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5 days ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Nominations for the 2025 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are invited through June 27. Candidates for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are graduate students in biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt (PhD or MD/PhD track) who have completed the qualifying exam and have at least one year left to complete the PhD degree.
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5 days ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
When sculptor Alan LeQuire began planning his new “Monumental Figures” exhibit for the Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park, one person kept coming to mind: Mildred T. Stahlman, MD, who pioneered the treatment of lung disease in premature infants at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Although she was but 5 feet, 2 inches tall, with piercing blue eyes and hair usually kept neatly in a bun, Stahlman had a fierce reputation among the physicians she trained.
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1 week ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Edward (Ed) Zavala, MBA, FAST, a national leader in transplant administration, organ procurement policy and education, will retire June 30 from his position as administrator of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Knowledge is tested by experience. Experience generates new knowledge. This cycle — the basis for Learning Health Systems (LHS) and implementation science — is a powerful wheel that can transform healthcare delivery. “We have our work cut out for us,” said Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, Vice President for Health System Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in opening the sixth annual Vanderbilt LHS Symposium on May 13.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Huda Akil, PhD, an internationally known neuroscientist whose research has helped reveal the fundamental nature of anxiety, depression, pain and addiction, is the recipient of the 2025 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science. Akil, who was awarded the National Medal of Science by then-President Joe Biden in 2023, is the Gardner C.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Two early-career faculty members in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have been awarded prestigious fellowships by the Francis Family Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri. They are Scott McCall, MD, PhD, instructor in Medicine, and Kevin Seitz, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Medicine. “It is an honor for our division to have two Parker B. Francis Fellows this year,” said Division Director Anna Hemnes, MD, professor of Medicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is essential for the development of kidney fibrosis, tissue scarring following injury that can lead to kidney failure. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center show in a mouse model that deletion of EGFR from myeloid cells, a type of immune cell that arises from the bone marrow, accelerated recovery from acute kidney injury and reduced subsequent fibrosis.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
The non-profit Tennessee Donor Services and the Nashville Sounds will host a special Donate Life Game on Wednesday, May 21, to honor organ donors and celebrate lives saved through organ donation. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to TDS.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Michigan Medical School have been awarded a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine how the immune system drives inflammatory arthritis in patients with psoriasis. The research potentially may lead to better ways to treat psoriatic arthritis, a debilitating yet poorly understood joint disease that affects approximately 1 million people in the United States.
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1 month ago | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder
Two faculty members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”They are Heidi Hamm, PhD, the Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Professor of Cardiovascular Research and former chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH, the Ernest W.
