Vanderbilt students take HHMI fellowships
Two Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students will be taking a year off from school and delving into research with the help of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Training Fellowships. ... ...Second-year student James Peacock will be engaged in immunology research at Columbia University, and third-year student Olga Weinberg will spend next year at UCLA studying estrogen recept...Vanderbilt's John Oates wins clinical research award
John A. Oates Jr., M.D., Thomas F. Frist Sr. Professor of Medicine and professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, received the Sixteenth Annual Award of Excellence in Clinical Research from the General Clinical Research Centers Program April 17. ...The award acknowledges outstanding clinical research, supported by the National Center for Research Resources of the National...Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
Doctors at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital have found a whole new use for the popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. ...Sildenafil, as it is called by its more anonymous chemical name, may have the power to save babies. ...Chronic pulmonary hypertension is virtually a death sentence in newborn babies. It can begin with a heart defect, or for reasons that are not well explained; but when the bl...Vanderbilt doctors find citrus soda interacts with cyclosporine, maybe statins
... ... ...Bill Turner, 35, never knew that drinking a popular beverage could send his recovery from a double-lung transplant on a mysterious roller coaster ride. ...It took a team of medical sleuths at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to discover that the wild up-and-down swings in levels of the anti-rejection drug cyclosporine were fueled by the Sun Drop soft drink Turner drank to quench...Vanderbilt researchers receive fellowships to support early identification, genetic causes of autism
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigators have been awarded mentor-based fellowships by the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) to advance the study of autism....... Wendy Stone, professor of pediatrics, received a NAAR post-doctoral fellowship for researcher Lynnette Henderson to develop a downward age extension of Stone's Screening Tool for Autism in Two-year-olds...Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
NASHVILLE -- AIDS research in Nashville -- and research into racial disparities related to the disease nationwide -- has been given a big boost with the establishment of a new, federally funded center to be operated jointly by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College. ...The Vanderbilt Meharry Developmental Center for AIDS Research, supported by a three-year, $750,000-a-ye...The manifold interactions of light and matter play a critical role in the drama of life. They provide the energy that makes life possible, as well as the vision required to appreciate its beauty. In the last 200 years, scientists have learned a tremendous amount about the nature of light and of matter. Yet there are still significant gaps in our understanding of this fundamental interplay which t...National Cancer Institute designates Vanderbilt-Ingram a Comprehensive Cancer Center
. Nashville, TN (March 9, 2001) -- The National Cancer Institute has designated the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest ranking awarded cancer centers by the federal government, Sen. Bill Frist announced here today. . Vanderbilt-Ingram is the only center in Tennessee to join the top tier of cancer centers nationwide. This network of 39 institutions...Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify 'oops center' in the brain
. . . . . Have you ever wondered whats going on in your head when you say, Ooops! . Neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University have come up with an answer. They have shown that a set of neurons in a specific region of the brain reacts when you realize that you have made a mistake.. The finding, reported in the Dec. 14 issue of the journal Nature, was made by post-doctoral fellows Veit Stuphorn a...Procter & Gamble donates proprietary "super aspirin" technology to Vanderbilt University
.NASHVILLE, TN (November 2, 2000) - The next "super aspirin" may be among a collection of 196 patents and pending patents given today to Vanderbilt University by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG). P&G's proprietary COX-2 Inhibitor Technology shows promise in improving the safety of medications commonly taken for pain, inflammation, and fever reduction. .Along with the patents, P&G...Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace
Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace . <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" .ONLOAD="if(parent.frames.length!=0)top.location='http://www.eurekalert.org/news.pub.html'.;"> EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 8 SEPTEMBER 2000 .AT 00:15 ET US <A .HREF="mailto:david.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu">david.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu 615-34.3-6803 <FONT .SIZE=+2>Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried...Matrisian named Vanderbilt's first chair of cancer biology
.The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has created a new Department of Cancer Biology, its first new basic science department since the establishment of Microbiology and Immunology 45 years ago.. Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., associate director for education in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and internationally recognized researcher in the role of proteolytic enzymes in cancer, has be...Vanderbilt Researcher: Human Brain Has Great Sense Of Timing
.NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Picture a marching band on the football field during.halftime. With precise steps, some band members turn and march in a different.direction than the rest, spelling out a school's letters or a mascot's shape. .Scientists have known for years that to perceive figures against such a busy.background, human vision uses color, brightness and direction of motion. But.startling ne...Vanderbilt Medical Students Study Effects Of Vibration On Infant Health
.Transporting critically sick infants to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.from community hospitals is a feat made possible by the Newborn Emergency.Transport Program's state-of-the-art vehicles.. .But little was known about whether continuous vibrations inside the "Angel" and."Cherub" transport ambulances affect the tiny, delicate cargo inside.. .Two second-year Vanderbilt University School...Vanderbilt University Medical Center Forms Institute For Coffee Studies
.A cup 'o Joe is hot these days in more than the literal sense.. .Half of Americans drink coffee every day, and in recent years coffee houses.featuring exotic roasts and flavors have sprung up all over the country. While.the beverage has become an essential part of contemporary life, humans have been.drinking coffee for centuries. Still, little is known about coffee's chemical.make-up and what i...Mouse Model For Huntington's Disease Developed By NIH, Vanderbilt
. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with a.Vanderbilt University Medical Center neuropathologist, have genetically.engineered and studied mice that mimic the behavioral and pathological changes.of Huntington's disease.. The achievement holds promise as an important step in understanding the.role of the Huntington's disease (HD) gene, which was disco...