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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

Susan Wente (CDB), former provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, will be the next member of the university community to be celebrated through the Vanderbilt Trailblazers portrait series, which recognizes individuals who have broken barriers and made a positive impact… Read More

THE IDEA A new study from Vanderbilt University researchers has established a novel way to understand how the body discovers and responds to wounds. The research was led by graduate student James O’Connorand Professor Andrea Page-McCaw in the Department of Cell and… Read More

Managing Director, Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence Caroline Roe (Irish Lab), was chosen as an “ISAC SRL Emerging Leader” by the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). The ISAC SRL Emerging Leader (SRL EL) Program is a four-year program designed to enhance and develop the next generation of emerging leaders in… Read More

The CISR core received a VA equipment grant (Shared Equipment Evaluation Program) to purchase a new Zeiss LSM980 Airyscan Confocal. It has arrived, and it will be installed at the VA next week! CDB PIs who were involved in the grant submission are – Roy Zent, Jim Goldenring, Maureen Gannon, and… Read More

Tyler Kennedy, a postdoc in the Miller lab, received an F32 grant from NINDS this summer.          … Read More

Caroline Bodnya (Gama lab) was awarded a Director’s Award Scholarship to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Vanderbilt.      … Read More