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  • A new therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer that has been granted fast track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is being tested in a phase 3 clinical trial at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

    Nov 18, 2020

  • Younger parents were much less likely than older parents to say they planned to vaccinate their children and themselves against COVID-19.

    Nov 16, 2020

  • Vanderbilt researchers have identified a new molecular partner 鈥 and potential therapeutic target 鈥 in a signaling axis that drives lung cancer.

    Nov 12, 2020

  • A new study from Vanderbilt epidemiologists suggests that it鈥檚 time to reconsider clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in older women.

    Nov 12, 2020

  • A new study sheds light on how molecular subsets within the tumors of kidney cancer patients determine treatment outcomes and underscores the importance of personalized medicine in making therapy decisions.

    Nov 10, 2020

  • Findings from a national study published Nov. 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 鈥渄o not support鈥 the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19, the report concludes.

    Nov 9, 2020

  • Jerri Rook

    Jerri Rook is awarded the Alzheimer鈥檚 Drug Discovery Foundation鈥檚 prestigious Melvin R. Goodes prize

    Behavioral and systems neuropharmacologist Jerri Rook is recognized by the Alzheimer鈥檚 Drug Discovery Foundation with the Goodes Prize to continue her work in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease research. Read More

    Nov 2, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt University anti-inflammatory therapy licensed to Amytrx is now in clinical trials for eczema treatment

    Jacek Hawiger鈥檚 anti-inflammatory peptide therapy, licensed by Amytrx and now in clinical trials, has the potential to safely and effectively treat a multitude of inflammatory and metabolic diseases. Read More

    Oct 27, 2020

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    Vanderbilt researchers make counterintuitive discoveries about immune-like characteristics of cells, chemotherapy鈥檚 impact on tissue growth

    Biologists reveal that tissue perturbations by chemotherapy agents promote stem cell expansion and that fibroblast cells exhibit unexpected, immune-like behavior. Read More

    Oct 15, 2020

  • Two prototype devices could refine thrombectomy through sensory augmentation.

    Oct 14, 2020

  • horses

    Vanderbilt researchers develop publicly available COVID-19 animal susceptibility prediction tool; suggests increased risk to horses

    All-remote collaboration results in free animal susceptibility tool to help prioritize research and closer examination of at-risk species. Read More

    Oct 6, 2020

  • Nominations for the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science are now being accepted. The nomination deadline is Dec. 11.

    Oct 5, 2020

  • Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified antibodies that, in animals, block infection by alphaviruses, which can cause chronic and debilitating joint pain and arthritis and are an increasing global health concern.

    Sep 20, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a one-year, $34-million grant by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct a nationwide study of 鈥渃onvalescent plasma鈥 as a treatment for COVID-19.

    Sep 20, 2020

  • A small-molecule 鈥渟cavenger鈥 that reduces inflammation and formation of atherosclerotic plaque in blood vessels in mice potentially could lead to a new approach for treating atherosclerosis in humans, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

    Sep 20, 2020

  • Taking an interest in electronic message threads between surgical patients and their health care teams, a research group at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tested how well certain commonly used machine learning algorithms can classify such exchanges according to their clinical decision-making complexity.

    Aug 27, 2020

  • While 60 percent of people with metastatic melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, have multiple treatment options available to them, roughly 40 percent either do not respond to treatment, or relapse.

    Aug 19, 2020

  • An inflammatory factor in mucus could be a biomarker of treatment-resistant chronic sinusitis used to determine which patients are at risk for repeat sinus surgery.

    Aug 11, 2020

  • Each week a woman consumes alcohol during the first five to 10 weeks of pregnancy is associated with an incremental 8% increase in risk of miscarriage, according to a study published this week by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers.

    Aug 10, 2020

  • A computational technique that combines the effect of multiple genomic variants has the potential to identify high-risk individuals for cancer prevention.

    Aug 10, 2020