BME

Oscar Ayala, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense. Ayala’s fellowship is awarded through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Oscar Ayala Awarded… Read More

Todd Giorgio, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) as its Academic Council Chair for 2014-2016. Giorgio was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the Academic Council. Giorgio Giorgio has recently served as the… Read More

The Vanderbilt student team – with Cynthia Paschal (left, foreground) and Matthew Walker (center, background), biomedical engineering professors – huddles with the Juan Pablo II hospital administrators to deliver final equipment report summaries. Two engineering professors and 12 undergraduates spent their spring break repairing medical equipment at hospitals in Guatemala… Read More

One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of Engineering. BME Week, commemorating these two milestones, kicks off… Read More