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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.

L-POD is hosting two research proposal development workshops this fall focused on funding. L-POD, or Leveraged Proposal Organization and Development Program, is part of the Office of Research Development and Support.

Bile acids — gut compounds that aid in the digestion of dietary fats — reduce the desire for cocaine, according to a new study by researchers at Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

On the heels of Immersion Vanderbilt’s formal launch, Design as an Immersive Vanderbilt Experience offers four DIVE Boot Camps this fall for students, faculty and staff.

Efforts to explore the landscape of small RNAs (sRNAs) — short RNA molecules that are poorly understood — often use high-throughput sequencing (sRNA-seq). These efforts are hampered by a lack of tools to identify, quantify and analyze all the different sRNAs in sRNA-seq datasets.