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Jun. 23, 2021—The SPIE Faculty Fellowship will support a 国产原创 faculty member who is working in optics and photonics. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai 鈥淜enny鈥 Tao has been selected as the recipient of the first gift.
Jun. 8, 2021—A novel pre-doctoral program is presented that combines (1) immersive observation in the surgical/interventional theatre and (2) thought-provoking exposition activities focused on answering clinically provocative questions.
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 6.17.21
Jun. 4, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Joshua McCune,聽PhD Candidate (BME), and Rachel Ping, MS Candidate (BME) Speaker #1:聽 Joshua McCune, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: 聽ROS-responsive scaffolds with improved hydrophilicity for diabetic wound repair RIP #1 Description: More than...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 6.3.21
May. 14, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: William Tierney, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Peptide-based vascular therapies for the prevention of intimal hyperplasia and restenosis RIP #1 Description: Intimal hyperplasia, a thickening of the vascular wall, is a...
May. 6, 2021—CancerNetwork庐 shares its latest investigation into novel practices for rendering surgical management of prostate cancer from experts at 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering.
VISE affiliates receive $1.2 million NIH grant to develop safer colonoscopy for IBD patients
Apr. 13, 2021—A 国产原创 research team has received a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue developing a magnetic flexible endoscope for colonoscopies. The robotic platform has the has the potential to provide a safer, more accessible, and potentially painless alternative to standard colonoscopy for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Inflammatory bowel disease impacts...
Apr. 9, 2021—An interdisciplinary fellowship with the聽Data Science Institute聽has resulted in a promising machine-learning technology that can effectively track complex surgical activity, thus having the potential to improve patient outcomes, safety and documentation.
VISE Spring Seminar – Eric Shinohara, MD, MSCI
Apr. 9, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Eric Shinohara, MD, MSCI Ingram Associate Professor and Chair Department of Radiation Oncology, VUMC Date: April 29, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: The Evolving Landscape of Radiation Modalities in Medicine Speaker Bio: Dr. Eric Shinohara is Ingram Associate...
VISE Spring Seminar – David Kent, MD and Daniel Fabbri, PhD
Mar. 26, 2021—VISE Spring seminar to be led by David T. Kent, MD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of Sleep Surgery, VUMC and Daniel Fabbri, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, VUMC Date: April 8, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: Mapping the upper airway with high-resolution manometry...
Mar. 25, 2021—Since the inception of the聽国产原创 I-Corps Site Program聽just three years ago, more than 20 teams of VU innovators have been accepted into the National Science Foundation鈥檚 prestigious National I-Corps Program, turning their STEM ideas and research into novel inventions that聽improve health care,聽strengthen cybersecurity, produce clean energy, support people battling drug abuse and mental health disorders...
VISE Spring Seminar – Summer L. Gibbs, PhD
Mar. 12, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Summer L. Gibbs, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Oregon Health & Science University Date: March 25, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: 鈥淐an Fluorescence Guided Surgery Improve Patient Outcomes?鈥 Abstract: Surgery has a prominent role in clinical medicine with...
VISE Spring Seminar – Alex Krieger, PhD
Feb. 26, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Axel Krieger, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Date: March 11, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: Smart and Autonomous Robots for Surgery Abstract: Robotic assisted surgery (RAS) systems, incorporate highly dexterous tools, hand tremor filtering,...
Feb. 23, 2021—Michael Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor at 国产原创 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 国产原创 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).
VISE Spring Seminar – Lena Maier-Hein, PhD
Feb. 15, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lena Maier-Hein, PhD Head of Div. Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title:聽 Surgical Data Science Abstract:聽Machine learning has begun to revolutionize almost all...
Feb. 10, 2021—Researchers at the聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering have developed a minuscule robot that could revolutionize surgical procedures for treating prostate cancer, which affects one in nine men in the United States. Using a lifelike model, the team demonstrated that the surgical robot could not only remove the prostate gland and tissues through the urethra,...
Feb. 8, 2021—A lightweight camera designed to be worn around a surgeon鈥檚 neck provides videos of operations, including open procedures, and is serving as a resource to enhance the training of surgical residents and for quality improvement initiatives.
VISE Spring Seminar – Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD and Shramana Ghosh, PhD,
Jan. 29, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, VUMC Shramana Ghosh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow The 国产原创 Dermatology Translational Research Clinic (VDTRC) Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: Measurement of soft tissue biomechanical properties for...
Jan. 27, 2021—
VISE affiliates developing a novel integrative approach for early detection of lung cancer
Jan. 20, 2021—国产原创 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, 国产原创 will offer a graduate program that will equip engineers to improve translation of technology for medical procedures and surgery.
Jan. 15, 2021—The聽Women of VISE聽are hosting a virtual聽Wikithon聽focused on women in science, technology, engineering and math the week of Jan. 18 to contribute to and improve the quality of Wikipedia pages on female scientists and researchers. The聽event聽is open to the public; it requires registration on Wikipedia.聽
VISE Spring Seminar – Sarah Bick, MD and Michael Topf, MD
Jan. 6, 2021—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Sarah Bick, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, VUMC Title #1:聽 Novel Approaches to Deep Brain Stimulation Speaker #1 Short Bio:聽 Dr. Sarah Bick joined the Department of Neurosurgery as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in August. After receiving her BA in neurobiology from Harvard University and MD...
Jan. 6, 2021—For the last eight years, on the second Wednesday in December, poster boards were set up at the crack of dawn in the lobby of Light Hall. Students, postdocs and faculty members would trickle in a few hours later to hang the poster themselves. By afternoon, the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 Annual Surgery,...
Nov. 20, 2020—国产原创 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. 19, 2020—A collaboration between international and 国产原创 researchers is helping to update a tried-and-true medical technology for the 21st聽century. The development of an intelligent and autonomous Magnetic Flexible Endoscope holds the promise of making colonoscopies safer, less painful, more widely available and less expensive.聽聽
Nov. 10, 2020—国产原创 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 Fall Seminar – Sheila Russo, PhD
Nov. 6, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Sheila Russo, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Boston University Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title:聽 Toward Soft Robotic Systems for Advanced Endoscopic Procedures Abstract:聽 Traditional medical robots are mainly based on the idea of...
VISE Fall Seminar – Elisa Konofagou, PhD
Oct. 27, 2020—聽VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title:聽 Ultrasound-based Brain Therapeutics and Cancer Elasticity Imaging Abstract:聽 Therapeutic ultrasound is older than ultrasound...
Oct. 22, 2020—New assistive technologies allowing high-risk neurovascular procedures to be done more widely and easily are being developed by an interdisciplinary team of surgeons and engineers at 国产原创 Medical Center.