By Cameron I. Cohen Cellulases are enzymes responsible for the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds in cellulose, a polysaccharide which serves as the main structural material in plant cell walls. The effic...

Since the inception of the Ancora Innovations partnership in 2018, Vanderbilt and Deerfield Management have enjoyed a robust collaboration. Deerfield’s commitment includes significant support for adva...

Congratulations to our School of Medicine Basic Sciences faculty members who were promoted or received new appointments between July and September 2025. These individuals significantly enrich our p…

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Since the inception of the Ancora Innovations partnership in 2018, Vanderbilt and Deerfield Management have enjoyed a robust collaboration. Deerfield’s commitment includes significant support for adva...

A new image analysis tool called TrueSpot has the capacity to overhaul the quantity and quality of usable data that can be obtained from fluorescence microscopy, which is used across an enormous ra…

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology William Tansey and Professor of Biochemistry Stephen Fesik are rewriting the playbook for defeating cancer. After ten years of research, the two School o…

Vanderbilt’s Dr. Benjamin P. Brown is improving the way the field of drug discovery creates machine learning algorithms to predict a protein’s interactions with a small molecule. These improvements…

In a heartwarming tribute to a remarkable career, more than 70 of his former graduate students and postdoctoral scholars recently traveled from across the globe for a three-day festivity on Oct. 3–…

Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders' yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring Maud Menten, co-creator of the Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics equation.

In a heartwarming tribute to a remarkable career, more than 70 of his former graduate students and postdoctoral scholars recently traveled from across the globe for a three-day festivity on Oct. 3–5 t...

Latest Publications BTK autoinhibition analyzed by high-throughput swaps of SH2 domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Timothy Eisen*, Chien-Lun Hung, John Kuriyan*. Advanced Dimensionality Reduction for Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Human Eye Tissue through Low-Rank Modeling with Sparse and Dense Residuals. Analytical Chemistry.Roger Moens* (Delft University of Technology), David Anderson, Richard Caprioli, Christine Curcio, […]