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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

Aug. 11, 2021, 4:10 PM   by Bill Snyder Paige Vega, a PhD student in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. Paige Vega has been selected as the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. (photo by Elaine… Read More

Beginning on July 1, the Program for Extracellular Vesicle Research got an upgrade and became one of the nine official centers and institutes associated with the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. The Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research will be led by Professor of Cell… Read More

Keyada Frye, Ph.D. Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Irina Kaverina, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: The role of the motor kinesin, KIF1C, in vascular smooth muscle cell podosome regulation Megan Rasmussen, Ph.D Department: Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty Mentor: Vivian Gama, Ph.D. Dissertation Description: Understanding the mechanisms by which the BCL-2 family… Read More

Gabriella Robertson (Gama lab) has been awarded the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship award provides financial support for a student selected as the most outstanding candidate from among those selected to receive Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (HSV) graduate scholarship. The Sidney P. Colowick… Read More