TIPs 2017

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) In living organisms, several single cells interact in non-intuitive ways to support complex functions such as cognition, cardiovascular integrity and immunity. Rare single cells often maintain tissue health or, conversely, drive disease. A current challenge is to understand how large ensembles… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The initiative aims to develop a tool within the EPIC health platform to capture obesity data, catalyze trans-disciplinary conversations with area experts and improve behavioral interventions for dissemination. Two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese and… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The VUSAT initiative brings together the advanced resources of Engineering, Anthropology, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Astronomy to design and develop a Space-based platform to study the evolving ecology on earth. The overarching goal is to develop valuable knowledge in climate… Read More