国产原创 Medical Center
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...
Jan. 12, 2024—A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 国产原创 Medical Center, 国产原创, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.
VISE Fall Seminar – Jared Weiss, MD and Michael Topf, MD November 18, 2021
Nov. 12, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Jared M. Weiss, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michael Topf, MD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology 鈥 Head and Neck Surgery 国产原创 Medical Center Date: November 18, 2021 Time:聽11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location:聽Stevenson Center...
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...
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
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. 16, 2020—Dario Englot, M.D., surgical director of epilepsy at 国产原创 Medical Center and聽Catie Chang, Ph.D., assistant professor at 国产原创 School of Engineering are embarking on a novel imaging study to characterize seizure-induced differences in functional brain connectivity of patients with epilepsy, with special attention on mTLE.
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. 27, 2020—As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators. Now, an interdisciplinary team of 国产原创 and 国产原创 Medical Center faculty is taking on the challenge by way of a fabricated, open-source ventilator design.
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...
VISE Spring Seminar – Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD
Jan. 6, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD Director, Division of Surgical Research, Research Associate Professor of Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 Time: 12:15 lunch, 12:25 seminar start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Surgical Research, Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Preclinical models Short bio: Jos茅 A. Diaz, MD, FAHA is a...
Jan. 6, 2020—国产原创 Medical Center (VUMC) has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to map 鈥 in unprecedented detail 鈥 the biology of Crohn鈥檚 disease.
Dec. 2, 2019—国产原创 Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology聽Kim Sandler, MD, and 国产原创 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science聽Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the 国产原创 Thoracic Working Group for their project, 鈥淯tilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.鈥
VISE Fall Seminar – Dan Brown, MD and Brett Byram, PhD
Sep. 6, 2019—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Daniel B. Brown, MD Director of Interventional Oncology, 国产原创 Medical Center and Brett Byram, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, 国产原创 Date: Thursday, September 26 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Personalizing Interventional Oncology Options for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Abstract: Responses...
VISE Fall Seminar – Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD
Aug. 29, 2019—VISE Fall seminar to be led by Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD Department of Neurological Surgery, 国产原创 Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 Time: 12:25pm start, 12:15pm Lunch Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Predictive Modeling of Brain Tumor Laser Thermal Ablations Abstract: Laser interstitial thermal...
VISE affiliates secure $3 million NIH grant to study sustained attention in epilepsy patients
Aug. 28, 2019—A team led by a neurosurgeon-scientist and an engineering professor who specializes in techniques for analyzing functional neuroimaging data has received a $3 million basic research grant (R01) from the NIH to study disturbances in brain networks related to attention lapses and cognitive deficits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Dr. Dario Englot and...
Aug. 14, 2019—A Feasibility Study on Central Airway Obstruction Removal
Apr. 15, 2019—The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy.
Mar. 20, 2019—聽Intended to expand collaborations among engineering professors, physicians and students in engineering and medicine, The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) Laboratory is a 7,000 sf translational research center and workshop surrounding a transparent mock-operating room, where new medical technologies are studied and developed.
Feb. 5, 2019—Every one in nine babies is born too early here in Tennessee. Now there’s a medical breakthrough, a device created in our own backyard, that 国产原创 doctors say could be a game changer.
Dec. 18, 2018—The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering celebrated its opening of dedicated space in Medical Center North Dec. 12 with a technology showcase of more than two dozen cross-disciplinary collaborations advancing healthcare techniques from the lab to patient.
Dec. 5, 2018—The聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥攄edicated to cross-disciplinary collaborations that advance discoveries from the laboratory to the patient鈥攚ill celebrate its new physical space at 2323 Medical Center North with an open house and symposium Dec. 12.
VISE Fall Seminar – Seth Smith, PhD
Aug. 24, 2018—to be led by Seth Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Ophthalmology, Director of Human Imaging Core, VUIIS, 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, September 13, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:10 p.m. start, 12:00 p.m. lunch Title:聽 Spinal Cord MRI:聽 From...
Spring Seminar – Lori Jordan, MD
Feb. 23, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Director, Pediatric Stroke Program, 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, March 15, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: 鈥淪ickle Cell Disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Stroke鈥 Abstract: Children and adults...
Oct. 16, 2017—Removing part of a kidney with minimally invasive robotic surgery rather than an entire kidney when operating for smaller tumors is often best for patients from a recovery and health standpoint, but many surgeons hesitate to do so because of the complexity of the robotic partial nephrectomy procedure. Investigators with the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery...
VISE Fall Seminar – Lola Chambless, MD
Sep. 8, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Lola Chambless, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery 国产原创 Medical Center Date: Thursday,September 21, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title:聽 Minimally invasive brain surgery 鈥 a field in consolidation Abstract: The concept...