Department News
Adrian Cadar receives a VICTR NCATS award
Apr. 28, 2016—Adrian Cadar has received a research award from Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for a proposal titled "Real-time titin dynamics in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes."
MPB lends a hand to the AHA’s Hands on Heart
Apr. 28, 2016—American Heart Association (AHA)-funded Alyssa Hasty, Leslie Roteta, Christian Marks, and Reid Bolus participated in the Rutherford County “Hands on Heart” AHA event. They shared their work with various AHA fund raisers and donors, representing AHA-related topics such as fatty liver disease, stroke, and obesity-related cardiometabolic disease.
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation recognizes the work of Danny Winder.
Apr. 28, 2016—The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation recently highlighted collaborative work between Dr. Winder's lab and Sachin Patel's lab on treatments for depressive-like behavior following alchohol abstinence.
Hasty becomes Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellow
Apr. 22, 2016—Alyssa Hasty has been accepted as a Fellow in the 2016-2017 Class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women.
Sachin Patel receives Presidential Early Career Award
Mar. 26, 2016—Associate Professor Sachin Patel of both Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Psychiatry, is one of 106 researchers named today by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The Presidential Early Career Award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the...
Kim Ramil Montaniel in David Harrison’s lab wins 2nd place in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Mar. 1, 2016—Kim Ramil Montaniel in David Harrison's lab won second place in the 2016 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition. The 3MT was developed by The University of Queensland. The purpose of the competion is to present the student's graduate work to a general audience in 3 minutes. The Graduate Student Council at Vanderbilt University began hosting an annual 3MT competition...
Adrian Cadar is an author in a Translational Psychiatry paper
Mar. 1, 2016—Adrian Cadar is an author on a paper published in Translational Psychiatry which identifies polymorphisms in the genes that regulate the circadian cycle, the internal clock, and depression risk.
Michael Litt receives a Kirschstein NRSA predoctoral award
Feb. 22, 2016—Michael Litt of the Cone lab was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein (F30) NRSA predoctoral award from the NIH entitled "Characterization of a New Pharmacological Approach to Cachexia"
Bethany Dale has been awarded a VICTR grant
Feb. 9, 2016—Bethany Dale has been awarded a VICTR grant: "Immunophenotyping of Human Hypertension using CyTOF Multiplex Single Cell Technology”
Bethany Dale to join Jonathan Irish’s lab for mini-sabbatical
Feb. 9, 2016—Bethany Dale will learn CyTOF analysis in Jonathan Irish's lab in a VCI mini-sabbatical.
Bethany Dale publishes first author paper
Feb. 9, 2016—Bethany Dale is the first author on a paper appearing in Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension titled: "Linking inflammation and hypertension via LNK/SH2B3"
Adrian Cadar published in Circulation Research
Feb. 5, 2016—Adrian Cadar published a paper in Circulation Research titled "Matrigel Mattress: A Method for the Generation of Single Contracting Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes."
Christian Marks and Tyler Perfitt promote WeWillNotGiveUp
Feb. 5, 2016—Christian Marks and Tyler Perfitt were featured in a Vanderbilt new video for their work in a “wewillnotgiveup” grassroots social media campaign.