Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have made a fundamental discovery about how the heart compensates for genetic variations that otherwise could trigger abnormal and potentially fatal heart rhythms. Their findings, reported recently in the journal Circulation, add significantly to understanding what causes abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, and suggest that certain medications can induce them in susceptible people by overcoming the heart’s compensatory mechanism.

Each spring the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) partners with the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association (VPA) to recognize postdocs who demonstrate excellence in research, service, mentorship, and a commitment to the postdoc community, as well as their mentors who demonstrate a willingness to share expertise and advice, service to the community at large, along with other mentoring activities. Nominations close on Friday, March 11, 2022. Nominations are open for:

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored faculty from across the university at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

Join DBMI alumni for our upcoming Research Colloquium as they discuss career pathways in industry. The event will take place on Thursday, March 3, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm CT.   Title: "Alumni Panel Discussion on Career Pathways in Industry" Speaker(s):  Michael Greer, PhD Bioinformatics Scientist, QIAGEN Matthew Lenert, PhD Lead Data Architect, Careignition, Inc. Linda Zhang, PhD Data Scientist, XSOLIS

  REGISTER HERE. If you have questions, contact Liann Cates at liann.cates@vumc.org. 

Adam Wright, PhD, Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, will be presenting a talk on "Clinical Informatics and Personalized Medicine" for the Genomic and Personalize Medicine Seminar. The talk will take place on Tuesday, March 1 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm CT. 

The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hiring! We have many open staff positions ranging from staff scientist to application developers and more! Specifically, we are hiring the following: 

The MS in Applied Clinical Informatics (MSACI) program offers rigorous and engaging training that will equip you to apply informatics principles to the challenges facing your workplace. Are you a working clinician or health care professional interested in gaining experience in clinical informatics? Apply today! Early applications for the MSACI program are due February 15. See here for more info. Apply now!

The Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP) is designed to provide students from diverse backgrounds with a high quality Biomedical Informatics research experience; thereby encouraging students to consider pursuing PhDs and research careers in the field. This paid, 10-week summer internship opportunity is open to high school, community college, undergraduate, medical, and graduate students.

An important paper published by Xingyi Guo, PhD, associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, colleagues in Vanderbilt's Department of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, shows distinct genomic landscapes in early-onset and late-onset.  The study was published in JCO Precision Oncology. Read the full study here.