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Oak Ridge and Vanderbilt come together to explore cellular processes
Jul. 3, 2018—Vice Provost for Research Padma RaghavanVanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining their expertise in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and computation to explore transformative, interdisciplinary ways to study complex cellular processes to tackle some of the most pressing problems in biology. The collaboration between the university and ORNL was propelled by a May...
Nominations for Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar now open for female graduate students in biomedical sciences
Jul. 2, 2018—Lynne Maquat, internationally known scientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, will mentor the chosen Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.Nominations for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are now open. The deadline is Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, at 5 p.m. Candidates for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar...
Walker named director of Eskind Biomedical Library
Jun. 27, 2018—Philip Walker (Vanderbilt University)Philip Walker has been named director of Vanderbilt University’s Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library. “With this appointment, we have put in place a truly gifted leader for the renovated Eskind Biomedical Library,” said University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss. “He understands the crucial role that research plays in medical education, in the practice...
An unlikely spot in Lincoln Center acknowledges Rockefeller support of Vanderbilt
Jun. 25, 2018—From the latest issue of Vanderbilt Magazine: School of Medicine building (now Medical Center North) under construction circa 1923–25. (Vanderbilt Special Collections)Dr. John Sergent, BA’63, MD’66—a rheumatologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a professor in the School of Medicine—tells the fascinating story of John D. Rockefeller’s philanthropy to the university and the unlikely place...
VUSM lauded by Gold Humanism Honor Society as Distinguished Chapter
Jun. 21, 2018—The Gold Humanism Honor Society’s (GHHS) Program Committee has recognized the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine chapter as a “2018 Distinguished GHHS Chapter.” Three of the 150 GHHS chapters received the award, which is given as recognition of exemplary achievement in fostering humanism in medicine through chapter-initiated actions, events and research. Brian Drolet, MD, assistant...
Vanderbilt hosts National Transformation Network to discuss “Triple Aim” of medical education
Jun. 21, 2018—Members from the National Transformation Network met at Vanderbilt last week. From left to right: VUSM’s Bonnie Miller, MD, MMHC, and partner schools’ Christie Siebert, MD, Sue Cox, MD, Cheryl Maurana, PhD (Founding Director of the Kern Institute), Catherine Lucey, MD, Stephanie Starr, MD, and Greg Ogrinc, MD. (photo by Steve Green)In March 2017, Vanderbilt...
$8.1 million grant funds new center to research highly aggressive form of lung cancer
Jun. 8, 2018—Dr. Vito QuarantaVanderbilt University has been awarded a five-year, $8.1-million grant from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a research center in the institute’s prestigious Cancer Systems Biology Consortium. Directed by Dr. Vito Quaranta, professor of biochemistry and pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, the new center will focus on advancing the...
New co-directors of Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning named
Jun. 1, 2018—Dr. Melissa Hilmes, left, and Shannon Cole are co-directors of the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning. (Joe Howell)Shannon Cole, instructor of nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and Dr. Melissa Hilmes, assistant professor of radiology and radiological sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, have been named co-directors of the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional...
Fuchs to co-chair VUSM Admissions Committee
May. 31, 2018— Catherine Fuchs, MD, has been named co-chair of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Admissions Committee effective July 1. Catherine Fuchs, MDFuchs will succeed Alice Coogan, MD, professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, who is completing her four-year term as co-chair. Coogan was recently appointed to serve as the vice chair for Anatomic Pathology;...
Master of Laboratory Investigation program accepting applications for fall 2018
May. 25, 2018—2018 graduates of the Master of Laboratory Investigation programThe Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Master of Laboratory Investigation program is accepting applications for fall 2018 through July 30. The MLI program is intentionally designed for individuals who are and will continue to be full-time employees as biomedical researchers. Therefore, the course load each semester will be lighter...