Welcome to V-POLARIS
News
September 2023
• META HIV CVD Randomized Control Trial opens to enrollment!
August 2023
• Team applies for R01 Grant with collaborators at Brown
June 2023
• Team hosts Alcohol Research Involving People with HIV satellite meeting in Bellevue, Washington as a part of the Research Society on Alcoholism's annual meeting"
April 2023
• Publication of Duncan et al. "Geographic Variation in Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation"
March 2023
• Registration opens for satellite meeting at the Research Society on Alcoholism's annual meeting titled " Alcohol Research Involving People with HIV," hosted by V-POLARIS
February 2023
• Grace Wallace, Project Manager, successfully held a two-day startup meeting for our META HIV CVD Randomized Control Trial with Vanderbilt's Comprehensive Care Clinic
January 2023
• We are growing and changing! Our group is now called V-POLARIS (previously V-CREATE)
Our Mission
To leverage large population cohorts involving millions of participants with granular mechanistic studies to design and conduct clinical trials to improve human health locally and globally and to train the next generation of population scientists/clinical trialists.
Our Work
Our center is prolific in receiving grants, publishing articles, making presentations, and winning awards. Want to read an overview of our work?
K-12 Training Program
The Vanderbilt Scholars in HIV and Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Research (V-SCHOLARS)