Daily Archives: February 4, 2019

Come cheer on the Vanderbilt Lady Commodores basketball team as they take on the Alabama Crimson Tide, Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is offering free tickets to employees and their families as appreciation for all y… Continue reading →

According to Teresa Chipps, research teams at Vanderbilt may not always have direct patient contact, but their goals remain closely tied to the ones of those who live in the clinical world. Continue reading →

The Lunar New Year Festival (previously known as the Asian New Year Festival) celebrates the coming of the lunar new year by bringing Vanderbilt students together through culturally relevant performances originating from a diverse group of Asian cultur… Continue reading →

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has established a named lecture, the Dr. Harold Jordan Diversity and Inclusion Lecture, named after the first African-American resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Using data from the UK Biobank and Vanderbilt’s BioVU, a new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry finds that approximately 4 percent of suicide attempt risk is captured by genotype data. Continue reading →

Vanderbilt vaccine researchers are enrolling adult volunteers in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Phase II clinical trial that will study a next generation pertussis vaccine that may protect people from whooping cough. Continue reading →

The production of blood cells in the bone marrow — hematopoiesis — requires a careful balance between cell division, maturation and death.
Vanderbilt investigators have now discovered that disrupting that balance and pushing cells to die a certain w… Continue reading →