Biomedical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Rubinov awarded $1.1M to study molecular underpinnings of human brain networks on a large scale

    Mikail Rubinov, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, computer science, psychiatry and psychology, has been awarded a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to better understand the development and organization of brain networks, as well as their change in… Read More

    Mar. 17, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering students win prize in Mental Health Innovation challenge

    Kelli Stewart, center, discusses her ideas during last week’s Mental Health Innovation Challenge and Hackathon. (photo by Donn Jones) by Paul Govern A chatbot — a computer program that simulates and processes human conversation — was the winning entrant in the Mental Health Innovation Challenge and Hackathon, held Feb. 25-26… Read More

    Mar. 8, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Advisory Board established for ESI program

    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. The ESI program, which admitted its first students in fall 2021, offers unparalleled exposure… Read More

    Mar. 5, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Wikswo, VIIBRE team on track to build third-generation ‘self-driving lab’ with $1M from NSF

    John Wikswo, founder and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education and Gordon A. Cain University Professor, is the principal investigator of a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation. The object is to build a pathbreaking “robot scientist”—a… Read More

    Mar. 5, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Professor Audrey Bowden elected to SPIE Board of Directors

    Audrey K. Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has been elected to the SPIE Board of Directors. She will serve a three-year term. Audrey Bowden SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is operated through an elected Board of Directors… Read More

    Mar. 1, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Multicenter team seeks to create at-home artificial lung system

    Vanderbilt team to focus on engineering, testing the device by Matt Batcheldor Vanderbilt University Medical Center will share in an $8.7 million federal grant to create an artificial lung system that patients with incurable lung disease can use at home. The Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) grant… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering professor Audrey Bowden is recipient of Lewis Latimer Fellowship for Black innovators

    Audrey K. Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has received a 2022 Lewis Latimer Fellowship. The exclusive program offers only six fellowships per class and fellows are selected through a rigorous nomination process. Audrey Bowden The fellowship program is… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Laser harp combines PhD student’s love of optics and music

    Mayna Nguyễn, a biomedical engineering PhD student, combines her love of optics and music in a laser harp she built and plays. Ph.D. student Mayna Nguyen recently combined a longtime hobby with her study of biomedical optics with dazzling results: a playable laser harp that embodies both her love for… Read More

    Feb. 21, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Two Vanderbilt engineering professors elected into AIMBE’s College of Fellows

    Christos Constantinidis, professor of biomedical engineering, and Zhaohua Ding, research professor of electrical engineering, have been elected into the 2022 class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Recipients of this honor, considered one of the highest in the biomedical engineering discipline, are chosen for… Read More

    Feb. 18, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Two engineering faculty members elected 2021 AAAS Fellows

    Two Vanderbilt engineering faculty members–Sharon Weiss and Michael King–have been elected as 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. The lifetime appointment honors individuals for their efforts in advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. Election as… Read More

    Jan. 26, 2022