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Nov. 16, 2016—The vice president has roughly two months left to continue leading the Cancer Moonshot initiative, an effort to significantly speed the pace of progress in cancer detection and treatment. It’s a personal mission for Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015. There’s no guarantee that Biden’s moonshot — which was announced at...

Sep. 9, 2016—Robots are used in many large hospitals to deliver supplies and assist doctors with delicate surgical procedures. In the future, robotic surgery will become the routine rather than the exception. Some of those tools of tomorrow are being developed today at ��һ��ݶ�’s Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MED). It is one of several labs...

Cochlear implant team shares insights in Ireland

Aug. 26, 2016—An interdisciplinary team at Vanderbilt that developed an innovative method of programming cochlear implants to help people hear better recently presented at Deerfield Residence, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland’s official residence in Dublin. The presentation was part of Creative Minds, a series of discussions started by Ambassador Kevin O’Malley to promote cultural and scientific exchange...

Aug. 15, 2016—EB Jackson and surgeon Reid Thompson remember EB’s husband, Todd Jackson, who died from brain cancer in 2014. Reid, who had treated Todd ten years earlier, recalls his devastation when he learned about the re-occurrence and the futility of further treatments, and EB reflects on Todd’s passing. Todd’s battle against cancer inspired him and EB...

Six profs attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research

Jul. 21, 2016—Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. With the grants, their teams – in collaboration with ��һ��ݶ� Medical Center — are performing groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as percutaneous heart...

Jul. 8, 2016—The Wall Street Journal names Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster’s surgical robot one of six new medical technologies worth watching.

Jul. 8, 2016—A ��һ��ݶ� neurosurgeon and two Vanderbilt engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.