Michael Miga

Aug. 27, 2025—In a collaboration between ��ԭ�� Medical Center’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the ��ԭ�� 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...

Mar. 3, 2025—��ԭ��’s Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) is hosting a screening of the upcoming film Rule Breakers, inspired by the true story of an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan that defied politics and tradition to compete in events around the world.

Feb. 7, 2025—Following an extensive national search, Prof. Michael Miga has been named as the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective January 1, 2025. Miga, who had served as the interim chair since the Fall of 2023, and is the Harvie Branscomb Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has accepted a three-year term in this role. Miga also leads the...

May. 21, 2024—Roy presented nine faculty awards, four staff awards and one research award based on an outstanding paper written by a graduate student. The Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service: Harvie Branscomb Professor and interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering Michael Miga and Julie Johnson, professor of the practice of computer science and associate...

Nov. 21, 2023—Researchers from around the globe gathered for the inaugural Nature conference “Bioengineering for Global Health” at ��ԭ�� Nov. 13–15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from Nature Communications, Nature Biomedical Engineering and Nature Reviews Bioengineering led the organization of the conference.

VISE Spring Seminar: Victoria Morgan, PhD and Michael Miga, PhD 4.20.23

Apr. 14, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Victoria Morgan, PhD Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences ��ԭ�� and Michael Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering ��ԭ�� Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: NIH grant writing: What you should know but were afraid to...

Feb. 7, 2023—A multidisciplinary team from the ��ԭ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop a low-cost simulation tool to train medical personnel in Kenya to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures.

VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.23.22

Jun. 14, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Graham Johnson, (BME), MSTP and Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Talk Title #1: Your First Grant Submission – How to Apply For an F31 Speaker #1: Graham Johnson, MD/PhD...

Mar. 7, 2022—A distinguished advisory board has been established for the Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention program, a novel professional degree designed to enhance training in the development of platform technologies used in procedural medicine.

Dec. 6, 2021—The ��ԭ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering 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.

Aug. 27, 2021—The results are in: Five cohorts of ��ԭ�� engineering doctoral students have experienced ‘paradigm-shifting training’ in surgery and intervention.

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.

Feb. 23, 2021—Michael Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor at ��ԭ�� and professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for achievements in technology guided surgery and computational modeling for therapeutic and imaging applications.

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 ��ԭ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Annual Surgery,...

VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.30.20

Jul. 28, 2020—Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020 Time: Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: Yubo Fan, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title: Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of the Intracochlear Anatomy and Its Validation on Image-guided Cochlear Implant Programming RIP #1 Description: Cochlear implants (CIs) are neuroprosthetic devices that...

$2.3 million NIH grant allows collaborators to focus on advancing liver cancer surgical care

Oct. 10, 2019—A multi-year collective effort between engineers, surgeons and scientists has resulted in a $2.3 million, four-year grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to improve laparoscopic liver surgery and liver cancer ablation therapy. The grant, “Deformation Corrected Image Guided Laparoscopic Liver Surgery,” supports a next-generation...

VISE Spring Seminar – Workshop with three guest speakers

Jan. 7, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Todd Peterson, PhD, Director of Nuclear Imaging, Associate Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, and Anna Fisher, CNMT, PET Technologist, VUIIS and Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 Time: 12:25pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center...

VISE takes SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 by storm

Mar. 2, 2018—Research is a huge component of involvement with ��ԭ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) but affiliation also comes with sharing that research and meeting like-minded scientists to make significant impacts in healthcare. Each year VISE participates in the SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, which is internationally recognized as the premier forum for relating state-of-the-art research...

Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Winona Richey

Mar. 2, 2018—Winona Richey is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student whose area of research includes image guidance for breast cancer surgery. Richey, who is in the Biomedical Modeling Lab (BML), a ��ԭ�� Institute of Surgery and Engineering (VISE) lab, was among the VISE students who presented work at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting. As lead...