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VU/LU Short Course in Peptide Therapeutics Available

c.fortenberry
02, 2023
News

Through our long-standing partnership with the Max Kade Foundation, a short course titled “Current Developments in Experimental and Computational Engineering of Peptide Therapeutics” is being offered at Vanderbilt University this winter. It will be taught in person from February 27th through March 3rd at the times noted below. Faculty from Leipzig and Vanderbilt Universities will teach the course in lecture and computational laboratory settings. The course is open to faculty, staff, post-docs, and students and Vanderbilt and Leipzig Universities. This is non-credit, and enrollment is completed by emailing Carie Fortenberry at . Enrollment is limited due to lab space, and it is first come, first served. Course Description: Peptides as therapeutics

Max-Kade Foundation Partners with VU-LU Collaboration

c.fortenberry
01, 2014
News

The Vanderbilt-Leipzig Collaboration is pleased to announce its partnership with the Max Kade Foundation to support the exchange of students and faculty between the universities. The Max Kade Foundation takes pride in participating and sponsoring various programs which encourage the exchange of academic ideas among universities and colleges in the United States and in German-speaking countries (www.maxkadefoundation.org). The foundation recently awarded the Vanderbilt-Leipzig research exchange program a grant to cover the travel and support of six undergraduate student exchanges, as well as two faculty exchanges per year. The students will travel to their respective university and join a research project under a senior supervisor. They will be engaged for ten weeks

c.fortenberry
08, 2011
News, Students

Liz Dong of the Jens Meiler lab at Vanderbilt recently received a short term research grant to study at the Univeristy of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. She will spend one month this fall developing a computational method that will allow for the binding pose of a drug within a receptor to be determined. Her method will be guided by experimental data collected on drugs that bind G-protein coupled receptors, working with the lab of Torsten Schöneberg. Congrats, Liz!

2nd Vanderbilt-Leipzig Collaboration Workshop November 10-14, 2010

c.fortenberry
01, 2011
Events

In November, eight professors from Leipzig University traveled to Vanderbilt for the purpose of further developing the collaboration in education and research between Vanderbilt Leipzig Universities. They were accompanied by Dr. Martin Schlegel, the Vice Rector of Research at Leipzig University and Anja Landsmann, the Leipzig coordinator of this collaboration. The workshop began on Wednesday morning with research presentations by six Vanderbilt researchers: Borden Lacy, Walter Chazin, John McLean, Jeff Johnston, Brian Bachmann, and Larry Marnett. In the afternoon the guests from Leipzig University presented their research in a scientific symposium. Opening remarks were given by Dr. Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt Associate Provost for Global Strategy, Dr. Martin Schlegel, and by Dr.

c.fortenberry
12, 2010
News

[by Ross Barajas, Aaron Coonley, Deanna Joe, and Dan Viox] Germany is a country with a rich history and a thriving culture, a leader in scientific discoveries, and a desired destination for many, including four undergraduate students from Vanderbilt University. Through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), we each applied for Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) internships in the winter of 2009. We were awarded scholarships to the University of Leipzig, a university with which Vanderbilt University already has an established collaboration. Over our stay of three months, we were able to develop extensive research skills, learning and working under our mentors—Ph.D. candidates at the university. Ross Barajas worked

VU/LU Short Course in Peptide Therapeutics Available

Max-Kade Foundation Partners with VU-LU Collaboration

Liz Dong Receives DAAD Short Term Research Grant

2nd Vanderbilt-Leipzig Collaboration Workshop November 10-14, 2010

Details from 4 Vanderbilt Students about their DAAD-RISE Internships at Leipzig