Trans-Institutional Programs

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This project will reinvest in the Center for Structural Biology (CSB) by acquiring a new microscope that will enable the laboratory to remain on the cutting-edge of research. The Titan Krios will replace an aging microscope that is insufficient to support… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project will study the unique capabilities of autistic adults, as well as how to match these capabilities to 21st-century workforce needs and how to develop managers who can leverage the “autism advantage” to fuel innovation in their organizations. This initiative… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) One of Vanderbilt’s flagship trans-institutional centers, the Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI) is home to the Neuroscience Training Program, the largest of Vanderbilt’s biomedical programs, with training faculty spread across 22 departments and five schools within the university and Medical Center. This… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This project seeks to create a collaborative environment across three schools for biophotonics innovation and biomedical discovery within the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center. Students, postdocs and faculty from engineering, physical sciences and biomedical sciences will work together to innovate – by building… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Wisdom Working Group (WWG) is rooted in the idea that older adults are lifelong innovators and experiential researchers whose insights can prove invaluable to Vanderbilt’s goal of solving “problems of importance to society” through discovery and learning.The goal here is… Read More

  Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, transinstitutional program designed to facilitate interaction between clinicians, engineers and scientists. ViSE has grown from a grass roots effort to a major force on the Vanderbilt campus. This reinvestment… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The health issues in the U.S. South often reflect, amplify, and shape the political and economic tensions in the U.S. writ large. Southern states like Tennessee are home to major American health-insurance corporations, yet many hospitals face financial challenges linked to falling reimbursements,… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Since its inception, biomedical ethics has used a model of ethics in which autonomous individuals make high stakes medical decisions. Often described as “principlism,” this model of human moral agency is also the customary focus of bioethics as a discipline and the general… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Health is closely linked with social, political and economic conditions.Yet, scholars and health care professionals often focus on quantity of interventions rather than the holistic quality of impact. International organizations (e.g. USAID) have recognized the critical impact of multidimensional determinants on… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Effectively managing and analyzing the flood of data being generated in all areas of education and research is one of the major challenges for universities in the 21st century.The Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) seeks to develop a… Read More