Jennifer (Piper) Below named director of Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
Effective April 1, Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, will lead VGI, the intellectual hub for genomics research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University.
Where are all the Alzheimer’s drugs?
A new study will use innovative methods developed at VUMC to look for drugs already approved for other uses that could potentially be repurposed to treat Alzheimer’s.
Evolution, genomics and disease: a very special Discovery Lecture
Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, a renowned human geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science. Kimberlyn Ellis, a graduate student in the…
$20 million grant supports sweeping study of human viruses
The grant will help establish the Vanderbilt-coordinated Virus Characterization Center, or V2C2. Vanderbilt Genetics Institute members will participate in the effort to characterize the human…
VUMC part of multisite team investigating genetic markers of anorexia nervosa
With funding from the newly established Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation, the researchers hope to identify biomarkers that will point to novel targets for prevention and treatment…