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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. Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More

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… Read More

Alternative text, or alt text, are words that describe an image or other graphic. Alt text helps people with low vision, and others who use assistive technology such as screen readers, understand what’s happening in the image. Taking this extra step improves your communication by making your information more accessible,… Read More

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… Read More

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 … Read More

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… Read More

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. Read More

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… Read More