Trans-Institutional Programs

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

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Led by an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt faculty with expertise in language, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, this project will develop an adaptive eBook that represents a groundbreaking approach to foster early language. The ability to comprehend complex text is fundamental… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The VUSAT initiative brings together the advanced resources of Engineering, Anthropology, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Astronomy to design and develop a Space-based platform to study the evolving ecology on earth. The overarching goal is to develop valuable knowledge in climate… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The initiative aims to develop a tool within the EPIC health platform to capture obesity data, catalyze trans-disciplinary conversations with area experts and improve behavioral interventions for dissemination. Two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese and… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) In living organisms, several single cells interact in non-intuitive ways to support complex functions such as cognition, cardiovascular integrity and immunity. Rare single cells often maintain tissue health or, conversely, drive disease. A current challenge is to understand how large ensembles… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative (VMI) will provide Vanderbilt the opportunity to become the first university that unifies a major precision medicine initiative with personalized microbiome studies. The VMI will blend Vanderbilt’s clinical, basic, translational and educational endeavors into a community of… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Vanderbilt’s researchers have provided national and international leadership in environmental sustainability and development/assessment of infrastructure materials.  The Materials Durability and Environmental Research Facilities Hub will provide core facilities in support of research on the performance and durability of natural… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab will connect interdisciplinary faculty and students to broaden Vanderbilt’s international reputation on scholarship surrounding the correlates, causes, and consequences of LGBT-related public policies. Vanderbilt is currently one of a handful of top universities worldwide with multiple… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project will develop supportive infrastructure and educational programs that engage an interdisciplinary team of investigators comprised of faculty and students from across campus to lay the groundwork for a consortium focused on HPV-associated cancers. Faculty and students will conduct… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (VRA) Data science is closely related to “big data”, which focuses on particularly large and complex datasets, but data science is more focused on the process of learning from, and making decisions based on, the data rather than the size of the… Read More