Spring Faculty Meeting set for April 27
Jan. 26, 2017—The annual Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting and Awards Program will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in 208 Light Hall. Following remarks by Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and dean of the School of Medicine, the 2017 Faculty Awards for Excellence...
Richard Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist, is Leonard Visiting Scholar, Feb. 8 and 9
Jan. 24, 2017—Richard Kogan, M.D., a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Harvard Medical School, who is both a psychiatrist and a concert pianist, is the 2017 Leonard Visiting Scholar to Vanderbilt. The Department of Medicine and the Blair School of Music are sponsoring two musical performances at the Blair School of Music: Wednesday, Feb....
Garraway creates scholarship in honor of Levi Watkins Jr.
Jan. 19, 2017—The newly created scholarship honors Levi Watkins Jr., M.D., who was the first African-American to graduate from the School of Medicine. Annie Marie Garraway, Ph.D., has created the Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Scholarship in honor of her late brother, Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Annie Marie Garraway, Ph.D. The gift honors the memory of Watkins, who...
MLK lecturer sees teamwork as crucial to health care diversity
Jan. 19, 2017—David Gordon, M.D., dean of the University of Akron College of Health Professions, gave the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday at Vanderbilt, touching on the theme of teamwork as it relates to health care diversity. David Gordon, M.D., dean of the University of Akron College of Health Professionals, delivers the Martin...
Center for Quantitative Sciences requests feedback about Summer Institute course offerings
Jan. 14, 2017—The Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences within the School of Medicine hosts its 4th annual Summer Institute Aug. 7–18, 2017, and requests feedback regarding this year’s course offerings. The CQS Summer Institute provides graduate students, research fellows, faculty members and investigators an opportunity to gain fundamental skills to apply the theory and methods behind the design...
Team’s discovery offers new insight on lung cancer risk
Jan. 12, 2017—Researchers in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering at Vanderbilt University have discovered a proteomic “signature” from the airways of heavy smokers that could lead to better risk assessment and perhaps new ways to stop lung cancer before it starts. Their findings, reported recently in the journal JCI Insight, are based on the observation that...
MNPS senior’s Vanderbilt study advances in Regeneron science competition
Jan. 5, 2017—School for Science and Math participant Anagha Ashokan (photo provided) Anagha Ashokan, a member of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt and a senior at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School, is a semifinalist in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Her project was a collaboration with a Vanderbilt researcher as part of her...
Discovery sheds new light on Angelman, Prader-Willi syndromes
Dec. 22, 2016—Researchers who helped uncover a new genetic clue to Angelman syndrome include, from left, Janice Williams, Ph.D., Terry Jo Bichell, Ph.D., Jing-Qiong Kang, M.D., Ph.D., Ryan Delahanty, Ph.D., Kelli Boyd, DVM, Ph.D., Robert Macdonald, M.D., Ph.D., and Wangzhen Shen. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Meredith Jackson A mutation associated with epilepsy and autism also is...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds study of health, economic effects of LGBT-related laws
Dec. 19, 2016—Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter (Vanderbilt University) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has granted $400,000 to Vanderbilt University to fund a two-year interdisciplinary analysis of the health impacts of recent laws and public policies affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, as well as on local economic and business outcomes. Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter, professor of...
Research that ruled in 2016: Readers’ favorite stories
Dec. 16, 2016—2016 gave us another year of fascinating and diverse discoveries. Our researchers developed innovations that improved our health, brought us closer to a more sustainable future, revealed surprising new details about life on Earth and the stars above our heads, gave us new insight into some of the most complex aspects of human society and even...