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Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2022 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. “Vanderbilt’s faculty drive the pathbreaking research and transformative… Read More

Cell and Developmental Biology awards for outstanding research achievements by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are given in recognition of outstanding research achievements by a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. This year’s recipients were Isabella Gaeta (Tyska Lab), who received the Steven Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and… Read More

The Matt Tyska Lab had EM images featured in a BBC Series entitled “Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies”… Read More

Chris Wright was awarded the Paul Lacy Medal by the Midwest Islet Club. Wright also presented the keynote address at the 2022 annual meeting and was joined by a number of other Vanderbilt colleagues who also presented talks. Read More

Paige N. Vega (Lau Lab) won the AbbVIE Immunology Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to students with inflammatory diseases who are pursuing various levels of education… Read More

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is a highly competitive program that awards grants yearly. In 2022, the following Vanderbilt Biomedical students were named awardees: Andreanna Burman(Cell and Developmental Biology, Jim Goldenring lab) Drew Dixson(CDB, Alissa Weaver lab) MinnaApostolova (undergraduate, Mary Philip lab) BlakeBaleami* (Chemical and Physical Biology, Vito Quaranta lab) Kevin McCarty(Quantitative and… Read More

A collaborative project between the labs of William Tansey, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of cell and developmental biology and biochemistry, and Stephen Fesik, Orrin H. Ingram II Chair in Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry, chemistry and pharmacology, has laid the… Read More

Aviv Regev, PhD, recipient of the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, gave her Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture on April 14. Regev, executive vice president of Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), is an internationally known computational and systems biologist and founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas initiative, an… Read More

Ela Contreras-Panta (Goldenring Lab) was selected for a talk at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) and was awarded with a $1000 DDW Basic Science Travel Award… Read More

The Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) received an NIH S10 High-End Instrumentation award to purchase a Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron.  The Notice of Award came this past week to PI Dr. Matt Tyska.  Special thanks to Dr. Evan Krystofiak in CISR-EM for his work toward this award.  The instrument… Read More