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Harvie Branscomb Professor Michael I. Miga has been appointed director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE). Miga is a co-founder of VISE with Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering Benoit Dawant, whom he succeeds. Michael Miga VISE is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional program that supports interactions… Read More

Benoit Dawant has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024 conference in San Diego. Benoit Dawant Dawant is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor… Read More

Visitors to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR) anatomy that creates the illusion of an X-ray view of the body’s muscles and bones. Read More

A multidisciplinary group of investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery. This diagram relates to research, “The Interictal Suppression Hypothesis… Read More

This past summer, 13 Vanderbilt undergraduates were selected to work on projects focused on epilepsy, miniature soft climbing robots, stroke treatment, kidney disease research, cancer resection and surgical skill assessment as part of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Summer Fellows Program (VSF). Read More

The research team includes, left to right, Bruno Scaglioni, PhD; Keith Obstein MD, MPH; James Martin, PhD; Claire Landewee; Simone Calò, PhD; and Pietro Valdastri, PhD. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Jill Clendening A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) research team is conducting the first phase 1 clinical… Read More

Robert Webster (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt University’s Robert Webster and Charleson Bell, BE’07, MS’09, PhD’15, will receive $12 million to establish and manage the Mid-South Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub. REACH will focus on accelerating real-world impact of biomedical innovations… Read More

A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering team working to create a navigational system to decrease stone fragments left behind after surgery includes Nicholas Kavoussi, MD, left, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ipek Oguz, PhD, and Daiwei Lu, computer science Ph.D. student. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Jill Clendening A… Read More

By Lucas Johnson When Robert J. Webster III was working on an engineering project for his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, he was struck with an unnerving thought: The technology he was helping create seemed interesting, but it wouldn’t reach patients for at least 20 years. “And that’s only… Read More

A hands-on interactive class designed by graduate students in the Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MEDLab) for high school students drew enthusiastic reviews from a Nashville college-preparatory school group. Sessions included introduction to engineering and STEM, computer aided design, robotics and coding, bioinspired design, and a civil engineering module on… Read More