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  • Engineering Immunity

    Engineering Immunity

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) From cancer to diabetes to chronic infections, our immune system plays an important role in nearly every disease. Accordingly, harnessing the power and exquisite specificity of the immune system has enormous – and still largely untapped – potential to improve human health and wellbeing. Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Understanding Digital Dominance in Teaching and Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Understanding Digital Dominance in Teaching and Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Digital tools are constantly changing the way we teach and learn, yet our understanding of these tools is lagging behind. Some students and teachers continue to employ traditional learning tools such as printed text and pen whereas others enlist digital tools such as MOOCs,… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Towards a Trans-disciplinary Program on Data Science Policy

    Towards a Trans-disciplinary Program on Data Science Policy

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Society is increasingly entranced by and concerned about big data and data science. Big data is often described as massive growth in the “four V’s” of data: variety, velocity, veracity and volume. Yet critical policy issues must be addressed in order to understand the… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Advancing the Development of Brain-Based Measures of Treatment Outcomes in Clinical Trials across the Lifespan

    Advancing the Development of Brain-Based Measures of Treatment Outcomes in Clinical Trials across the Lifespan

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This project aims to advance the development of functional, cost-effective and easy-to-administer brain-based measures of treatment outcomes for use in human clinical trials across the lifespan. Success in translating basic science discoveries to effective treatments or interventions in diverse patient groups depends, in part,… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Optimizing Health and Well-Being in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Optimizing Health and Well-Being in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The steep rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has focused growing attention on this group of individuals at local, state and federal levels, as well as in policy, legislative and funding initiatives. Despite this concern there remains a dearth of services,… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Africa at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects

    Africa at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project seeks to build – for the first time at Vanderbilt – an interdisciplinary community of Africanists to explore the topic “Africa at a Crossroads.” Investigators will explore the widespread notion that contemporary socio-economic, cultural and political indicators demonstrate… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2019

  • Vanderbilt Initiative for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Vanderbilt Initiative for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project aims to challenge the existing paradigm and expand the understanding of the environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance through research and teaching activities. This program will place Vanderbilt at the forefront of efforts to disseminate awareness, educate and identify effective… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018

  • VCL Intersectional Study of Black Women and Girls in Society

    VCL Intersectional Study of Black Women and Girls in Society

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This transdisciplinary hub of research, discovery and teaching activities will center on elevating and understanding structural barriers and forms of resilience that black women and girls experience across various social contexts in society, and how intersectional interventions might be created to… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018

  • A Synchrotron-like X-ray Source for Structural Biology at Vanderbilt

    A Synchrotron-like X-ray Source for Structural Biology at Vanderbilt

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Despite the development of new structural techniques such as Cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography remains the dominant method used in all structural biology. However, the rate of X-ray discovery is limited by long queues and maintenance downtime of synchrotron radiation sources, which are… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018

  • The Initiative for Personalized Microbial Discovery and Innovation

    The Initiative for Personalized Microbial Discovery and Innovation

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (ViA) From drug-resistant pathogens to therapeutic probiotics, microorganisms (‘microbes’) dramatically impact all human life, and a deeper understanding of human-microbe relationships will generate new therapies to improve health and treat infections. However, just as every human individual is profoundly unique, so too… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018