Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering
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Trans-institutional collaboration receives $2 million BRAIN Initiative grant, developing brain organoids to map neurological development
Vivian Gama, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, and Leon Bellan, associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, have won a $2.3 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Brain Research through Advancing… Read MoreFeb. 3, 2021
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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 MoreJan. 27, 2021
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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 MoreJan. 25, 2021
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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 MoreJan. 7, 2021
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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 MoreJan. 5, 2021
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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 MoreDec. 8, 2020
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Rafat receives Conquer Cancer Award from Concern Foundation
Marjan Rafat, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received an award for young and innovative cancer researchers from the Concern Foundation. With it, she will investigate whether and how radiation therapy for triple negative breast cancer encourages circulating tumor cells to return to the original tumor site,… Read MoreNov. 18, 2020
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Engineering lab returns during Vanderbilt’s Research Ramp-up to advance research in neurodegeneration
Members of Professor Ethan Lippmann’s Neurovascular Engineering and Therapeutic Design Laboratory. The lab of Ethan Lippmann, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and biomedical engineering, seeks to model, understand, and ultimately treat neurodegeneration, focusing primarily on the blood-brain barrier, a border of protective blood vessels found in… Read MoreNov. 16, 2020
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Team’s sustained work in T-cell immune response awarded P01 grant totaling $11 million
For more than a decade Matt Lang and collaborators across the U.S. have worked to recreate key components of T-cells and how they know when to start fighting disease. Conventional wisdom suggested that T-cells formed regular, force-free bonds with infected cells, and in doing so caused the chain reaction of… Read MoreOct. 4, 2020
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NSF seed grant supports biomanufacturing of new drug delivery technologies
Vanderbilt researchers awarded one of NSF’s 24 new projects to drive future manufacturing One of the challenges of drug delivery systems is to optimize their targeting properties so therapeutic compounds used in smaller amounts reach only a specific area of the body and result in little or no… Read MoreOct. 2, 2020