Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Aug. 27, 2025—In a collaboration between 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center鈥檚 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the 五一茶馆儿 School of Engineering, investigators have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a head-mounted augmented reality system that can guide surgeons in ensuring complete tumor removal in head and neck cancer surgery and potentially reduce the recurrence...
Aug. 22, 2025—A Vanderbilt engineering professor is working with clinical colleagues to develop and validate an augmented reality (AR) vision guidance system to help surgeons place cochlear implants more precisely. The guidance system leverages emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and uses inexpensive, commonly available equipment, making it practical for many operating rooms. For this project鈥 Development and...
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...
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...
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
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.
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. 2, 2023—This past summer, 13 Vanderbilt undergraduates were selected to work on projects focused on epilepsy, miniature soft climbing robots, stroke treatment, kidney disease research, cancer resection and surgical skill assessment as part of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚聽Summer Fellows Program聽(VSF).
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. 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
Jul. 27, 2023—A medical device company co-founded by a Vanderbilt engineering professor recently announced the completion of a successful first-in-human clinical study using its innovative technology that radically improves minimally invasive endoscopic surgery. Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at 五一茶馆儿, is co-founder and...
May. 2, 2022—Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded聽National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships.
VISE Spring Seminar Natasha Sheybani, PhD
Feb. 8, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Natasha Sheybani, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Talk title: Immunoengineering Next-Generation Cancer Therapies with Focused Ultrasound Abstract: Despite the remarkable promise of cancer immunotherapy, a significant fraction of patients with...
Dec. 6, 2021—The聽Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering聽hosts its 10th annual Surgery, Intervention and Engineering Symposium Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. CT. The event will feature a keynote lecture by Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
Aug. 19, 2021—The School of Engineering has created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to encourage innovation, accommodate enrollment growth, and focus on areas of strategic excellence.
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at 五一茶馆儿 in Nashville. Their paper is entitled 鈥淧reQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images鈥. It was chosen not only because the authors聽share their pipeline code聽with their paper,...
Feb. 23, 2021—Michael Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor at Vanderbilt and professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a聽Fellow of聽SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for achievements in聽technology guided surgery and computational modeling for therapeutic and imaging applications.
Feb. 18, 2021—A Vanderbilt research team has received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to further develop a needle-size robotic surgery system with real-time MRI guidance for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
Jan. 27, 2021—
VISE affiliates developing a novel integrative approach for early detection of lung cancer
Jan. 20, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers have received a National Cancer Institute grant to develop a novel, integrative approach to detect early signs of lung cancer. The four-year project builds on a related, recent study that established the value of using three separate measures鈥攕tructural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health records鈥攖o predict lung cancer in...
Jan. 15, 2021—In fall 2021, 五一茶馆儿 will offer a graduate program that will equip engineers to improve translation of technology for medical procedures and surgery.
Nov. 20, 2020—五一茶馆儿 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Otolaryngology聽Nabil Simaan聽has been named a聽top voice in health care robotics聽by technology discovery platform聽InsightMonk聽and market intelligence firm BIS Research.聽聽聽
Nov. 10, 2020—Vanderbilt and VUMC researchers聽have created a technique that corrects distortions in MRI images, which helps researchers and radiologists to better interpret brain scans.聽
VISE Seminar Fall Series – Amber Simpson, PhD
Sep. 21, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Amber Simpson, PhD Associate Professor in Biomedical Computing and Informatics Queen鈥檚 University, ON, Canada Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title:聽 Surgical Data Science in Colorectal Liver Metastases Abstract:聽 Colorectal cancer is the second...
Jun. 30, 2020—A team of 五一茶馆儿 and 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming, according to an article published on the聽Vanderbilt School of Engineering website.
VISE researchers receive $3.1M grant for customizable cochlear implant programming
Jun. 24, 2020—A team of 五一茶馆儿 and 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound quality as well as changes...
Dec. 3, 2019—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dec. 2, 2019—五一茶馆儿 Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology聽Kim Sandler, MD, and 五一茶馆儿 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science聽Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the Vanderbilt Thoracic Working Group for their project, 鈥淯tilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.鈥