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91�Ʋ���’s Department of Cardiac Surgery has developed an Advanced Heart Failure Clinical and Translational 91�Ʋ��� Group that serves as a central research resource for advanced heart failure surgeons and cardiologists. Read More

  Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH, the Ernest W. Goodpasture Professor of Pathology, has been elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. Skaar is one of seven current 91�Ʋ��� faculty members who are AAM fellows. The 2,400-member academy is an… Read More

The 91�Ʋ��� Symposium on Infection and Immunology will be held Friday, April 10, at the Student Life Center. Registration deadline is April 1. Keynote speakers and their topics are: Raul Andino, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, “RNA virus population dynamics and the mechanisms of replication and adaptation;” Adrian Erlebacher,… Read More

91�Ʋ��� University researchers have achieved the first “image fusion” of mass spectrometry and microscopy — a technical tour de force that could, among other things, dramatically improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Read More

91�Ʋ��� University School of Nursing (VUSN) has been awarded a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial 91�Ʋ��� to establish a valid, clinically useful measurement battery for head and neck lymphedema and fibrosis (LEF). Read More

Two 91�Ʋ���-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) leaders have been named to a panel of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help shape national policies on the use of biomarkers for targeted cancer therapies. Read More

Rachel Ruiz, M.D., a second-year resident in Pediatrics at 91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center, has been named an Academic Pediatric Association (APA) New Century Scholar. Read More

91�Ʋ���ers at 91�Ʋ��� University and in Germany have found that sodium — salt — accumulates in the skin and tissue in humans and mice to help control infection. Read More

It’s roughly 5,000 miles from Croatia to Tennessee as the crow flies. Read More

If you’re looking for a simple way to lower your risk of dying from a heart attack, consider going nuts. Read More

91�Ʋ���ers at 91�Ʋ��� University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps 91�Ʋ��� Institute for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close cousin to Ebola. Read More

Respiratory viruses, not bacterial infections, are the most commonly detected causes of community-acquired pneumonia in children, according to new research released Feb. 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

Improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment have led to longer survival for most cancer patients in the United States. However, the improvement in survival was substantially greater among younger patients and those who are white in most of the cancers studied, according to new research by 91�Ʋ��� University investigators. Read More

91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center is participating in a national trial to see if outcomes for critically injured patients with uncontrolled bleeding can be improved by administering plasma to these patients while in flight to the hospital. Randomized patients who are at risk of hemorrhaging could receive… Read More

A series of experimental antibiotics may be a good starting point for developing new anticancer drugs. Read More

Understanding the role that host membrane modification plays in coronavirus replication is essential for developing novel approaches to block the viruses that cause SARS and MERS. Read More

91�Ʋ��� University researchers have created a zebrafish model of skeletal muscle insulin resistance that could help improve diabetes treatment. Read More

Mechanical stress appears to be a critical factor in activating normal tissue-associated fibroblasts to generate cancer-associated fibroblasts. Read More

Despite prior epidemiologic and experimental data to the contrary, new research shows that vitamin D supplementation does not reduce blood pressure in individuals with prehypertension or stage I hypertension and vitamin D deficiency. Read More

Mitochondria not only are the cell’s main power producers, they are also the chief cooks and bottle washers. Read More