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Andrea Wojciechowski, a graduate student in the William Tansey lab, recently received an F31 from the National Cancer Institute. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers have received a $1.49 million National Science Foundation grant to advance the science of organoids with cells that organize themselves and mimic development of human brain structures. Organoids are lab-produced groups of cells that serve as research models for human physiology in development and disease, including design and… Read More

by Morgan Kroll Nov. 11, 2020, 11:24 AM (Vanderbilt University) Twenty-nine prominent faculty from across campus comprise Vanderbilt University’s latest endowed chair honorees. They include scholars working in diverse areas—from election analysis and lung cancer research to the nascent field of neurolaw, exploring the… Read More

CDB maintains our #2 ranking compared to all other cell biology departments in the United States. Vanderbilt Basic Sciences (Biochemistry, CDB, Pharmacology and MPB) together rank first in the entire country according to Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR.org). Read More

Posted by Emma Stevens on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in Uncategorized. Chloe Snider was honored with the 2020 Alan Hall Award. Congratulations, Chloe! You can read more about the Alan Hall Award here. Read More

Ian Macara’s abstract painting representing the response of skin to DNA damage made the December 7 cover of Developmental Cell (Volume 55, Issue 5). The white area on the right of the image represents a hair follicle, the red represents activated hyper-proliferating epidermal cells,… Read More

Vanderbilt microscopist receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to expand access to imaging technologies by Marissa Shapiro Dec. 2, 2020, 11:00 AM Bryan Millis (Vanderbilt University) Bryan Millis, research assistant professor of cell and developmental biology and biomedical engineering, has been awarded a grant… Read More

Washington DC (Date) — Amrita Banerjee, Ph.D. of Vanderbilt University has been awarded an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) with a placement in the office of Representative Derek Kilmer (WA-06). Dr. Banerjee is among 284 highly trained scientists and engineers who will spend a year serving professionally in… Read More

The Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student Association (CDB-GSA) decided to do more than release a statement supporting their Black peers and the Black Lives Matter movement – they donated $1000 to the Vanderbilt Black Cultural Center (BCC), an organization that supports the needs of Black staff,… Read More

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Anthony Rossi is joint first author on ‘Phosphoregulation of the cytokinetic protein Fic1… Read More