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We bid a fond farewell to Roger at a celebration on August 26. For those that could not make it, the picture shows Roger sporting one of the gifts from the department – he is well equipped for the next Halloween party. Roger’s last official day as a VU employee… Read More

Roger Colbran has been awarded a Development Award to perform a high throughput screen for small molecule inhibitors and modulators of Ca2+/calmodulin independent protein kinase II (CaMKII). Read More

Vanderbilt announced the establishment of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research (VCAR). VCAR goal is to define the molecular events that drive addictive behavior and to develop new treatments that can help people sustain long-term recovery. Read More

Roger Cone, the chair of MPB for the last 8 years, announced that he will be leaving this Fall for the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan where he will be the Director. Dr. Cone remarked that "…it has been a distinct honor and a great pleasure to serve… Read More

Dr. Richard Simerly, formerly the Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Program and Deputy Director of the Saban Research Institute at the Keck School of Medicine (UCLA) has joined Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Dr. Simerly studies axon targeting in limbic and hypothalamic neural pathways, leptin receptor signaling in developing hypothalamic circuitry, and the development of sexually… Read More

Dr. Erkan Karakas has signed on to join us as an Assistant Professor on the tenure-track some time before January 1, 2017. Erkan will develop a program focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms and regulation of calcium signaling by inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptors (IP3Rs) and the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. During postdoctoral… Read More

Ian Williams of the Wasserman lab is an author of a paper in Cell Metabolism describing how VEGF-mediated changes in adipose vasculature affects obesity. … Read More

Ian Williams in the Wasserman lab has a first author publication in Hypertension describing their work on the effects of an angiotension peptide on insulin sensitivity. … Read More

Allison Norlander in the Harrison and Madhur labs has a first author publication in Hypertension titled "Interleukin-17A Regulates Renal Sodium Transporters and Renal Injury in Angiotensin II-Induced Hypertension."… Read More

Roxana Loperena from David Harrison's laboratory recently won first place in the poster competition at Vanderbilt's Cardiovascular Symposium. … Read More