Educator: Director of AI Initiatives, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Researcher: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Recently at: CSH Replication, AAMC GREAT. Email: [email protected]
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Resource Generation: Reasoning LLM usage to enhance scholarship in biomedical science.
Teaching/Professional development: Learning opportunities for biomedical scientists (graduate students, post-docs, staff, faculty).
Pedagogy: Creation of a ‘pedagogical trifecta’ that allows any biomedical education program to become LLM-ready on day 1: curricular realignment; live assessments; and elevated expectations.
Topics: Biochemical mechanisms of DNA replication and repair to better understand tumor suppression, chemotherapy, and environmental toxicology.
Corresponding Author Publications: bioRxiv 2025; Nucleic Acids Res 2025 (In Press); Nat Protoc 2024; Cell Rep 2023; Nat Struct Mol Biol 2023; EMBO J 2022; Cell Rep 2019; ****click here for Pubmed Listing
Funding: $596,000 annual direct costs; R35 GM128696 (NIGMS); R01 ES034847 (NIEHS)
Lab: lab.vanderbilt.edu/dewar-lab/
Landing page for handouts and more: https://jamesmdewar.notion.site/great2025