David Wasserman Vanderbilt Nashville TN Death – David Wasserman, the Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and the AM Lyle Chair of Biomedical Sciences at Vanderbilt University has died.
He was announced dead this past week. David Wasserman, PhD of Nashville, Tennessee died after complications from surgery. His death is said to be unexpected. He was a true giant of glucose metabolism and a great man, according to his family.
“Sad to learn of the passing of David Wasserman. A true giant of glucose metabolism I was fortunate enough to meet while training at VanderbiltU and MouseCentral for mouse insulin clamp… Rest in peace, you were a legend.” Thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family during this difficult time.
David Wasserman Biography
David Wasserman, PhD, served as the Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and the AM Lyle Chair of Biomedical Sciences at Vanderbilt University.
Since 2001, he has been the Director of the NIDDK Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (MMPC). Dr. Wasserman and his team research to define the site-specific regulation of metabolic control systems in health, exercise, and insulin resistance.
Their work combines transgenesis, pharmacology, and unique surgical techniques with isotopic methods for tracing metabolic pathways to study functional metabolic control in animal models.
Recently, the Wasserman laboratory has focused on the role of the extracellular environment in insulin action. They have demonstrated that integrin receptor-linked binding partners couple extracellular matrix remodeling in obesity to insulin resistance.
Dr. Wasserman has received several prestigious awards, including the Bowditch Award, the Solomon Berson Award from the American Physiological Society, an NIH MERIT Award, the C.R. Park Award for Excellence in Research, and the John H. Exton Award for Research Leading to Innovative Biological Concepts.
About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1873 and named after Cornelius Vanderbilt, who endowed the school with $1 million to help heal post-Civil War sectional wounds.
A founding member of the Southeastern Conference and its only private school since 1966, Vanderbilt comprises ten schools and enrols nearly 13,800 students from the U.S. and 70 countries.
Classified as an R1: Doctoral University with very high research activity, it hosts several research centers including the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Dyer Observatory. Vanderbilt University Medical Center separated from the university in 2016. The university’s facilities, except for the off-campus observatory, are on its 330-acre campus near downtown Nashville.
Vanderbilt’s undergraduate admissions are highly selective, with a 5.1% acceptance rate for the class of 2028. Its alumni and faculty include notable figures such as 54 members of the U.S. Congress, 18 U.S. Ambassadors, 13 governors, 8 Nobel laureates, 2 U.S. Vice Presidents, and 2 U.S. Supreme Court Justices. The university also boasts 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 27 Rhodes Scholars, 2 Academy Award winners, 1 Grammy Award winner, 6 MacArthur Fellows, 4 foreign heads of state, and 5 Olympic medallists among its more than 145,000 alumni worldwide.