Cancer Research

  • Vanderbilt University

    Biomedical engineering graduate student is a Ford Foundation Fellow

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Feb. 7, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nanoengineering may hold the key to developing more effective, safer treatments for a deadly childhood cancer

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Sep. 15, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    $1.9 million NIH project to investigate effects of shear stress on cancer cells

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt bioengineer’s trailblazing cancer research receives $1M W. M. Keck Foundation grant

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Jul. 14, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Like geese and race cars, cancer cells draft their way to new sites

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Mar. 25, 2019

  • Professor John Wilson

    Engineering researcher wins Stand Up to Cancer award for ‘smart’ nanoparticles

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Apr. 4, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Amy Shah receives Vanderbilt’s Lai Sulin Scholarship

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Jan. 15, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering graduate student selected to attend Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    New technique tracks breast cancer subtypes, treatment effectiveness

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Oct. 21, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mahadevan-Jansen elected a director of international optics society

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

    Oct. 18, 2013