The Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI) was founded in 1999 as a transinstitutional entity to oversee and facilitate the extensive neuroscience-related endeavors carried out at Vanderbilt University. As such, the primary missions of the VBI are to promote research, education and training in the brain-related disciplines at Vanderbilt, with the stated goal of fostering excellence in each of these arenas. Read more...

Our Students in the Spotlight


Jacqueline Clauss
of the Blackford lab received the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. Congratulations Jacci!



Eva Sawyer of the Catania lab received the Theodore Roosevelt Award from the American Museum of American History.
Congratulations Eva!