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Vanderbilt University Medical Center names executive vice president for research
Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, has been named executive vice president for research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Pietenpol will continue to serve as director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a position she has held since 2007.
Jennifer Pietenpol
“We are fortunate to have an individual with such commitment, talent and institutional experience to lead basic research,” Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said in a press release. “As cancer center director for many years, Jennifer is world renowned and has been successfully leading an integral part of the medical center. I look forward to her contributions in this new role.”
Pietenpol will take on some of the responsibilities held by Lawrence “Larry” Marnett, PhD, associate vice chancellor for research and senior associate dean for biomedical sciences. Marnett will transition to the newly created position of dean of basic sciences in the school of medicine.
“Critical to this new role is the research enterprise growing strategically in a way that seamlessly integrates and synergizes with the rest of Vanderbilt,” Pietenpol said in the release. “Being able to work closely with Dr. Marnett, for whom I have the highest respect, is essential for sustaining the basic sciences infrastructure, assuring that investments continue to be made and that discoveries are advanced at an accelerated rate.”