Monthly Archives: February 2019
Study explores genetic risk for suicide attempt
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
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NIH Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams accepting applications through March 8
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Nasal whooping cough vaccine trial underway at Vanderbilt
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
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Cell death pathway implicated in bone marrow failure
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
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A VUMC parking valet taught himself origami art to share with children. For one little boy, that means everything.
Coming in for treatment is hard for five-year-old Ollie Faircloth, but seeing valet Mohamed Elshami brings a smile every time. Ollie calls Mohamed his friend. Mohamed calls Ollie his hero. Continue reading
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Information session for Neurodiagnostic Technology Program set for Feb. 21
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Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer: Opportunities and Challenges
The vast majority of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) presents with symptomatic, surgically unresectable disease. While the goal of early detection of PDAC is laudable, and likely to result in significant improvement in overall sur… Continue reading
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Fibroblasts in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: biological mechanisms and therapeutic targets
The desmoplastic reaction of pancreas cancer may begin as a wound healing response to the nascent neoplasm, but it soon creates an insidious shelter that can sustain the growing tumor and rebuff therapy. Among the many cell types subverted by transform… Continue reading
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Signaling Networks that Control Cellular Plasticity in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis, Progression and Metastasis
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest cancers, with its incidence on the rise. Major challenges in overcoming the poor prognosis presented by this disease lies in late detection and the aggressive biology of the disease. Intra-tumora… Continue reading
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Pancreatitis in Children
Acute, acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis have been increasingly diagnosed in children within the last two decades. The risk factors in the pediatric age group are broad and they appear to be strikingly different compared to the adult cohort. How… Continue reading
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