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Hundreds gather to protest cuts to medical research funding, crackdowns on DEI

Catherine Sweeney

March 7, 2025

Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, hundreds of protesters filled the Tennessee State Capitol steps in downtown Nashville.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, Science, WPLN News Tagged With: HHS, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Nashville residents underrepresented in medical research are offering up DNA samples despite their privacy concerns

Blake Farmer

June 2, 2022

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The “All of Us” research program is focused on recruiting people of color, primarily, to build a diverse, million-patient databank, which Vanderbilt Medical Center will help manage.

Filed Under: Health Care, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: medical research, Nashville Noticias, NIH, Plaza Mariachi

VU Researchers Calling Lawmakers on Support of Science

Blake Farmer

November 19, 2012

Researchers at Vanderbilt are taking time away from their labs to lobby congress, albeit informally. PhD candidates are worried the impending fiscal cliff will leave them without money to keep working.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: fiscal cliff, NIH, Vanderbilt

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