue of the 35th volume of Chemical Research in Toxicology (CRT), we share a special collection of science that celebrates the tremendous advances in this period at the intersection of chemistry and toxicology. Throughout the year, every issue of the Journal has borne a 35-year anniversary symbol to… Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected this year to membership in the National Academy of Medicine, a prestigious, non-governmental organization that advises the nation and the world on important aspects of medical science, health care and public health. Monteggia was recruited to Vanderbilt in 2018 to… Read More

In the mammalian brain, the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter is called GABA. The gene SLC6A1 encodes the GABA transporter GAT1, and in Neurobiology of Disease, Felicia Mermer, Sarah Poliquin, Jing-Qiong Kang, MD, PhD, and colleagues report experiments — in silico, in vitro and in mice-o… Read More

The Quality Education for Minorities Network, in partnership with Vanderbilt University, Louisiana Tech University, North Dakota State University and Temple University researchers, has been awarded nearly $70,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to host the Pipelines to Pathways: Humanizing Diversity in STEM Conference. The conference aims to engage… Read More