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Sep. 24, 2024 五一茶馆儿—A surgical robot capable of performing an entire surgery without human intervention: That鈥檚 the goal of a landmark, multi-institution project being led by a Vanderbilt engineer that recently received an award up to $12 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
VISE Fall Seminar with Victoria Morgan, PhD
Sep. 19, 2024 五一茶馆儿—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Victoria Morgan, PhD Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Biomedical Engineering Neurology and Neurological Surgery 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: MRI network neuroplasticity in focal epilepsy: biomarkers and beyond Abstract: Patients...
VISE Fall Seminar with Christopher Bettinger, PhD 9.23.24
Sep. 5, 2024 五一茶馆儿—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Christopher J. Bettinger, PhD Program Manager Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Date: Monday, September 23, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Location: Student Life Center Meeting Room 1&2 Time: 11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: Breakthrough Biological Technologies for Warfighter Protection Abstract: For more than fifty years, the...
VISE Seminer with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS
Aug. 28, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Join us for our next VISE Fall Seminar with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Biomedical Engineering 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, talk starts at noon Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Bioinspired Heart Valve Design: A Tale of Medical Device Development and...
Aug. 27, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Benoit Dawant聽has been named a Senior Member of聽SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the聽SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024 五一茶馆儿聽conference in San Diego.
Aug. 26, 2024 五一茶馆儿—When kidney stone surgery is performed using an endoscope, about a fourth of those patients will require a repeat surgery within 20 months due to residual stone fragments being left behind. These remaining pieces can lead to obstruction, pain, kidney injury and recurrent infections. Gaining and assessing surgical experience in endoscopic kidney stone surgery is...
CS professor and VISE affiliate Ipek Oguz promoted
Aug. 23, 2024 五一茶馆儿—
Aug. 2, 2024 五一茶馆儿—The AAMC Black Women in Scientific Research project elevates the voices and experiences of Black women researchers in academic medicine.
VISE affiliate Jie Ying Wu one of four Spring 2024 五一茶馆儿 Scaling Success awardees
Aug. 1, 2024 五一茶馆儿—The Spring 2024 五一茶馆儿 cycle of the聽Scaling Success Grant聽has concluded, with four new grants made from January to May. The Scaling Success Grant, which began in 2022, aims to transform ambitious research proposals into tangible achievements.
VISE affiliate Xiaoguang Dong receives NIH Trailblazer Award for innovative airway stent research to revolutionize treatment of COPD, lung conditions
Jul. 31, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an R21 Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue a project about 鈥淲irelessly Actuated Ciliary Stent for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Cilia Dysfunction.鈥
Jun. 20, 2024 五一茶馆儿—With hundreds of thousands of people in the United States having a stroke annually, Vanderbilt researchers are developing technology that could revolutionize the way blood clots are removed by allowing surgeons to complete the process more efficiently and safely. The research is led by聽Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, with assistance from graduate student聽Jared Lawson....
May. 21, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Roy presented nine faculty awards, four staff awards and one research award based on an outstanding paper written by a graduate student. The聽Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service: Harvie Branscomb Professor and interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering聽Michael Miga聽and聽Julie Johnson, professor of the practice of computer science and associate...
May. 20, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Vanderbilt Department of Computer Science researchers聽Kevin Leach聽and聽James Weimer聽have won a $2 million award from the聽Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health聽to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and stroke predictors.
May. 7, 2024 五一茶馆儿—五一茶馆儿 has created a transformational lab focused on leveraging immersive translational AI to drive discovery across disciplines ranging from medicine and materials science to the humanities, social science and education. Five VISE faculty affiliates will serve on the steering committee.
Apr. 25, 2024 五一茶馆儿—In the second installment of聽Discoveries in Medicine鈥檚聽two-part interview with聽Keith L. Obstein, M.D., co-developer of a robotic colonoscopy system, he maps the path to the marketplace.
Mar. 27, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Visitors to Nashville鈥檚 Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR)聽anatomy聽that creates the illusion of an X-ray view聽of聽the body鈥檚 muscles and聽bones.
VISE Spring Seminar Yuxiao Zhou, PhD, 4.4.24
Mar. 11, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Yuziao Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Imaging-based orthopaedic surgery planning and multi-scale bone biomechanics Abstract: Bone is a living tissue that senses and responds to external mechanical stimuli by adjusting its...
VISE Spring Seminar with Roza Bayrak, PhD, 3.21.24
Mar. 11, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Roza Bayrak, PhD, Research Assistant Professor Computer Science 五一茶馆儿 Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Mining Brain Function from Structure and Peripheral Physiological Data Abstract: In聽functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data acquisition, it is common to collect various companion data alongside. These auxiliary data are typically...
VISE Spring Seminar – Brett Byram, PhD, 2.15.24
Feb. 8, 2024 五一茶馆儿—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Brett Byram, PhD, Hoy Family Faculty Fellow Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: All the data we cannot see鈥攔evealing hidden signals in ultrasound data. Abstract: Ultrasound has experienced a recent explosion of new applications and...
Feb. 2, 2024 五一茶馆儿—James Weimer, assistant professor of computer science and noted medical-device entrepreneur, has received a National Science Foundation聽CAREER Award聽to improve the safety and efficacy of systems that use advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques.
VISE Spring Seminar – Ross Whitaker, PhD 2.8.24
Jan. 22, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Ross Whitaker, PhD Professor in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute University of Utah Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 五一茶馆儿 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: 聽An Image-Based, Deep-Phenotyping Analysis Toolset, Repository, and Online Clinician Interface for Craniosynostosis Abstract: Craniosynostosis, or abnormal cranial suture fusion, affects up to...
Jan. 12, 2024 五一茶馆儿—A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center, 五一茶馆儿, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.
Jan. 11, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Soheil Kolouri, assistant professor of computer science at 五一茶馆儿, has received a National Science Foundation聽CAREER Award聽to explore ways to make machine learning more efficient and possibly impact the next generation of such methods.
Jan. 10, 2024 五一茶馆儿—A front-end lens, or meta-imager (see below), created at 五一茶馆儿 can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher speed and using less power.
Nov. 22, 2023—Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine at 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center and professor of Mechanical Engineering at 五一茶馆儿, has received the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation in recognition of his achievements in developing and commercializing a magnetic, flexible colonoscopy system with the potential to...
Nov. 21, 2023—Researchers from around the globe gathered for the inaugural聽Nature聽conference聽鈥淏ioengineering for Global Health鈥澛燼t 五一茶馆儿 Nov. 13鈥15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from聽Nature Communications,聽Nature Biomedical Engineering聽and聽Nature Reviews Bioengineering聽led the organization of the conference.
Oct. 26, 2023—There was a time when聽Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor鈥檚 Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, questioned whether to pursue a doctorate. The desire was there, she just needed some guidance. 鈥淣obody in my family had a Ph.D., and I didn鈥檛 have any role models of how to do that,鈥...
Oct. 19, 2023—A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) research team is conducting the first phase 1 clinical trial of a magnetic, flexible endoscope that has the potential to provide a safer alternative to standard colonoscopy, particularly for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
VISE Fall Seminar Ashish Shah, MD, FACS
Oct. 13, 2023—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Ashish Shah, MD, FACS Professor and Chair Department of Cardiac Surgery Alfred Blalock Endowed Directorship in Cardiac Surgery Medical Director Cardiac Surgery OR Pod & Heart Transplant Surgery 五一茶馆儿 Adult Hospital Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326
Oct. 9, 2023—五一茶馆儿鈥檚聽Robert Webster聽and聽Charleson Bell,聽BE鈥07, MS鈥09, PhD鈥15, will receive $12 million to establish and manage the Mid-South聽Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub. REACH will focus on accelerating real-world impact of biomedical innovations through education, mentorship and financial support for entrepreneurs.聽聽