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With their current approach, energy companies can extract about 35 percent of the oil in each well. Every 1 percent above that, compounded across thousands of wells, can mean billions of dollars in additional revenue for the companies and supply for consumers.

A potential cancer drug aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of ionizing radiation in lung cancer patients is a step closer to development with funding support from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant.

Learn from Provost Susan R. Wente about L-POD and its role in the Academic Strategic Plan and the Provost’s Initiative for Enhancing Research and Scholarship (PIERS).

The Nashville Technology Council (NTC) has officially announced that Kevin Johnson, Chief Informatics Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, will be inducted into the NTC Hall of Fame for 2018.

Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is used to treat chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) — a complication of bone marrow or stem cell transplant that occurs when donor cells attack the recipient. How ECP works is unclear, and standardized treatment guidelines have not been established.