VUMC Faculty

Vanderbilt University announced 10 recipients of the Innovation Catalyst Fund awards for the February 2026 cycle, advancing faculty-led research projects with the potential to address critical societal and health care challenges through translational research. The awards provide strategic funding to support faculty’s technologies from a broad range of disciplines… Read More

Paul Harris, Ph.D., receiving an award from Linda Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., president of ACTS. Photo credit: VUMC. In the early 2000s, Paul Harris, Ph.D. was finishing his biomedical engineering degree at Vanderbilt University, when a part-time job fixing computers at the VUMC’s Clinical Research Center unexpectedly launched… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Innovation Ambassadors Program, launched by the Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC), is transforming how academic discoveries translate into societal impact through a peer-to-peer approach that has become a model for universities nationwide. Through the program, select faculty Ambassadors from different departments at VU and VUMC… Read More

The Vanderbilt Innovation Catalyst Fund, launched in 2023, bridges the gap between academic research and real-world applications by supporting projects with commercial and societal potential. To date, the fund has completed six award cycles, distributing 39 grants to VU and VUMC awardees across diverse disciplines. Already, 16 projects have… Read More

Vanderbilt has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential. This initiative, open to all University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) faculty, addresses pressing real-world challenges. The fund provides essential support in three key areas:… Read More