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Gama earns HHMI Gilliam Fellowship

Jul. 28, 2022—Vivian Gama and Melanie Gill (Neuroscience) joined 50 other teams of graduate students and advisers who earned a 2022 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study.

DelGiorno and Jyotsana earn DOD Grant

Jul. 28, 2022—Kathleen DelGiorno (Cell and Developmental Biology) and Nidhi Jyotsana (CDB) received a DOD Parterning PI grant to support high-impact research focused on pancreatic cancer.

Irish Part of Team Tracking Cellular and Antibody Responses to COVID-19 Vaccine

Jul. 20, 2022—In a technical tour de force, a collaborative team of Vanderbilt researchers has characterized the antigen-specific immune response to the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccine. The group used multiple single-cell technologies, unbiased machine learning, and traditional immunological approaches to track cellular and antibody responses in samples collected over time from a cohort of healthy participants. The...

Trinh Receives Brighter Ventures Student Award

Jul. 15, 2022—Linh Trinh (Magness Lab) received the inaugural Brighter Ventures Student Award. The award supports Ph.D. students interested in the application of artificial intelligence in the biomedical research field.

Dong Receives ASN Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award

Jul. 15, 2022—Xinyu Dong (Zent Lab) received an ASN Pre-Doctoral Fellowship award from the American Society of Nephrology.

Farmer Awarded for Best Poster

Jul. 1, 2022—Veronica Farmer (Zanic Lab) was awarded for the best in vitro poster at the recent EMBO Microtubules meeting in June.

Arceneaux Receives Travel Award

Jul. 1, 2022—Jerome Arceneaux (Ihrie Lab, Meharry Medical College) was selected for a Diversity Travel Award to the 2022 MD/PhD National Student Conference in Colorado.

Schafer and Lee Awarded Seeding Success Grant

Jun. 28, 2022—Vanderbilt has awarded 14 faculty members with grants to support the early stages of pioneering research projects identified as likely candidates for further funding from federal, foundation and industry sponsors. The spring 2022 Seeding Success Grants are the second cycle of the internal early investment funding initiative. The grants, awarded to faculty spanning the university’s disciplines and...

Patel and Burkewitz Identify New Molecular Pathway

Jun. 23, 2022—A collaborative project between the labs of Maulik Patel, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Kris Burkewitz, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, has identified a new molecular pathway that plays a key role in the ability of cells to sense and respond to stressed mitochondria. Defects in mitochondrial function are particularly relevant to aging and...

DelGiorno Lab Identifies New Cell Subtype

Jun. 17, 2022—The lab of Kathy DelGiorno, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, seeks to understand changes in the pancreas in response to injury and disease. In a recent project led by graduate student Leah Caplan, also from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, the lab investigated the formation of enteroendocrine cells—a collection of gastrointestinal and pancreatic cell...

Marija Zanic Named to 2022 Cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows

Jun. 15, 2022—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2022 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. “Vanderbilt’s faculty drive the pathbreaking research and transformative education that set our university apart,” Chancellor Daniel Diermeier...

Outstanding Student and Postdoc Awards for CDB Presented During Annual Retreat

May. 27, 2022—Cell and Developmental Biology awards for outstanding research achievements by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are given in recognition of outstanding research achievements by a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. This year’s recipients were Isabella Gaeta (Tyska Lab), who received the Steven Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and Sierra Culati (Gould Lab), who received the...

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