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Eric Donahue (Burkewitz Lab) won a travel grant for the conference of the American Physician-Scientist Association (APSA)… Read More

Pioneering research from scientists at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies shows that acinar cells in the pancreas form new cell types to mitigate injury but are then susceptible to cancerous mutations. Findings from this research, led by… Read More

The Jeffrey Spraggins Lab has been awarded a supplement to its HuBMAP project (3 U54 EY032442-02S1) to purchase an Illumina MiSeq sequencer to complement the lab’s spatial transcriptomics workflows. Read More

Graduate student, Aubrie Stricker (Andrea Page-McCaw Lab) won a travel award to attend the Biennial meeting of the American Society of Matrix Biology. Read More

Gabriella Robertson recently received the D-SPAN F99/K00 award from NIH/NINDS. Gabriella is a graduate student in the Vivian Gama lab. Read More

Mary Chalkley (Ihrie/Ess Labs) received an abstract award and was selected to give a talk at the 2021 International Tuberous Sclerosis + LAM Conference… Read More

The Ivy Foundation’s Emerging Leader Grant Award 2021 was granted to Rebecca Ihrie (CDB). The award supports early-to-mid-career investigators conducting high-impact, high-reward translational research on glioblastoma. Read More

Research Assistant Professor Seth Taylor and Professor David Miller, both in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, have established a gene expression atlas for the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans, along with biologists from… Read More

The Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement for Advanced Students is granted to graduate students who distinguish themselves during their graduate careers. The winners from CDB for 2021 are as follows: Cody Heiser, CPB, Ken Lau la Gabriella Robertson, CDB, Vivian Gama lab Mary Chalkley, CDB, Rebecca Ihrie and… Read More

The new ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, designed to bring biomedical Ph.D. scientists to the entrepreneurial and technology transfer realm, has welcomed its first postdoctoral fellow: Karrie Dudek, a graduate of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.        … Read More