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Eleven outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2019 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows.

Four Vanderbilt Technologies Earn Patent Protection in April. There have been 59 U.S. Patents issued in FY19.

Using a unique computational framework they developed, a team of scientist cyber-sleuths in the Vanderbilt University Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI) has identified 104 high-risk genes for schizophrenia.

Now in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Vsevolod Gurevich, PhD, and colleagues show that a glycine residue at the beginning of the finger loop is critical for the arrestin-GPCR interaction.

Reporting this month in the journal Calcified Tissue International, Jonathan Schoenecker, MD, PhD, and colleagues led by Stephanie Moore-Lotridge, PhD, suggest a new paradigm for HO formation.

In a series of studies, Eric Skaar, PhD, and colleagues have characterized how A. baumannii — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia — responds to zinc starvation.

A report by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has shattered conventional wisdom about how cells, including cancer cells, shed DNA into the bloodstream: they don’t do it by packaging the genetic material in tiny vesicles called exosomes.