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RASR Lab team at Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day

Apr. 17, 2024—Dr. Khiry Patterson presents ‘Plasma Proteins Associated with Alzheimer’s disease in the Religious Orders Study and Memory Aging Project’ poster at Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Research Day on April 10th. Updates will be posted here.

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RASR Lab Member talks AD Research on Channel 5 News

Feb. 23, 2024—PhD student Angel Bodrick recently spoke with News Channel 5 Nashville about her Alzheimer’s Disease Research. She discussed statistics of Black Americans touched by the disease, her motivation for research, and Alzheimer’s events during Black History Month. You can read the full article and watch her interview here.

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Internship Opportunity at Waters

Feb. 21, 2024—There is a Field Service Engineer Internship opening exclusively for VU students. Sophomores, juniors and seniors are able to apply. To read more and apply for the position visit this link or scan the QR code. 

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5th Annual Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day

Feb. 15, 2024—This campus-wide academic event will showcase Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research from multiple clinical and basic science departments across campus, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, and Meharry Medical College. This year’s theme will focus on big data in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This day-long event will also feature invited faculty lectures,...

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About 1,000 Mercy Iowa City workers become University of Iowa Health Care employees under ownership transition this week

Jan. 31, 2024—Community member and RASR Lab Project Manager Jennifer Montgomery becomes emotional Wednesday as she talks with one of the Sisters of Mercy about what Mercy Hospital has meant to her. A ceremony at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City honored the legacy of Mercy Hospital, which operated for 150 years and will now transition to...

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Dr. Robinson is Distinguished Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at NCSU

Jan. 17, 2024—NCSU hosts the endowed lectureship named after former student, colleague and friend, Michael S. Bereman, who passed from ALS. Dr. Robinson gives the Analytical Chemistry lecture.

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17th Annual Vanderbilt Postdoc Symposium

Nov. 22, 2023—Dr. Khiry Patterson presented a poster titled Intralaboratory Evaluation of a Quality Control Workflow across Identical LCMS/MS Systems at the 17th Annual Vanderbilt Postdoc Symposium on November 17th.

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