Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

BY: BILL SNYDER AND MELISSA MARINO William Tansey, Ph.D., has been named interim chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Tansey succeeds Susan Wente, Ph.D., who has taken on greater administrative responsibilities as associate vice chancellor for Research and senior associate dean for Biomedical Sciences. In her new [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART The rich sounds of violins and other stringed instruments are now resonating through the halls of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. After months of planning, several members of the Nashville Symphony are volunteering their time to bring orchestral music to cancer patients and their families. “The Symphony approached Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center because our [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART The Society for Biomolecular Sciences has selected Stephen Fesik, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, as the winner of the SBS 2010 Technology Innovation Award. The award is given for the development of an outstanding novel technology that is predicted to have a significant impact on the field of biomolecular sciences. Fesik [...]

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness of this type of cancer and ways to prevent it or catch it early. The use of Pap smears, improvements in managing pre-cancerous abnormalities, and the introduction of a vaccine against the cause of cervical cancer, infection with the human papilloma virus, make cervical cancer [...]