Diabetes

  • Vanderbilt University

    NIH training program in engineering and diabetes competitively renewed for another five years

    The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year grant through the NIH’s flagship T32 institutional training grant program. T32 grants provide funding to support students and postdoctoral trainees working in focused areas of research that advance the NIH… Read More

    Jul. 17, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME postdoc joins Academic Pathways fellowship program

    Andrea Locke (Vanderbilt University) A biomedical engineer who has specialized in developing affordable, portable and rapid point-of-care glucose management devices is in the second cohort of fellows in Vanderbilt’s Academic Pathways Postdoctoral Fellowship program. The program serves as a bridge between academic training and entry-level faculty positions with a particular… Read More

    Oct. 2, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Researchers seek answers to cancer, diabetic wounds in controlling gene networks

    Kelsey Beavers, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. candidate in interdisciplinary materials science, is exploring how inserting engineering into biological processes can lead to a healthier society. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt University) Behind the pathology for a variety of painful and deadly diseases lie genes that aren’t doing their jobs. They… Read More

    Mar. 27, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    7 Vanderbilt engineers who found winter break was prime time for research

    Relieved undergraduates turned in their finals and jetted off for winter break a few weeks ago, leaving the halls at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering almost unnervingly empty. But there’s no break for research. Anyone in need of company could find labs full of Ph.D. candidates working practically… Read More

    Jan. 2, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Duvall receives NSF Early Career award

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. Craig L. Duvall The five-year, $500,000 grant – Polythioketal Hydrogel For SiRNA-Enhanced Regenerative Cell Therapies – will allow Duvall to continue research on advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the… Read More

    Aug. 28, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Students receive national award to help commercialize wound-healing foam

      Graduate students Drew Harmata, left, and Jon Page with Professor Scott Guelcher, right. (Anne Rayner / Vanderbilt) A pair of Vanderbilt graduate students has received a national award of $15,000 to pursue the development of an unique synthetic foam as a new treatment for deep skin wounds such… Read More

    Oct. 2, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Doctoral student Alexandra Leamy wins P.E.O. Scholar Award

    Alexandra Leamy, a Ph.D student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, is one of 85 doctoral students nationwide selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter EV in Cincinnati, Ohio. Alex Leamy Leamy’s research focus is type-2 diabetes and obesity, and she… Read More

    Apr. 22, 2013