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Gillian Fitz (Tyska lab) received a Smriti Bardhan, Ph.D. Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes excellence in research by a Ph.D. student in an area related to life sciences or biological sciences. Read More

Evan Krystofiak, Ph.D. (CISR) was awarded a grant from the Microscopy Society of America to develop open-source cryo-tools for electron microscopy.  The grant title is: “A Modular, Open Source, Inexpensive, Cryo-Preparation System for Plunge and Slam-Freezing.” and the grant is called a “MSA Strategic Initiative”   The below image… Read More

The laboratories of Brian Bachmann, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology, and Jonathan Irish, associate professor of cell and developmental biology and pathology, microbiology and immunology, have developed a method to discover new small molecules that may kill cancer cells by working through the body’s immune system. The method is the… Read More

Researchers in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have received three grants totaling $13.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop molecular “atlases” of the brain, kidney, eye and other tissues. Their goal is to find new and better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a host of… Read More

Four Vanderbilt graduate students and one postdoc recently participated in the SEC Networking and Career Fair hosted by the University of Missouri, part of the SEC Emerging Scholars Program for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars announced earlier this year. The program is intended to serve as a pathway and source of mentorship… Read More

Dylan Burnette won fourth place in Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition, which features movies or time-lapse photography taken through the microscope. Burnette received honorable mentions for two other submissions as well. Olivia Feehan-Nelson (Cell and Developmental Biology, Matthew Tyska lab) also received an honorable mention for her… Read More

Dr. Ethan Lee, professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Pharmacology, has been named a 2022 Innovation Fund investigator by The Pew Charitable Trusts. As a vote of confidence in the power of collaborative, interdisciplinary research, Pew created the Innovation Fund in 2017 to… Read More

Chen Chiang was recognized for completing 25 years of service at Vanderbilt. Read More

Jerome Arceneaux (Meharry Medical College Ihrie Lab) was elected to the Student National Medical Association Board of Directors as Regional Director for region 10. Read More

Andrea Page-McCaw recently received an equipment supplement from NIGMS. The supplement will go toward purchasing a new Epifluorescence Microscope. Read More