Multi-Year AVCF Initiatives
Program in Law and Business
Contact: Prof. Randall Thomas, Law School

Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
Contact: Prof. John Wikswo, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Contact: Prof. Len Feldman, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Center for the Americas
Contact: Prof. Vera Kutzinski, Department of English

Center for the Study of Religion and Culture
Contact: Prof. Volney Gay, Chair, Department of Religion
Prof. Douglas Knight, Chair, Graduate Dept. of Religion

Advanced Computing Center for Education and Research (ACCRE)
Contact: Prof. Paul Sheldon, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Prof. Ronald Schrimpf, Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Computer Science
Prof. David Piston
, Dept. of Mol. Physiology and Biophysics, VUMC

Learning Sciences Institute
Contact: Prof. Steve Elliott, Peabody College
Prof. Virginia Shepherd, VUMC

Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Contact: Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Dept. of Psychology

Research in Proteomics and Functional Biology (Composite of four initiatives)
1. Proteomics Laboratory, Prof. Richard Caprioli and Prof. Andrew Link, VUMC
2. Gene Profiling Laboratory, Prof. Shawn Levy, VUMC
3. The Cryo-Electron-Microscopy Facility, Prof. Phoebe Stewart, VUMC
4. Animal and Human Research Imaging Facility, Prof. John Gore, BME and VUMC

Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
Contact: Prof. Larry Marnett, Dept. of Toxicology, VUMC
Prof. Ned Porter, Dept. of Chemistry

Functional Genomics of the Zebrafish
Contact: Prof. Alfred George, Depts. of Pharmacology and Medicine, VUMC