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The Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center has been awarded a Center of Excellence grant from the National Institutes of Health. The announcement comes nearly five years after the creation of an exploratory National Institute on Aging-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, led by Angela Jefferson. Read More

Vanderbilt Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research members presented their research at the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles conference in Vienna, Austria in late April. Read More

University of California, San Diego biochemist Jin Zhang delivered a School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture on April 17 about signaling networks and biosensor development. Read More

University of California, San Diego, Professor of Pharmacology Jin Zhang will present the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture on April 17, 2025. Read More

University of California, San Diego, Professor of Pharmacology Jin Zhang will present the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture on April 17, 2025. Read More

Ryan Hibbs, professor and chair of neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego, will present the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture on March 27, 2025. Read More

Whitehead Institute Professor of Biology David Bartel will present a Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Apex Lecture on Feb. 11, 2025. Read More

2000s Renee Iacona, PhD’08, has been named AstraZeneca’s chief operating officer for oncology R&D in addition to her role as vice president of oncology biometrics. 2010s Nicole Perry-Hauser Nicole Perry-Hauser, PhD’19, has accepted a position as a lecturer, on a research and teaching track, at the School of Molecular Biosciences… Read More

The hard work of the faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who conduct basic biomedical research at Vanderbilt continues to be recognized on the local and national level. Here we list a few of the researchers who have been recently celebrated. Tina Iverson (Pharmacology) received an Innovation Catalyst Fund award… Read More

By Alexandra Scammell The School of Medicine Basic Sciences consists of a remarkable community that is dedicated to advancing the study of human biology, health, and disease. In addition to the award-winning faculty and students who are at the forefront of our cutting-edge research, a large part of our school’s… Read More