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Â鶹´«Ã½ University School of Nursing Associate Professor of Nursing Stephanie DeVane-Johnson, PhD, MSN’97, CNM, FACNM, has been awarded a two-year Diversity Supplement grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The National Institute of Health (NIH) supplement supports early career researchers of color by providing mentorship, training and career development opportunities...

New research shows that about half of pediatric patients who died of sepsis over the past 20 years at Â鶹´«Ã½ University Medical Center had evidence of an inflammatory state called persistent inflammation, immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome.

In a collaborative effort between Â鶹´«Ã½ University and VUMC, Chuck Sanders and Roy Zent have secured a $1.2 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation for their innovative project, "Genetic Intolerance Patterns as a Treasure Map to Genes that Define Us as Human." The funding will bolster their study of little-known yet crucial proteins, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of human biology and disease. Read More

Â鶹´«Ã½ers at Â鶹´«Ã½ University Medical Center and the University of Oxford have determined how a human monoclonal antibody isolated at Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2021 can prevent infection by the potentially lethal Sin Nombre virus.

Â鶹´«Ã½ University Medical Center and Â鶹´«Ã½ University are launching a $17 million multiyear transformative program with support from the National Institutes of Health to accelerate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the biomedical research community.

Learn about current treatments for cataracts, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma and how new technologies are moving these discoveries forward at the next Lab-to-Table Conversation on June 27. Read More

A Â鶹´«Ã½ study that delved into genetic predisposition for early-onset colorectal cancer by race and ethnicity has identified differing germline risk variants.

Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers Amanda Lea and Wenhan Zhu have been named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars. The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. Read More

Prolific scientist and champion for diversity in STEMM Antentor Hinton Jr. has co-published a cover story in the June edition of the journal Cell that addresses barriers to equitable science, including the toll that institutional racism takes on the mental health of Black individuals. Read More

A study from Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers has found that enhanced treatment support can help smokers who have more difficulty quitting because they are fast metabolizers of nicotine.

Â鶹´«Ã½'s Mariana Byndloss, DVM, PhD, is one of eight Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2023 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease.

Jackson Roberts II, MD, an internationally known clinical pharmacologist in the Â鶹´«Ã½ University School of Medicine who helped define the role of lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in human disease, died May 31 in Nashville. He was 79.

Marie-Claire Harrison, a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Brighter Ventures Student Award. The Brighter Ventures Student Award supports Ph.D. students interested in the application of artificial intelligence in the biomedical research field.

Julia Steed will become academic director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ University School of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She replaces Courtney Pitts who led the top-ranked specialty for the past seven years.

The labs of Lauren Jackson and Todd Graham recently published a study in the Journal of Cell Biology describing a significant interaction between an essential protein complex used for protein and lipid transport—the COPI complex—and its regulator protein.

School of Nursing Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Curriculum Affairs Betsy Kennedy, BSN’89, MSN’93, PhD, ANEF, has been named as an Association of Women’s Health and Obstetrics Neonatal Nurses fellow.

Seed and Series A funding to three startups—HeroWear, IDBiologics and Virtuoso—rooted in research conducted at Â鶹´«Ã½ University and Â鶹´«Ã½ University Medical Center underscore a university-wide commitment to enhanced support for Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s most innovative faculty, students and alumni. Read More

A transcontinental research effort led by scientists from Â鶹´«Ã½ University Medical Center and the University of Michigan has upended some long-standing assumptions about mutations — how often they occur, what causes them and what they do.

Approximately 4,498 students graduated from Â鶹´«Ã½ during the 2022–23 academic year, including approximately 2,689 people receiving graduate and professional degrees. Read More