‘Weaver Lab’
Weaver Among Team Receiving $3M NSF Grant
Sep. 28, 2023—A team of Vanderbilt engineers, biologists and education specialists have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to advance large-scale biomanufacturing of cell-derived nanoparticles that can deliver precisely targeted drugs to the site of a disease. “Biomanufacturing is a growing but critical field that is reshaping how we diagnose and treat some...
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,...