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The Office of the Vice Provost of Research is partnering with editors from Nature Communications and Nature Biomedical Engineering for a workshop to help researchers get published in top journals. Professor Audrey Bowden. The workshop follows on the heels of the Nature Conference on Bioengineering for Global Health conference… Read More

Michael R. King, the J. Lawrence Wilson Professor of Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2024 BMES CMBE Christopher Jacobs Award for Excellence in Leadership for his work in the cellular and molecular bioengineering community. Professor Michael R. King. King holds a secondary appointment in radiology and… Read More

  As the fall recruiting season for graduate students gets underway — from M.S. and M. Eng. to Ph.D. candidates — Gabriel Luis will become a familiar face to prospects hoping to learn more about Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering. Fluent in Spanish, Chinese and English, Gabriel travels to universities… Read More

Three engineering Ph.D. students have received prestigious 2024 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships, a showing that highlights Vanderbilt’s strengths as a hub of transportation research, connected cities, resilience and sustainability. Fellows are selected through a competitive process that includes university panels and a national selection panel. The awards, up to $35,000… Read More

By Amy Wolf Today’s fight against infectious diseases is being waged in the computer lab as much as the wet lab. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Vanderbilt researchers and students like School of Engineering undergraduate Karen Pu are expanding the power of computer modeling to identify mutating viruses—and… Read More

Justus Ndukaife has received an Optica Foundation Challenge Prize to advance his optics research. He is one of 10 awardees and one of only three researchers in the United States to share the $1M prize. Justus Ndukaife The 2023 Challenge awardees were announced today during the opening plenary session… Read More

Robert Webster (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt University’s Robert Webster and Charleson Bell, BE’07, MS’09, PhD’15, will receive $12 million to establish and manage the Mid-South Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub. REACH will focus on accelerating real-world impact of biomedical innovations… Read More

  Marjan Rafat, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, biomedical engineering and radiation oncology, has received the Young Innovator Award from the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering division of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The CMBE Young Innovator Award is a distinguished honor for young faculty in the biomolecular… Read More

Two Vanderbilt researchers are part of a team that earned a $1 million grant to develop AI-based training that will help neurodiverse people learn to drive—addressing a huge obstacle for that population. Nilanjan Sarkar “The ability to drive will open up new opportunities for employment and a life of independence… Read More

A collaborative team led by Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, William Fissell, associate professor of nephrology and hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Shuvo Roy, professor of bioengineering at University of California, San Francisco, and Francesco Fornasiero, biosciences and biotechnology staff scientist… Read More