Erin Calipari, assistant professor of pharmacology and member of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, has been named a dean’s faculty fellow of the VU School of Medicine Basic Sciences.
Started in 2020, the program is designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their career, according to Vanderbilt.edu.
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