Grants and Publications
Our team has received 10 new R01/U01 grants, a new P01 center grant, a new K12 training program and have published 97 manuscripts in journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Circulation, and Nature Medicine.
Building important infrastructure
The 16 million person Veterans Affairs Cohort (VACo) links all elements of the entire VHA corporate data warehouse (e.g., clinical notes, laboratory results, radiology, pathology, pharmacy) with Medicare, Medicaid, VA fee for service, and National Death Index data. Importantly this cohort includes millions of participants who are people of color and half a million who are women.
Establishing new collaborations with National laboratories and Government agencies
We now have active partnerships with Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Department of Defense, and the Million Veteran Program
Building Natural Language Processing Platforms
We have built natural language processing tools to extract measures of cardiac structure and function and peripheral artery disease measures across the entire VHA electronic health record and validated these tools in the Vanderbilt electronic health record.
Collaborating on virtual tissue biorepositories and image libraries
We have collaborated on pilot projects that examine existing cancer pathology specimens from Veteran Health Administration pathology labs for NCI funded research. We are conducting pilot projects that seek to use automated technology to read existing image studies within radiology PACS.
Founding of new NHLBI K12 Training program
The Vanderbilt Scholars in HIV and Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Research (V-SCHoLARs), designed to train the next generation of investigators with expertise in HIV and heart, lung, blood, and sleep expertise.
Developing women and minority investigators
Three of our five V-SCHoLARS are women and two of our five scholars are people of color. Two scholars have successfully transitioned off the K12 and have received NIH career development awards, Clinical Scientist Development Award from Doris Duke and a prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists.
Supporting investigators with unfunded projects
Presently supporting four R01 submissions for investigators within Medicine/Cardiology, Surgery, and evaluating for possible SPORE grant, VICC.