Research Enterprise Newsletter - March 2008: Faculty News
VUSM vaults into NIH funding Top 10
Vanderbilt School of Medicine is now ranked No. 10 among U.S. medical schools for NIH funding in fiscal year 2007. While many of last year's top-ranked medical schools experienced flat or even decreasing funding, Vanderbilt's grant funding increased from $245.6 million to $282.3 million, an increase of $36.7 million - the largest among the top 10 schools of medicine. While the NIH no longer publishes rankings of individual schools or departments, the NIH Web site provides a database that lists all grants and contracts awarded to schools of medicine in the United States. According to an analysis of those figures, Vanderbilt rose from 12th place last year to 10th in the nation in FY07, passing the University of Michigan, which dropped from No. 11 to No. 13, and Stanford University, which fell from 10th to 12th.
Dermody to head Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Terence Dermody, M.D., has been named to direct Vanderbilt's Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He succeeds Peter Wright, M.D., who retired as division director last July to split his teaching and research time between Vanderbilt and Dartmouth. Dermody joined the Department of Pediatrics in 1990. He is also professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt and adjunct professor of Biomedical Sciences at Meharry Medical College. Dermody directs the Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research and the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, including a MERIT award, and the Lamb Family Foundation.
Gore lands 7 Tesla grant, gives invited lectures
Vanderbilt has been awarded a grant for $5,730,153 to develop high field magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. The award from the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering is to Dr. John Gore to support the development and application of MRI and MRS at 7 Tesla. Gore also was the invited plenary speaker on "Challenges and Opportunities of Ultra High Field MRI" at the Annual Meeting of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego on February 18. He also was an invited speaker at the Second International Workshop on Molecular Imaging in Animals in Taiwan on February 2.
Caprioli lands "Most-Cited Article"
Richard Caprioli's article "Automated Acoustic Matrix Deposition for MALDI Sample Preparation," published in Analytical Chemistry, is being featured on the ACS Publications web site as one of the Most-Cited Articles published in 2006 and cited through the period ending December 31, 2007. Most-Cited Articles listed are based on data from Thomson Web of Science®.
