A joint symposium hosted by the Center for Structural Biology and the Center for AI in Protein Dynamics featured internal and visiting speakers and underscored the increasing integration of structural biology and computational techniques.

Contributed commentary by Cherie Saffold on federal budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

Vanderbilt Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research members presented their research at the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles conference in Vienna, Austria in late April.

Diana Mitrea gave a talk for the Vanderbilt ASPIRE program’s Ph.D. Career Stories seminar series. She outlined her role as head of scientific and corporate communication at Dewpoint Therapeutics and her career transition from academia to industry.

The Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research, which is made up of over 20 laboratories spanning Vanderbilt University, held its annual retreat in late September. Researchers discussed the types of biomolecular cargoes EVs contain and how EVs holding unique cargoes can be used as diagnostic tools.

The Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences’ pharmacology department and the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research hosted a special event on April 22 focused on the importance of funding for diverse trainees and faculty in academic settings.

She doesn’t want students thinking about careers to be as unaware of STEM fields as she was as a girl

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered another acid resistance mechanism for UTI-causing E. coli, laying the foundation for targeted antibacterial therapies.