Research, News & Discoveries

by Marissa Shapiro Jun. 10, 2021, 9:00 AM THE IDEA Lisa Monteggia, professor of pharmacology, and collaborators have provided evidence about how ketamine works as a rapid-acting antidepressant in the brain. The research reinforces the hypothesis that the glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor on… Read More

Jun. 8, 2021, 9:53 AM From left, Taylor Smith, MS, Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, Jozef Zienkiewicz, PhD, and Yan Liu, MD, and colleagues developed a peptide that may protect against life-threatening microbial inflammation with underlying metabolic syndrome. Photo courtesy Hawiger lab A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro Jun. 2, 2021, 9:00 AM THE IDEA Sandra Rosenthal, Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry and professor of pharmacology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, and collaborators have proposed that the seasonal rate of change in daylight has the greatest… Read More

Faculty Mentor of the Year Recipients of the Faculty Mentor of the Year award must demonstrate a willingness to share expertise and advice; service to the community at large, including other mentoring activities; and scholarship within the mentor’s own career, including publications, awards, presentations and honors. The Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association… Read More

May. 25, 2021, 2:00 PM The Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs announced its 2021 award winners at the Spring Postdoc Awards ceremony on May 24. Postdoc of the Year The Postdoc of the Year award recognizes a postdoctoral scholar who demonstrates excellence in research and… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro May. 24, 2021, 9:00 AM by Miquéla Thornton An international collaboration led by Vanderbilt researchers has found that a novel form of brain cell communication may influence brain function. The discovery was uncovered by Natalí L. Chanaday, postdoctoral scholar,… Read More

Lorena Infante Lara The School of Medicine’s umbrella Ph.D. programs, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences and the Quantitative and Chemical Biology program, recruited 67 and 19 incoming graduate students, respectively. The new students will arrive on campus in August to… Read More

by Marissa Shapiro May. 11, 2021, 9:00 AM THE IDEA A novel neuroimaging study provides the first evidence that a small region of the brain, called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, has gender-based network structural connectivity differences in early abstinence from alcohol. Read More

The 2021 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Outstanding Contributions to Research and Extraordinary Performance of Clinical Service were presented April 30 during the annual spring faculty meeting, held virtually this year via Zoom. The recipients are listed below: EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING   Recipient of… Read More

May. 6, 2021, 9:37 AM The team studying the regulation of innate immune response includes (front row, from left) Yang Zhao, PhD, Antiana Richardson, (back row, from left) William Dunker, Xiang Ye, PhD, and John Karijolich, PhD. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Leigh MacMillan A protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases… Read More