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Vega and Islam win 2024 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
Apr. 16, 2024—Paige Vega and Mirazul Islam (Lau lab) won the 2024 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award. This award recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in areas such as publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national/international distinction.
Ihrie and Irish Earn Cover of Clynical Cytometry
Oct. 12, 2023—Cyclic immunohistochemistry (cycIHC) uses sequential rounds of colorimetric immunostaining and imaging for quantitative mapping of location and number of cells of interest. Additionally, cycIHC benefits from the speed and simplicity of brightfield microscopy, making the collection of entire tissue sections and slides possible at a trivial cost compared to other high dimensional imaging modalities. However,...
Lau and Coffey Awarded $5 Million Grant
Sep. 22, 2022—Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study precancerous lesions and early cancers in the colon, with the goal of developing new ways to prevent colorectal cancer, the nation’s second leading cancer killer. Robert Coffey, MD, Martha Shrubsole, PhD, and Ken Lau, PhD, are VUMC’s project leaders...
Dixson and Burman awarded NSF Fellowship
May. 4, 2022—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 Chemical Biology) Teresa Piedad Torres(Microbe-Host Interactions,...
Cell Imaging Shared Resource to receive new Zeiss LSM980 Confocal Microscope with Airyscan2
Feb. 26, 2021—The Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) will be getting a new Zeiss LSM980 Confocal Microscope with Airyscan2. CISR was awarded a VA equipment grant (Shared Equipment Evaluation Program – ShEEP) in late 2020, and is in the purchase process right now. The award total was $649,867. The grant was written by Jenny Schafer, Jim Goldenring,...
Tansey Reports on “WIN for blocking cancer growth”
Jan. 31, 2021—Jan. 21, 2021, 10:00 AM by Sarah Glass WDR5 is a protein that is overexpressed in a variety of cancers. Inhibiting WDR5 by targeting the WDR5-interaction (WIN) site can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in vitro, but this mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated. Publishing in Cell Reports, William Tansey, PhD, Alissa Guarnaccia and...
Steve Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Aug. 22, 2020—The Steve Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award is presented annually to graduate students who exhibit “outstanding performance and evident promise as an independent research scientist and educator.” Past recipients include: 2022 Isabella Gaeta, Tyska Lab 2020 Nilay Taneja, Burnette Lab 2019 Aidan Fenix, Burnett Lab 2018 Meredith Weck, Tyska Lab 2017 Chuck Williams, Hong Lab...
2020 Steve Hann Award Winners
Jul. 28, 2020—Congratulations to Nilay Taneja (Burnette lab) & Elizabeth Lawrence (Zanic lab), winners of the Steve Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award and Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award, respectively.
Grant spurs effort to map biology of Crohn’s disease
Nov. 22, 2019—Nov. 20, 2019, 4:14 PM by Bill Snyder Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to map — in unprecedented detail — the biology of Crohn’s disease. Under the terms of the award, which was announced last month, VUMC...
Understanding cell division
Nov. 22, 2019—Nov. 18, 2019, 8:30 AM by Cayetana Arnaiz Yépez Cytokinesis is the final step of the process of cell division, by which the two new cells are physically separated. This process relies on a structure called the cytokinetic ring, which needs to be linked to the plasma membrane throughout cell division. One important linker protein is...