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Wojciechowski awarded NCI grant
Apr. 16, 2021—Andrea Wojciechowski, graduate student in CDB, Bill Tansey lab, has recently been awarded a received grants from the National Cancer Institute.
New CRISPR screening technique developed at Vanderbilt leads to discovery of pathway that may be linked to cancer initiation
Mar. 13, 2021—by Marissa Shapiro Mar. 10, 2021, 9:00 AM A new genome-wide CRISPR screening technique conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University is offering new insights about how tumors in 80 to 90 percent of all cancers grow. Maria Fomicheva Ian Macara (Vanderbilt University) This novel approach developed by Maria Fomicheva, a graduate student in the lab...
Page-McCaw spearheads improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process
Mar. 2, 2021—Andrea Page-McCaw, DGS for CDB, spearheaded improvements to her program’s “direct-admit” process in which prospective students choose an adviser during the application process. “A direct-admit student is particularly dependent on their adviser because of their complete reliance on the adviser’s funding, along with the student’s reduced professional network and decreased potential to change labs,” McCaw...
Vivian Gama has won a $2.3 million BRAIN Initiative grant, developing brain organoids to map neurological development
Feb. 16, 2021—Vivian Gama, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, and Leon Bellan, associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, have won a $2.3 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative. Vivian Gama Leon Bellan (Vanderbilt University) The researchers will be developing three-dimensional brain organoids and related tissue—miniaturized and simplified versions produced in vitro—that resemble a human brain at 24 to 25 weeks post-conception. These will provide an...
Andrea Wojciechowski (Tansey lab) receives an F31 from the NCI
Jan. 16, 2021—Andrea Wojciechowski, a graduate student in the William Tansey lab, recently received an F31 from the National Cancer Institute.
Ken Lau part of $1.5 million NSF project to develop advanced brain organoids
Jan. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt engineers have received a $1.49 million National Science Foundation grant to advance the science of organoids with cells that organize themselves and mimic development of human brain structures. Organoids are lab-produced groups of cells that serve as research models for human physiology in development and disease, including design and testing of drugs and other...
Susan Wente honored with endowed chair
Jan. 16, 2021—by Morgan Kroll Nov. 11, 2020, 11:24 AM (Vanderbilt University) Twenty-nine prominent faculty from across campus comprise Vanderbilt University’s latest endowed chair honorees. They include scholars working in diverse areas—from election analysis and lung cancer research to the nascent field of neurolaw, exploring the brain mechanism underlying legal decision-making. “An endowed chair is a remarkable...
CDB maintains #2 ranking
Jan. 11, 2021—CDB maintains our #2 ranking compared to all other cell biology departments in the United States. Vanderbilt Basic Sciences (Biochemistry, CDB, Pharmacology and MPB) together rank first in the entire country according to Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR.org).
Chloe Snider wins the 2020 Alan Hall Award
Dec. 24, 2020—Posted by Emma Stevens on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in Uncategorized. Chloe Snider was honored with the 2020 Alan Hall Award. Congratulations, Chloe! You can read more about the Alan Hall Award here.
Macara abstract painting makes cover of Developmental Cell
Dec. 16, 2020—Ian Macara’s abstract painting representing the response of skin to DNA damage made the December 7 cover of Developmental Cell (Volume 55, Issue 5). The white area on the right of the image represents a hair follicle, the red represents activated hyper-proliferating epidermal cells, the black is DNA crosslinking in response to cisplatin treatment, and...