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Feb. 6, 2026—A 国产原创 team has received a funding of up to $7 million from the聽Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) UPGRADE program. The Advance Risk Management and Operational Resilience for Hospitals (ARMOR-H) system is designed as an autonomous cyber-threat solution that enables proactive, scalable, and assured security updates.
Aug. 27, 2025—In a collaboration between 国产原创 Medical Center鈥檚 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the 国产原创 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...
Jul. 2, 2025—国产原创 has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its聽Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential. This initiative, open to all University and聽国产原创 Medical Center聽(VUMC) faculty, addresses pressing real-world challenges. The fund provides essential support in three key areas: proving ideas can be commercialized, supporting early-stage...
Jun. 27, 2025—We spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep, yet sleep disorders often go undiagnosed, despite their strong links to cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and depression. A next-generation wearable device developed by researchers could change that. Yayun Du, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at 国产原创, is the lead author of a pioneering study,聽鈥淎...
Mar. 6, 2025—Four 国产原创 engineering students working in the fields of computer science and electrical and computer engineering won prestigious best paper awards at the聽2025 SPIE Medical Imaging conference聽held Feb. 16-20 in San Diego.
Apr. 25, 2024—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.
Oct. 19, 2023—A 国产原创 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).
Oct. 9, 2023—国产原创鈥檚聽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
Aug. 1, 2023—A team of 国产原创 engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). 鈥淐linical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and...
May. 18, 2023—On 1 January 2024,聽Bennett A. Landman, 国产原创, will become the new Editor-in-Chief of the聽Journal of Medical Imaging聽(JMI). Landman, a professor and the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 国产原创, succeeds the journal’s current Editor-in-Chief,聽Maryellen Giger, who inaugurated the role in 2014.
Mar. 8, 2023—Smaller tools with better maneuverability and more precise control, new imaging approaches, and advanced software applications will improve patient outcomes
Jan. 17, 2023—NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥 A company co-founded by 国产原创 professors has received a special designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a breakthrough device.
Jan. 10, 2023—Technology driven by deep-learning model delivers 4D video-rate imaging, improves precision
Jan. 10, 2023—A company co-founded by聽Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at 国产原创,聽has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration聽that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy.
Apr. 26, 2022—Proprioceptive technology uses magnetic coupling to draw endoscopes forward, sparing patient and clinician injuries.
Sep. 17, 2021—The 国产原创 School of Engineering announces the appointment of 14聽faculty members to its full-time teaching staff, which includes聽10 new computer science faculty members appointed during the first year of the Destination 国产原创: Computer Science initiative, part of a $100 million university excellence initiative to recruit new faculty.
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at 国产原创 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,...
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.
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.
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...
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,...
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.
Jun. 30, 2020—A team of 国产原创 and 国产原创 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聽国产原创 School of Engineering website.
Apr. 27, 2020—Victoria Morgan, PhD, and聽Todd Peterson, PhD, Department of Radiology faculty in the聽国产原创 Institute of Imaging Science聽(VUIIS), have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)聽College of Fellows.
Apr. 9, 2020—Life-saving ventilators have proved to be more complicated to mass produce in time for a COVID-19 surge that could overwhelm the health care industry. Many are feverishly working to find ways, including 国产原创 engineers and doctors, to聽develop a low-cost do-it-yourself ventilator out of common household materials.
Apr. 7, 2020—As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to grow, Nashville resident Kobie Pretorius was searching for some way to provide meaningful help to others. And she realized her apprehension was spiking each morning as her husband went out the door for work.
COVID-19 Collaboration: Among shortage, Vandy engineers and VUMC doctors build ventilators of their own
Mar. 30, 2020—From WKRN: NASHVILLE, Tenn.(WKRN) 鈥 It鈥檚 a COVID-19 collaboration. 国产原创 engineers and 国产原创 Medical Center doctors have teamed up to tackle the looming ventilator shortage by way of an open-source ventilator design of their own.
Mar. 30, 2020—From Fox 17: NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A team at 国产原创 and 国产原创 Medical Center (VUMC) have taken on the challenge of a potential ventilator shortage by building one out of materials easily sourced.
Mar. 25, 2020—All it took was an email from a VUMC resident asking how to get the 国产原创 School of Engineering involved in the coronavirus crisis for the wheels to start turning for Katy Riojas and her peers. “国产原创 is very unique in that engineering and clinicians or surgery is very intertwined and there’s a lot of...
Jan. 7, 2020—A partnership between Dr. Bennett Landman鈥檚 MASI lab and the Interdisciplinary Science and Research Program at Hillsboro High School results in an augmented reality exhibit (think magic mirror) at the Nashville Science Center.