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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… Read More

The research of Kris Burkewitz, Assistant Professor of Cell and Development Biology, is highlighted in this Basic Sciences faculty profile. Read More

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. Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research ranks Vanderbilt Cell and Developmental Biology #2 in NIH funding among Anatomy / Cell Biology peer institutions.              … Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Jan. 13, 2020, 11:00 AM Cartilage cells in the zebrafish model of the disease CATIFA (right) have reduced volumes and irregular shapes compared to healthy cartilage cells (left) because of a defect in collagen secretion. (image courtesy of Ela Knapik, MD) by Leigh MacMillan Studies that started in zebrafish have… Read More