Karen Davis

The Center for Structural Biology welcomes Sai Medury and Mariam Haider to the team! Sai Medury, Computation Sai is as associate system administrator brought in to help maintain and troubleshoot CSB systems. He plays the role of CSB liaison to ACCRE and will work closely… Read More

Usher in the holidays with VI4 and CSB at the Way Late Play Date: Wizarding World at Adventure Science Center on Thursday, December 16, 6:30 – 10 PM. The evening includes a Hogwarts House hat sorting, wand making and other magical… Read More

Noah Bradley Congratulations to Noah Bradley, of the Eichman Lab, for being named the 2022 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “I am very grateful and humbled to receive this award,” Noah said. Noah joined Brandt Eichman’s lab in 2017 after graduating… Read More

John Jumper, PhD Vanderbilt alum Dr. John Jumper took a unique path to becoming research lead for the groundbreaking protein structure prediction database, AlphaFold. Jumper is a research scientist at DeepMind and leads a team developing new computational methods to enable… Read More

Larry Marnett Lawrence J. Marnett, PhD, will step down as dean of Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine Basic Sciences effective June 30, 2022. He was its inaugural dean and key in leading its ascension as one of the nation’s top biomedical research & doctoral… Read More

Norie Sugitani, Ph.D., completed her doctoral work at Vanderbilt in 2017. Her aspirations to become an astronaut led her from her birthplace in Western Japan to the United States, eventually leading her to the lab of Walter Chazin. A major health challenge facing astronauts is high… Read More

Teru Nakagawa, professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, serves as the scientific director for the CSB Cryo-EM facility, but he’s also very involved in other programs and centers, including the Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program… Read More

Breann Brown and Will Wan, both assistant professors of biochemistry and CSB faculty, have been awarded NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards. They are among three Vanderbilt researchers to receive an award for their high-risk, high-reward… Read More

Congratulations to Chuck Sanders, professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, on receiving the 2021 Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award from the Department of Biochemistry! Chuck was selected for his outstanding and tireless dedication to mentoring approximately 20 undergraduate students, 12 graduate students and 29 current… Read More

Breann Brown, Ph.D., came to Vanderbilt University in January 2019 after completing a postdoc at MIT in the lab of Dr. Tania Baker. Although a relatively new PI, the assistant professor in Biochemistry recognizes the importance that donuts can have on lab productivity! Read more… Read More