‘Vanderbilt Department of Biochemistry’
Osheroff Named the 2024 Recipient of the Lillian B. Nanney Award for Outstanding Service to the VUSM/VUMC Community of Educators
Jul. 12, 2024—The Lillian B. Nanney Award for Outstanding Service to the VUSM/VUMC Community of Educators is a lifetime achievement award established to recognize an Academy for Excellence in Education faculty member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding service to the Vanderbilt community of educators. This year’s winner is Neil Osheroff, PhD, John G. Coniglio Professor of Biochemistry and professor...
Spraggins Named 2024 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Jul. 12, 2024—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2024 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise.
New structures offer insight into how a bacterial motor powers bacterial chemotaxis, a key infectious process
Jul. 12, 2024—Bacteria existed for millennia before humans and have been infecting us from the beginning. Although we can treat infections through pharmaceuticals, bacteria continue to become resistant to treatment thanks to their rapid evolution. Bacterial infections remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in 2024, resulting in nearly eight million annual deaths globally. One key...
Hodges lab sheds new light on mechanisms of gene regulatory divergence between species
Jul. 12, 2024—Closely related animal species can look physically different, but you might be surprised to learn that those differences can result not only from DNA sequence changes that alter proteins’ structure or function, but also because changes in the DNA affect how those proteins are expressed. To add to that, not all differences between species can...
David Cortez wins Protein Society award for contributions to basic protein science
Jul. 12, 2024—David Cortez, the Richard N. Armstrong Ph.D. Professor of Innovation in Biochemistry and chair of biochemistry, won The Hans Neurath Award, a 2024 Protein Society Award, for recent contributions of exceptional merit to basic protein research.
Pietenpol to receive ASCO’s highest honor
Jul. 12, 2024—Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, Executive Vice President for Research, and chief scientific and strategy officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) with one of its highest honors.
Osheroff honored with APMEC mentoring award
Jun. 2, 2023—Dr. Neil Osheroff was the keynote speaker at the 20th annual Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) in Singapore and received their MILES (Mentoring, Innovation, and Leadership in Educational Scholarship) Award. APMEC, an Asian medical education conference, had over 1,000 delegates in attendance. I am sharing a picture of the award ceremony. Pictured here is...
Manny Ascano promoted to associate professor with tenure!
Feb. 14, 2022—Manuel Ascano, Jr., Ph.D., Biochemistry Department has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Dr. Ascano is also the Associate Professor or Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, the Director of Graduate Studies for Biochemistry, and Dean Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on DNA/RNA detection and regulation in innate immunity & viral pathogenesis. The research program of the Ascano laboratory is centered on...