VICC leaders active in new Cancer Moonshot recommendations
As part of the national Cancer Moonshot initiative, a Blue Ribbon Panel of cancer leaders, including Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) director Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., has delivered a series of recommendations to accelerate the pace of cancer prevention efforts and scientific discovery. View...
Message from Executive Sponsors: Adult pertussis booster immunization documentation due Dec. 1 for some patient care personnel
In addition to continuing the mandatory immunization requirements of MMR, Varicella, Hepatitis B, and annual influenza, team members working in Adult Emergency, Life Flight, Women's Health, and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt must document immunization compliance with an adult pertussis booster (Tdap) by Dec. 1. View...
Investigators create "Trojan Horse" to fight Ebola
A multi-center research team including scientists from the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center has come up with a clever "Trojan Horse" strategy for thwarting the highly lethal Ebola virus. View...
From Vanderbilt Medicine: Global ambition
Growing up in the small rural village of Yetebon, Ethiopia, Kidane Amare Sarko could step just outside his thatched-roof, mud and wood hut and see his future. View...
VUMC in the news
A roundup of a few recent positive stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...