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Welcome New IGP Graduate Students!
Jun. 3, 2020—Please help us welcome the following new IGP Graduate Students: Deronisha Arceneaux – Lau Lab Tierney Baum- Vivian Gama Deanna Bowman-Jim Goldenring Ela Contreras Panta – Jim Goldenring Sarah Glass – Bob Coffey Kyle Riedmann- Julie Bastarache Nabil Saleh – Ken Lau Aubrie Stricker – Andrea Page-McCaw Lab
Jonathan Irish joins international effort to optimize COVID-19 treatment
Jun. 1, 2020—by Marissa Shapiro May. 29, 2020, 12:00 PM A complex artificial intelligence-powered analysis is being deployed by Jonathan Irish, associate professor of cell and developmental biology and scientific director of the Cancer & Immunology Core, in the race to understand the inner-workings of COVID-19. The tool parses through vast quantities of data to identify extremely...
Kris Burkewitz Faculty Profile
May. 23, 2020—The research of Kris Burkewitz, Assistant Professor of Cell and Development Biology, is highlighted in this Basic Sciences faculty profile.
April Weissmiller Earns Rally Foundation Award
May. 7, 2020—We are pleased to announce that April Weissmiller, Research Assistant Professor, Tansey Lab, was awarded a Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Young Investigator Award for the 2020/2021 fiscal year. for Childhood Cancer Research Young Investigator Award for the 2020/2021 fiscal year.
New Dean’s Faculty Fellows program recognizes Marija Zanic
Apr. 30, 2020—The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has established a new Dean’s Faculty Fellows program designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their career. The award targets assistant professors who have shown a strong track record of scientific accomplishment and are likely to continue producing high-quality science in their respective fields....
Alissa Weaver leads team to study extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer
Apr. 30, 2020—by Leigh MacMillan A multidisciplinary team of investigators at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a program project grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore extracellular RNA in colorectal cancer. The five-year, $9 million award will support multiple projects that aim to define fundamental biological principles about extracellular RNA signaling and...
Bill Tansey receives Exton Award for Research Leading to Innovative Biological Concepts
Apr. 30, 2020—Recipient of the JOHN H. EXTON AWARD for Research Leading to Innovative Biological Concepts: William Tansey, PhD, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Biochemistry Tansey is being honored for innovative methodological advances and impactful discoveries that have advanced understanding of MYC, a family of proteins overexpressed in cancer....
Awards honor research staff’s crucial contributions
Feb. 22, 2020—Alan Simmons & Sean Schaffer were honored last week for research excellence during the 16th annual Research Staff Awards luncheon at the Kimpton Aertson Hotel in Nashville. Schaffer, an expert in a wide range of microscopy modalities, is an essential part of the CISR and collaborates with researchers across the university and medical center, wrote CISR...
Tansey’s research is highlighted in a new Basic Sciences “discovery” article
Feb. 8, 2020—Cancers are complex and diverse in nature, assailing the human body through different mechanisms. Cancer cells outsmart normal cells through myriad mechanisms, including sustained proliferation, insensitivity to growth suppressors, and resistance to cell death. MYC is a transcription factor (it regulates the expression of other genes) that plays important roles in human development, but it...