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Multicenter team seeks to create at-home artificial lung system
Vanderbilt team to focus on engineering, testing the device by Matt Batcheldor Vanderbilt University Medical Center will share in an $8.7 million federal grant to create an artificial lung system that patients with incurable lung disease can use at home. The Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) grant will fund research to create... Read MoreFebruary 24, 2022
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VUMC and TGen receive $6.1 million in grants to study deadly lung disease
VUMC has received significant grants to study pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and irreversible disease characterized by shortness of breath and a dry cough. Read MoreMarch 28, 2019
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Grant spurs research into trauma-induced vision loss
Tonia Rex, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute are working to uncover how best to treat ocular trauma, the fourth leading cause of blindness worldwide. Read MoreFebruary 4, 2016
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Improving breast cancer chemo by testing tumors in a dish
A team of biomedical engineers has developed a new "tumor-in-a-dish" technology that promises to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read MoreOctober 28, 2014
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Podcast: Commonality for U.S. DoD systems: How far along are we?
Doug Schmidt, professor of computer science, discusses the priorities, challenges, drivers and progress being made in the Department of Defense where open architecture is concerned. Read MoreAugust 14, 2012
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Skeletal defects in genetic disorder
A new mouse model provides a tool for testing novel therapeutic approaches for neurofibromatosis. Read MoreNovember 18, 2011
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Protein family key to aging linked to suppressing tumors
The list of aging-associated proteins known to be involved in cancer is growing longer, according to research by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the National Institutes of Health. Read MoreOctober 28, 2011
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Protein related to aging holds breast cancer clues
David Gius, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues are studying an aging-associated protein’s role in the development of breast cancer in older women. (Vanderbilt University/photo by Mary Donaldson) The most common type of breast cancer in older women – estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PR) positive breast cancer – has been linked to… Read MoreFebruary 1, 2011
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Breast cancer patients with strong social network live longer
(Photo credit: iStock photo) Breast cancer patients who have a strong social support system in the first year after diagnosis are less likely to die or have a recurrence of cancer, according to new research from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Institute of Preventive Medicine. The study, led… Read MoreJanuary 31, 2011