Funded Academic Initiatives:
Academic Venture Capital Fund (AVCF)

Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)
Prof. Paul Sheldon, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Prof. Ron Schrimpf, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Jason Moore, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, VUMC

Center for the Americas
Prof. Vera Kutzinski, Dept. of English

Center for the Study of Religion and Culture
Prof. Volney Gay, Chair, Dept. of Religion
Prof. Doug Knight, Chair, Graduate Dept. of Religion

Program in Law and Business
Prof. Randall Thomas, Director Law & Business Program

Learning Sciences Institute (LSI)
Prof. Andrew Porter, Peabody College
Prof. Virginia Sheperd, VUMC

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

Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB)
Prof. Larry Marnett, Dept. of Toxicology, VUMC
Prof. Ned Porter, Dept. of Chemistry

Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIBRE)
Prof. John Wikswo, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)
Prof. Len Feldman, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience (CICN)
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