Monthly Archives: January 2019

The dinner and auction is the first of two annual fundraising events supporting the Shade Tree Clinic, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student-run clinic that provides free health care and medications for Nashville’s underserved population. Continue reading →

Jeremy Warner, MD, MS, associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop software that will help clinicians keep up with the increasing complexity of cancer care. Continue reading →

A team of Vanderbilt investigators has pinpointed the role of bile acids and a specific signaling pathway in the positive metabolic effects of weight-loss surgery. The findings could guide new treatment strategies for obesity and diabetes, which contin… Continue reading →

Craig Lindsley, PhD, director of medicinal chemistry in the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, will receive the inaugural Scientific Achievement Award in Drug Discovery and Development during the ASPET Annual Meeting in April. Continue reading →

Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine, said the research published recently in Gastroenterology is the second largest discovery of novel genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer in a single study published to date. Continue reading →

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center performed 502 transplants between its adult and children’s hospitals, topping its previous record of 462 in 2017. As a result, VUMC now ranks as the sixth largest transplant hospital by volume in the nation. Continue reading →

Patients with cirrhosis are at high risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and often have increased serum levels of estrogen. It is not clear how estrogen promotes hepatic growth. We investigated the effects of estrogen on hepatocyte proliferation dur… Continue reading →