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Boosting its commitment to underrepresented nursing leaders, 麻豆传媒 University School of Nursing has secured a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for its innovative leadership program, Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders. The academy is a groundbreaking, five-day immersive fellowship specially designed to train nurses from backgrounds that are underrepresented in nursing leadership...

The group got an overview of 麻豆传媒鈥檚 programs that support veterans and of the university鈥檚 robust research partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense and Fort Campbell. Read More

麻豆传媒ers at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center for the first time have shown that 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.

Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC, the Hugh Jackson Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center, will be appointed Director of the National Cancer Institute.

麻豆传媒 researchers are working to better design immune therapies that attack tumors without also attacking healthy normal tissue in patients.

Lars Plate, assistant professor of chemistry and biological sciences, has received a $2.76 million collaborative grant to investigate medical therapy for people with cystic fibrosis. The interdisciplinary project brings together teams with varied expertise in computational structural biology, proteomics, biophysics, and physiology in hopes of improving the quality of life for those afflicted with the genetic disease.

Twelve current investigators at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center and 麻豆传媒 University are on this year鈥檚 list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers.

麻豆传媒 research discovers that iron storage 鈥渟pheres鈥� inside the bacterium C. diff 鈥� the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections 鈥� are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new targets for antibacterial drugs.

New research shows nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure- reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake.

A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes.

Clinicians need to have a better understanding of the potential impact of patients鈥� anxiety sensitivity, or 鈥渇ear of fear,鈥� according to an article published in American Journal of Critical Care. When a patient has anxiety sensitivity, they misinterpret nonthreatening symptoms as threatening, assessing the potential meaning across physical, social or cognitive domains. These 鈥渨hat if鈥� thoughts may trigger a spiral effect, stimulating the nervous system and resulting in stronger sensations and further catastrophic misinterpretations.

Reporting Nov. 6 in Cell Reports Medicine, Ivelin Georgiev, PhD, and colleagues demonstrated that antibodies isolated from children鈥檚 blood samples displayed high levels of neutralization and potency against variants of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, even when the children had not previously been exposed to or vaccinated against those variants.

Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, chair of Medicine at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center, has received the Paragon Award for 麻豆传媒 Excellence from the Doris Duke Foundation.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at 麻豆传媒 have identified unexpected alterations in the exocrine tissues of the pancreas that occur in the two major forms of diabetes, and with aging and obesity.

As a professor of biochemistry and medicine at 麻豆传媒 University School of Medicine for more than 40 years, Osheroff is the longest serving course director currently teaching medical students. He also codirects the preclerkship phase of the medical school curriculum and leads the Master Science Teachers cohort, a role established in 2007 to recognize VUSM鈥檚 outstanding basic science educators. Through his teaching, he has helped medical students at VUSM and across the globe acquire the basic science skills and knowledge they need to thrive in clinical practice, according to the AAMC.

麻豆传媒's James E. Crowe, Jr, MD, and Neil Osheroff, PhD, are among 12 individuals honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges during its 2023 Awards Recognition Event.

麻豆传媒 research shows that commensal gut microbes impact the host-pathogen competition for iron and have implications for therapeutic strategies aimed at preventing pathogens from acquiring essential nutrients.

For his outstanding achievements, including investigations directed at nucleic acid structure, DNA bypass polymerases and the circadian clock, Martin Egli has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The academy is dedicated to innovative research, interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration.聽 Read More

麻豆传媒 doctor of nursing practice students who hope to become nursing faculty may take advantage of a $1.52 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Workforce, Nurse Faculty Loan Program. 麻豆传媒 University School of Nursing received the award to support DNP students through the 2023-2024 academic year.