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Deliveries and Lost Packages
Any time you are missing a shipment from FedEx, check the Lost & Found area in The Vanderbilt Clinic B702. For further assistance from VUMC supply chain/central receiving team contact:
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Pre-proposals now being accepted for 2025 NIH S10 Shared and High-End Instrumentation Grants
Vanderbilt investigators are eligible for two instrumentation programs offered by the NIH:
Shared Instrumentation Grant Program and High-End Instrumentation Grant Program. The NIH submission deadline for both programs is June 2, 2025. Learn more about S10 grants.
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Read-and-publish agreement enhances support for Vanderbilt research
A three-year read-and-publish agreement, effective through 2026, will enable Vanderbilt-affiliated authors to publish open access in hundreds of Oxford University Press hybrid journals without incurring article processing charges. Learn more about this arrangement.
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Developmental biologists discover how a critical protein shapes gallbladder formation
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Calipari, Townsend recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award
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Elite society honors physician-scientists
Juan Pablo Arroyo Ornelas (Cell and Developmental Biology) received a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society of Clinical Investigation. The award recognizes “notable achievements” by researchers within five years of their first faculty appointment.
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Skaar wins National Academy of Sciences award
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Newly minted graduates
The following graduates successfully defended their dissertation:
- Cancer Biology: Xiaopeng Sun
- Neuroscience: Zahra Farahbakhsh
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Tackling the diabetes epidemic
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$20 million grant supports sweeping study of human viruses
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Thursday, Feb. 6: ChatGPT for Job-Seekers–The Right Way to Use AI to Accelerate Your Search
ASPIRE Up event hosted by the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Virtual. Register for the webinar.
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Wednesday, Feb. 12: 2025 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum
The annual event from Edge for Scholars highlights translational research across the university, VUMC, and Meharry Medical College. It features a keynote and plenary speaker, a trainee poster session, and networking opportunities.
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., Student Life Center. Register for the research forum.
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Friday, Feb. 14: Welcome to “How To—SOMBS”
This will be a brief informational session for new staff members or people who have not previously attended How To! The session will include a refresher on how to access our session recordings and join the team on Microsoft Teams. The session will include some data about our past sessions, so there’s something for our long-term attendees too!
10:00 a.m., Microsoft Teams: Meeting link for the “How To – SOMBS” session
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Friday, Feb. 21: R. Daniel Beauchamp Research Day
Strengthening the culture of research in the Section of Surgical Sciences.
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m.: Keynote talk, “Breaking Down Pancreatic Cancer,” Dr. Jen Jen Yeh. 208 Light Hall.
8:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.: Research day events. Langford lobby.
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Friday, Feb. 28: VUIT Relationship Management
Meet our Basic Sciences VUIT Relationship Management team members and learn about their roles at Vanderbilt and how they work with us to better understand our unique needs and challenges. Hear from them about the importance of getting software approved by VUIT and how we can ensure compliance and security, as well as some current VUIT initiatives.
10:00 a.m., Microsoft Teams: Meeting link for the “How To – SOMBS” session
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Friday, Mar. 14: Artificial Intelligence
Dive into the world of AI with this beginner-friendly session! Discover popular tools like Amplify, ChatGPT, and Copilot, and learn how to leverage them with practical examples tailored for the workplace.
10:00 a.m., Microsoft Teams: Meeting link for the “How To – SOMBS” session
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To be added to our weekly email dedicated to upcoming biomedical seminars, email Stephen Doster.
To include an event in the calendar and the weekly email, submit event details and graphics to the University Events Calendar. Be sure to use basic-sciences-vanderbilt in the tag section. This tag can be used for any event connected to the School of Medicine Basic Sciences community.
Submissions to the events calendar are manually approved; please submit your event at least two weeks in advance to ensure it is included. If your submission requires updates or edits, email university-calender@vanderbilt.edu.
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Transformational Project Award
Supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.
Proposals due Feb. 13.
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Choosing and managing the trainees and staff in your new lab
Among the most difficult tasks research group leaders in science face is recruiting and successfully managing talented and collegial students, postdocs, and staff. Vice Dean of Basic Sciences Chuck Sanders (Biochemistry) offers his best practices for recruiting and supervising research groups.
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