Trans-Institutional Programs

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) From cancer to diabetes to chronic infections, our immune system plays an important role in nearly every disease. Accordingly, harnessing the power and exquisite specificity of the immune system has enormous – and still largely untapped – potential to improve human health and wellbeing. Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) A perfect storm is brewing involving civil infrastructure protection. On one hand, infrastructure protection systems are exposed to more natural disturbances with ever increasing severity, as a consequence of climate change. On the other, the nation’s civil infrastructure is aging and in poor health,… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Despite the critically important information that metabolomics analysis provides and despite the world renowned strengths in mass spectrometry that Vanderbilt possesses, the university does not provide a dedicated metabolomics service. This TIP is establishing a state-of-the-art metabolomics service in the Mass Spectrometry Core of the… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project seeks to build – for the first time at Vanderbilt – an interdisciplinary community of Africanists to explore the topic “Africa at a Crossroads.” Investigators will explore the widespread notion that contemporary socio-economic, cultural and political indicators demonstrate… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The steep rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has focused growing attention on this group of individuals at local, state and federal levels, as well as in policy, legislative and funding initiatives. Despite this concern there remains a dearth of services,… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This transdisciplinary hub of research, discovery and teaching activities will center on elevating and understanding structural barriers and forms of resilience that black women and girls experience across various social contexts in society, and how intersectional interventions might be created to… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project aims to challenge the existing paradigm and expand the understanding of the environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance through research and teaching activities. This program will place Vanderbilt at the forefront of efforts to disseminate awareness, educate and identify effective… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Inspired by UNESCO’s mission to protect cultural heritage in danger of destruction, this program will harness expertise across multiple disciplines and schools at Vanderbilt to develop new digital methods for identifying, studying and preserving historic cultural expressions. This project connects humanistic… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Many of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and the biggest research questions facing faculty from across disciplines, have significant spatial dimensions that require sophisticated geospatial thinking, technology, modeling and analysis. Effective geospatial research and education requires intentionally transdisciplinary programs aimed at… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (ViA) From drug-resistant pathogens to therapeutic probiotics, microorganisms (‘microbes’) dramatically impact all human life, and a deeper understanding of human-microbe relationships will generate new therapies to improve health and treat infections. However, just as every human individual is profoundly unique, so too… Read More