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Andrea Page McCaw lab member Erica Shannon won an award for “Emerging Scientist Best Short Talk” at the 19th International Symposium on Calcium Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease.  Erica's talk was entitled, Calcium Dynamics as a Potential Readout of Mechanotransduction at Epithelial Wounds.  Her award included a… Read More

Arthur Dalley is featured in the June issue of VUMC's Educator Development Core newsletter. Their Faculty Focus/Teacher Feature focuses on recent/current scholarly activity.    FACULTY FOCUS – EDUCATOR PROJECT AND TEACHER FEATURE    Arthur ("Art") F. Dalley, Ph.D. Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Adjunct Professor of Orthopedic Surgery The Department… Read More

Good afternoon everyone, I have more good news to share: Please join me in congratulating Ethan Lee and Matt Tyska on achieving full professor status effective July 1, 2015. Both Drs. Lee and Tyska received unanimous support from a vote of senior faculty in the department as well as approval… Read More

Please join me in congratulating Steve Hann as our new Director of Graduate Studies for Cell and Developmental Biology, effective July 1, 2015. Steve brings  valuable experience from his 27 year career in the department, and as PI of the IBSTO training grant.   As IGP Day rapidly approaches we… Read More

Recent CDB student-postdoc award winners include: Allison Prewitt, GSA President, received a $2K voucher from the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translation Research (VICTR) for research support. Mukhtar Ahmed, Ph.D., Macara Lab, received a Fellowship award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – 2015-2018. Rebecca McWhirter, received the NSF Robert Noyce… Read More

For his innovation in elucidating the molecular mechanism of Wnt signaling, Ethan Lee, associate professor, Cell & Developmental Biology, is the recipient of this year’s Sidney P. Colowick Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research. Dr. Lee developed the first biochemical system to study the Wnt pathway, which plays critical roles in animal development and… Read More

Graduate Student Anika Burman (Timothy Blackwell Lab) received the American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship (GSA Pre-doctoral fellowship Winter 2015) for the next two years. Read More

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Ken Lau recently received the Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Research in Tumor Microenvironment. This award was established to recognize the outstanding achievement of a junior faculty-level scientist working in the tumor microenvironment field, and support his or her research that, if successful, will… Read More

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Andrea Page-McCaw was awarded a new R21 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), entitled “FlpOn: an optogenetic circuit for user-designed mosaics and its application to wound healing”.  It is a collaborative grant with Shane Hutson in the Physics department. Read More

The 13th Annual Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat was held May 1, 2015 at the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center in Nashville. This annual event provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, and lab members to meet and discuss their research in a relaxed environment. The agenda consisted of student presentations and poster sessions. Visit… Read More