Biomedical Engineering
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Celebrate 45 years of biomedical engineering at Oct. 21 birthday bash
One of the first such programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of Engineering. Read MoreOct 15, 2013
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Synthetic biology pioneer to deliver Hall Engineering Lecture Oct. 23
James J. Collins will present his groundbreaking work in synthetic biology as guest speaker in the 2013-14 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
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NSF grant helps develop next generation of STEM instructors
A national experiment to develop a new generation of college science and engineering faculty, one equipped to excel in the classroom as well as the lab, is about to shift into high gear. The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, of which Vanderbilt University is a member, has received a three-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. CIRTL is partnering with Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching to offer The Blended and Online Learning Design Fellows program. Read MoreOct 2, 2013
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Free online course on data management for clinical research now underway
Vanderbilt University's latest offering on the online learning platform Coursera, "Data Management for Clinical Research," went live this week. More than 33,000 number of students have registered for the massive open online course or MOOC. Read MoreSep 18, 2013
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Vanderbilt Medicine: Robotics revolution
In the foreseeable future, robots will be sticking steerable needles in your brain to remove blood clots; capsule robots will be crawling up your colon as a painless replacement for the colonoscopy; and ultra-miniaturized snake robots will remove tumors from your bladder and other body cavities. Read MoreSep 11, 2013
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Eight engineering students receive NSF graduate fellowships
Meghan Bowler, Erica Curtis, Melanie Gault, Samantha Saratt and Chelsea Stowell, biomedical engineering; Kirsten Heikkinen and Richard Hendrick, mechanical engineering; and Thushara Gunda, civil and environmental engineering, have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Read MoreSep 4, 2013
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Vanderbilt startup BioNanovations gets accelerated
Vanderbilt graduate student Charleson Bell, who is the president of the high tech startup BioNanovations, is participating in a 12-week accelerator program in Silicon Valley specifically designed to encourage underrepresented tech entrepeneurs. Read MoreAug 30, 2013
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Seven engineering students receive NSF graduate fellowships
Seven current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Read MoreAug 27, 2013
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Robot uses steerable needles to treat brain clots
Surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain is a perfect job for a robot. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreAug 8, 2013
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Predicting cancer’s response to therapy
Researchers are developing imaging methods to predict patient outcome early in the course of chemotherapy for breast cancer – to allow clinicians to adjust therapy for patients who are not responding. Read MoreJun 24, 2013
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Genetics may have played a role in student’s cancer research grant award
In July, Alex Walsh will step up to a podium in Saarbrucken, Germany and deliver a talk on optical metabolic imaging at an international workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques. It’s her prize for winning this year’s JenLab Young Investigator Award – one of several awards recently bestowed… Read MoreJun 21, 2013
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Aladine Elsamadicy wants to bridge cultural divides
Aladine Elsamadicy (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Aladine Elsamadicy says he didn’t feel singled out for his Egyptian heritage or Muslim faith while growing up in Alabama—not until Sept. 11, 2001, that is. He was in the fifth grade at the time. Elsamadicy and his siblings were suddenly more conspicuous at their… Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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John Wikswo at TEDx Nashville: The Homunculi and I
John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor of biomedical engineering and A. B. Learned Professor of Living Physics, presented "Homunculi and I: Lessons from building organs on chips" at TedX Nashville April 6, 2013. Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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Josh Shannon wants to pioneer biomedical discoveries
Josh Shannon (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Growing up in Spring Hill, Fla., Josh Shannon did almost everything with his identical twin, Michael. So when it was time for the academically talented brothers to apply to colleges, naturally there was some overlap. “We weren’t set on going to the same school, but… Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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Telerobotic system designed to treat bladder cancer
An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities has designed a robotic microsurgery system specifically designed to treat bladder cancer, the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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High Fidelity: Cochlear implant users report dramatically better hearing with new Vanderbilt process
Longtime cochlear implant users are reporting such dramatic improvements in their hearing, thanks to new image-guided programming methods developed by Vanderbilt University researchers. Read MoreMar 5, 2013
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Cell connections key in valve disease
A protein that connects cells together participates in the calcification that occurs in heart valve disease. Read MoreFeb 14, 2013
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Grissom selected as Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigator
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Grissom has been selected as one of the 2013 Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigators and will participate in the event Feb. 25-26 at Georgia Tech’s Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Read MoreFeb 8, 2013
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Grissom selected as Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigator
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Grissom has been selected as one of the 2013 Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigators and will participate in the event Feb. 25-26 at Georgia Tech’s Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Read MoreFeb 6, 2013
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Director of German nanosciences institute is NanoDay! keynote speaker
Oliver Schmidt, director of the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany, is the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt University. The Forum and NanoDay! activities are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Materials Science. Read MoreOct 16, 2012