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    Accolade corner

    The hard work of the faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who conduct basic biomedical research at Vanderbilt continues to be recognized on the local and national level. Here we list a few of the researchers who have been recently celebrated. Tina Iverson (Pharmacology) received an Innovation Catalyst Fund award… Read More

    Dec. 11, 2024

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    Tackling the diabetes epidemic 

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

    Dec. 4, 2024

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    Faculty transitions

    The academic landscape can seem like an unmoving entity, but it’s the people within it that make it tick and grow to new frontiers. No outlook on our School of Medicine Basic Sciences is complete without recognizing significant faculty transitions, including well-deserved promotions, exciting new appointments, and bittersweet departures as… Read More

    Nov. 22, 2024

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    Vestigo

    Vestigo Issue 6 Welcome! Explore our sixth issue of Vestigo using the links below, or read the magazine as a PDF (accessible to screen readers). View the PDF A message from School of Medicine Basic Sciences Dean John Kuriyan. Read More

    Nov. 20, 2024

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    Accolade Corner and Class Notes

    The hard work of the faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who conduct basic biomedical research at Vanderbilt continues to be recognized on the local and national level. Here we list a few of the researchers whose work has been recently recognized. Read More

    Mar. 7, 2024

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    Pushing the boundaries of the academic ladder

    Back to Vestigo Issue 4 By Lorena Infante Lara In 1951, Martha Fant, a schoolteacher in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was pregnant with her second child. Living in the Jim Crow South, she and her husband, Wendell Fant, had access to few health care resources that were readily available… Read More

    Jan. 24, 2024