It’s a quandary people often ponder: Is it better to know or not about a predisposition to disease? Cindy Betz decided to confront her unknown health risks. The 63-year-old Bardstown, Kentucky, woman gave a blood sample for a genetic screening study at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). The decision may have saved her life. The […]

Innovations

Remarkable. That’s how Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, MD, described responses to an ongoing clinical trial for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who had run out of treatment options.  Dholaria, associate professor of Medicine, presented interim results from the Phase 1 trial for a new “off-the-shelf” chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CAR-T) therapy at the 21st International […]