Biomedical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Annual event underscores contributions of women in STEM fields

    Clockwise from left: Ayanna Howard, Connie Guion, Kristina Rogers, Ruth DeFries, Leslie Ying, Mukta Ghate Farooq, and Ellis Meng are among the Wikipedia pages edited during the annual event organized by Women of VISE. Marguerite Davis was one two biochemists who discovered vitamins A and B in 1913, though her university… Read More

    Jan. 27, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dozens of engineering professors among world’s top 2% of working scientists

    Nearly 40 School of Engineering faculty members have been named among the top 2 percent of 7 million working scientists in the world. More than 60 percent of the school’s full professors are in this elite group, based on a recent study by a Stanford University professor and his colleagues. Read More

    Jan. 25, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Cancer Institute grant funds new integrated approach to early lung cancer detection

    Vanderbilt 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—structural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health… Read More

    Jan. 22, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Improving the Wikipedia gender gap with Women of VISE begins Jan. 18

    The Women of VISE are hosting a virtual Wikithon focused on women in science, technology, engineering and math the week of Jan. 18 to contribute to and improve the quality of Wikipedia pages on female scientists and researchers. The event is… Read More

    Jan. 15, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    New engineering graduate program in surgery and intervention launches in fall 2021

    In fall 2021, Vanderbilt University will offer a graduate program that will equip engineers to improve translation of technology for medical procedures and surgery. The School of Engineering, in partnership with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, is launching a master’s of engineering program in surgery and intervention… Read More

    Jan. 13, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Three Vanderbilt engineers among 2021 winners of NBJ’s 40 Under 40 Awards

    Vanderbilt engineers, two alumni and one faculty member, have been selected for the Nashville Business Journal’s 2021 40 Under 40 list. It recognizes the city’s most prominent young business leaders. Julia Whitacre Considered emerging business leaders, Julia Doolittle Whitacre, BS’06, engineering science, Austin Dirks, BE’08, biomedical engineering, and Karl Zelik,… Read More

    Jan. 12, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Brunger leads $1.5 million NSF project to develop advanced brain organoids

    Vanderbilt engineers have received a $1.49 million National Science Foundation grant to advance the science of organoids with cells that organize themselves and mimic development of human brain structures. Organoids are lab-produced groups of cells that serve as research models for human physiology in development and disease, including design and… Read More

    Jan. 7, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Custom, virtual world highlights annual VISE symposium

    The annual VISE symposium highlights projects in a customized, virtual world. Interactive showcase remains open 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… Read More

    Jan. 5, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Neuroengineer joins School of Engineering Jan. 1, 2021

    Christos Constantinidis has been appointed professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering beginning Jan. 1, 2021. At Vanderbilt, he also will be a member of the university’s Brain Institute and the Vision Research Center. He joins the School of Engineering from the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Christos Constantinidis Constantinidis’… Read More

    Dec. 16, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering school’s three new endowed fellowships support researchers, faculty recruitment

    Through a Faculty Fellowship Challenge, donors have established endowments that will support rising faculty talent in the School of Engineering. Sally Baker Hopkins, BE’78, and David L. Hopkins, Caroline and Jack P. Williams Jr., BE’86, and Laura J. and William W. Hoy Jr., BA’64, have provided support for faculty fellowships… Read More

    Dec. 8, 2020