Medical Devices

Vanderbilt Department of Computer Science researchers Kevin Leach and James Weimer have been awarded a $2 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps,… Read More

BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

Vanderbilt biomedical engineering undergraduates and engineering students from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala worked in teams to repair equipment at four hospitals in Guatemala over spring break. An anesthesia vaporizer that doesn’t deliver enough anesthesia; a rattling infant incubator with a tilted impeller; an infusion pump stuck in permanent “hold” mode;… Read More

GreenLight Medical was 1 of 13 companies selected for Google Pitch Day in 2017. Austin Dirks (BE’08), right, is CEO; Stephen Saine (BS’04), left, is technical architect. Three key experiences paved the way for Austin Dirks (BE’08) and Stephen Saine (BS’04) to launch a medical device and technology procurement platform… Read More

ViTAL founder Jenna Gorlewicz (PhD’13) fields a question from the audience at the fourth annual VISE Symposium. (Vanderbilt University/Joe Howell) The world’s smartest technology means nothing if there’s no market for it. And the best business and marketing plan is pointless if there’s not effective engineering to… Read More

The treatment of many diseases and serious health conditions has changed dramatically over the past two decades due to the availability of new interventional medical devices designed to improve health or alter the course of disease. The explosive growth of coronary intervention procedures has been fueled by new devices such… Read More