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Thanks to their high academic and scientific achievement, nine graduate students have been named recipients of the 2022 Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. The students were recognized for the originality, significance, and rigor of their dissertation research. The awardees were selected by a committee made… Read More

Vivian Gama and Melanie Gill (Neuroscience) joined 50 other teams of graduate students and advisers who earned a 2022 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. Read More

Kathleen DelGiorno (Cell and Developmental Biology) and Nidhi Jyotsana (CDB) received a DOD Parterning PI grant to support high-impact research focused on pancreatic cancer. Read More

In a technical tour de force, a collaborative team of Vanderbilt researchers has characterized the antigen-specific immune response to the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccine. The group used multiple single-cell technologies, unbiased machine learning, and traditional immunological approaches to track cellular and antibody responses in samples collected over time from a… Read More

Linh Trinh (Magness Lab) received the inaugural Brighter Ventures Student Award. The award supports Ph.D. students interested in the application of artificial intelligence in the biomedical research field. Read More

Xinyu Dong (Zent Lab) received an ASN Pre-Doctoral Fellowship award from the American Society of Nephrology. Read More

Veronica Farmer (Zanic Lab) was awarded for the best in vitro poster at the recent EMBO Microtubules meeting in June. Read More

Vanderbilt has awarded 14 faculty members with grants to support the early stages of pioneering research projects identified as likely candidates for further funding from federal, foundation and industry sponsors. The spring 2022 Seeding Success Grants are the second cycle of the internal early investment funding initiative. The… Read More

A collaborative project between the labs of Maulik Patel, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Kris Burkewitz, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, has identified a new molecular pathway that plays a key role in the ability of cells to sense and respond… Read More

The lab of Kathy DelGiorno, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, seeks to understand changes in the pancreas in response to injury and disease. In a recent project led by graduate student Leah Caplan, also from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, the lab investigated the formation of enteroendocrine cells—a collection… Read More