A VUMC parking valet taught himself origami art to share with children. For one little boy, that means everything.

Coming in for treatment is hard for 5-year-old Ollie Faircloth, but seeing valet Mohamed Elshami brings a smile every time. Ollie calls Mohamed his friend. Mohamed calls Ollie his hero. View...

Registration open for event to celebrate VUMC employees on March 7-8

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hosting a special employee appreciation event -- Celebrate the Difference WE Make Every Day! -- to applaud recent successes and acknowledge the many contributions of the Medical Center's employees during three sessions on March 7-8. View...

Cell death pathway implicated in bone marrow failure

The production of blood cells in the bone marrow -- hematopoiesis -- requires a careful balance between cell division, maturation and death. Vanderbilt investigators have now discovered that disrupting that balance and pushing cells to die a certain way, by a pathway called necroptosis, leads to bone marrow failure in mice that resembles the human disease myelodysplastic syndrome. View...

Nasal whooping cough vaccine trial underway at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt vaccine researchers are enrolling adult volunteers in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Phase II clinical trial that will study a next generation pertussis vaccine that may protect people from whooping cough. View...

Study explores genetic risk for suicide attempt

Using data from the UK Biobank and Vanderbilt's BioVU, a new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry finds that approximately 4 percent of suicide attempt risk is captured by genotype data. View...

For Chipps, acceptance, understanding are crucial

According to Teresa Chipps, research teams at Vanderbilt may not always have direct patient contact, but their goals remain closely tied to the ones of those who live in the clinical world. View...

"Momentum": Bountiful baker

Will Mason Moses spent many hours of his college summer vacation baking cookies, brownies, cobblers, doughnuts and cakes and making savory items such as sausage balls, candied bacon, hummus and queso to hand-deliver to oncology nurses at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt three times a week. The 20-year-old sophomore at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) said whipping up the goodies was a small act of gratitude for the health care team that was instrumental in saving his life. View...

VUMC in the news

A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...