Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center aimed at developing potential new treatments for major depressive disorder, general anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder got a big boost recently from The William K. Warren Foundation, which announced it would increase its support of the research by $2.25 million over the next two years. That is in addition to a three-year, $5 million commitment made last year as part of a research collaboration agreement signed by the two non-profit institutions.

Marco Davila, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named a recipient of the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award. The grant will provide $450,000 over three years to help fund his research on therapies for several types of blood disorders, including various forms of leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.