October 2020

BIG DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING  One project aims to set the stage for global monitoring of the biome for the early detection of pathogens and prevention of potential pandemics. A second project targets creation of a standardized platform that will streamline the development, testing and dissemination of technology to… Read More

A bold engineering approach to sort breast cancer cells based on their behavior first has produced compelling data that show less migratory cells create more metastases, contradicting the prevailing hypothesis on how cancer spreads. Preliminary discoveries by Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, have led to surprising results. Read More

Novel association toolkit available online With the ability to more easily find co-occurring conditions, Vanderbilt researchers already have identified some conditions that appear prior to a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. They parsed the data to look at the medical histories of children less than two years old who… Read More

The Novel Finding Index assigns well-known disease associations a low ranking, as shown above with Alzheimer’s Disease. A new Vanderbilt-developed big data tool reveals novel associations between chronic diseases and lesser-known conditions that may help detect disease earlier and identify new research paths. Using machine learning, anonymized electronic medical records,… Read More

In the most recent fiscal year 35 U.S. patents were issued, representing 68 School of Engineering inventors. Read More

Four of every 10 first-year students in the most recent class to enroll are women. Read More

The first woman enrolled in the School of Engineering in 1911. We highlight other milestones and notable alumnae across more than 100 years. Read More

Faculty members have received NSF CAREER Awards, endowed professorships and other honors. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineers, clinicians and imaging scientists is developing a focused ultrasound neuromodulation device as a non-invasive and non-addictive method for treating chronic pain. The device will look like an MRI head coil and combine functional MRI with ultrasound neuromodulation. The combination will allow researchers to simultaneously alter neuronal… Read More

Drawing on real-world data to provide solutions to the challenges cities face has never been more important. Read More