News
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...
Tyska Lab Images Featured in BBC Series
May. 24, 2022—The Matt Tyska Lab had EM images featured in a BBC Series entitled “Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies”
Chris Wright awarded Paul Lacy Medal for Midwest Islet Club 2022
May. 18, 2022—Chris Wright was awarded the Paul Lacy Medal by the Midwest Islet Club. Wright also presented the keynote address at the 2022 annual meeting and was joined by a number of other Vanderbilt colleagues who also presented talks.
Vega Receives AbbVIE Immunology Scholarship
May. 9, 2022—Paige N. Vega (Lau Lab) won the AbbVIE Immunology Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to students with inflammatory diseases who are pursuing various levels of education
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,...
Collaborative research lays groundwork for potential treatment of a rare and deadly type of cancer
Apr. 22, 2022—A collaborative project between the labs of William Tansey, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of cell and developmental biology and biochemistry, and Stephen Fesik, Orrin H. Ingram II Chair in Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry, chemistry and pharmacology, has laid the foundation for pre-clinical and clinical trials for the treatment of rhabdoid tumors, rare...
Paige Vega to be mentored by Aviv Regev
Apr. 21, 2022—Aviv Regev, PhD, recipient of the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, gave her Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture on April 14. Regev, executive vice president of Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), is an internationally known computational and systems biologist and founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas initiative, an international community of scientists working...
Contreras-Panta Selected for Talk at Digestive Disease Week
Apr. 20, 2022—Ela Contreras-Panta (Goldenring Lab) was selected for a talk at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) and was awarded with a $1000 DDW Basic Science Travel Award