Biomedical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dean Fauchet recognizes outstanding 2022 engineering graduates

    Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2022 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients. Shubham Gulati of Edmond, Oklahoma, is Founder’s Medalist for the School of Engineering. Long Viet Than of Hanoi, Vietnam, will lead 2022 engineering undergraduates to their Commencement seats as the… Read More

    May. 12, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dean Fauchet presents 2021-2022 faculty, staff and student research awards

    Dean Philippe Fauchet announced the promotions of five engineering faculty members at the final School of Engineering faculty meeting of the 2021-2022 academic year and presented four awards at a reception following the May 10 meeting. Three faculty members have been promoted to the rank of professor: Joshua Caldwell, mechanical… Read More

    May. 10, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nineteen engineering students awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

    Biomedical engineering nets more than any BME department in the country with 10 Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships. NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000… Read More

    Apr. 29, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Lucy Britto broadens access to biomedical science community through mentoring

    By Amy Wolf When digging into a scientific challenge, biomedical engineering major Lucy Britto aims to do more than solve a problem. She also wants to open doors to the scientific community by helping others understand the solution and broadening access for traditionally underrepresented groups. Left,… Read More

    Apr. 27, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    School of Engineering is #3 in Giving Day 2022; Challenge gifts unlocked

    The Giving Day results are in: Almost 6,000 members of the Vanderbilt community, including alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends, donated more than $5 million as of 11:00 a.m. on April 22, with donations still coming in.  At the conclusion of the event on April 21, the School… Read More

    Apr. 22, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering’s Design Days 2022 returns to in-person, jam-packed event April 28-29

    Two-day event in Featheringill Hall to showcase 77 engineering design projects Design Days 2022 in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering will highlight 77 problem-solving projects developed by teams of students during the 2021-2022 academic year. The annual celebration returns to an in-person jam-packed event in Featheringill Hall following two… Read More

    Apr. 21, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    International collaboration reveals how the human brain evolved to harness abstract thought

    By Marissa Shapiro THE IDEA The human brain is organized in functional networks—connected brain regions that communicate with each other through dedicated pathways. That is how we perceive our senses, how the body moves, how we are able to remember the past and plan for the future. The… Read More

    Apr. 12, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Study finds 10-second videos predict blood cancer relapse

    Biomedical engineering prof says study raises the prospect of a new application of diagnostic optical biopsy Inga Saknite, PhD, Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD, and colleagues are studying how white blood cell motion in the skin’s microvasculature can help predict which stem cell and bone marrow transplant patients would have a relapse… Read More

    Apr. 4, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Justin Baba is associate director of Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt

    Justin Baba, research associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been named associate director of the Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt. In this new role, he will oversee educational programs. Justin Baba The center is focused on targeted educational programs for medical residents and fellows as well as graduate and undergraduate students… Read More

    Mar. 28, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    U.S. precision medicine research program releases genomic data

    by Paul Govern Earlier this month the All of Us Research Program released an initial large batch of genomic data on its cloud-based research platform, the Researcher Workbench, including whole genome sequences of 98,600 research participants and genotype data from 165,200 participants. Paul Harris “Thanks to its many research participants… Read More

    Mar. 22, 2022