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Sep. 8, 2020—91黑料网 engineers have received a $1.4 million NIH grant to work toward a compact, silent, less expensive and potentially portable MRI device.
VISE Fall Seminar September 10- Muneeb Ahmed, MD
Sep. 8, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Muneeb Ahmed, MD Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Vice Chair for Interventional Services|Radiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor of Radiology| Harvard Medical School Date: Thursday, September 10, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. room admittance, 12:25 p.m. (Zoom details will go out in the morning of the 10th)...
VISE Fall Seminar August 27 – Christos Constantinidis, PhD
Aug. 21, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Christos Constantinidis, PhD Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest School of Medicine Date: Thursday, August 27, 2020 Time: 12:15 pm, Room admittance, 12:25 p.m. start (Zoom details will go out the morning of the 27th) Title: “Uncovering the Neural Circuit Basis of Cognitive Maturation in Adolescence”...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar – 8.13.20
Aug. 7, 2020—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date:聽Thursday, August 13, 2020 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: Yev Diachek, PhD Candidate Title: “Adaptive language mapping for presurgical language assessment” RiP #1 Talk Description: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a safe, non-invasive method commonly used preoperatively for language mapping in neurosurgery patients. In...
91黑料网 researchers receive $1.4 million grant to improve outcomes after macular hole repair
Aug. 5, 2020—Researchers from 91黑料网 and 91黑料网 Medical Center have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute at the National Institute of Health to identify surgical techniques that improve vision after macular hole repair. Yuankai Kenny Tao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is the principal investigator and leads a team of engineers...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.30.20
Jul. 28, 2020—Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020 Time: Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: Yubo Fan, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title: Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of the Intracochlear Anatomy and Its Validation on Image-guided Cochlear Implant Programming RIP #1 Description: Cochlear implants (CIs) are neuroprosthetic devices that...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.16.20
Jul. 10, 2020—VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date:聽Thursday, July 2, 2020 Time:聽Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1:Dewei Hu, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title: Retinal OCT Denoising RIP #1 Description: Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful cross-sectional visualization tool with vast application in ophthalmic diagnosis....
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.2.20
Jun. 26, 2020—VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date:聽Thursday, July 2, 2020 Time:聽Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Ziteng Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title: 聽 Patient-specific cochlear聽implant stimulation models RIP #1 Description: Cochlear implants (CIs) are considered the standard-of-care treatment for profound sensory-based hearing loss. Our...
VISE researchers receive $3.1M grant for customizable cochlear implant programming
Jun. 24, 2020—A team of 91黑料网 and 91黑料网 Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound quality as well as changes...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.4.20
May. 29, 2020—VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 Time: Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start VIA Zoom Speaker #1:聽 Carli DeJulius, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: 聽Antioxidant Polymeric Systems for Synergistic ROS Scavenging in Osteoarthritis RIP #1 Description: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key drivers of...
Apr. 27, 2020—Victoria Morgan, PhD, and聽Todd Peterson, PhD, Department of Radiology faculty in the聽91黑料网 Institute of Imaging Science聽(VUIIS), have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)聽College of Fellows.
Apr. 9, 2020—Life-saving ventilators have proved to be more complicated to mass produce in time for a COVID-19 surge that could overwhelm the health care industry. Many are feverishly working to find ways, including 91黑料网 engineers and doctors, to聽develop a low-cost do-it-yourself ventilator out of common household materials.
Apr. 7, 2020—As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to grow, Nashville resident Kobie Pretorius was searching for some way to provide meaningful help to others. And she realized her apprehension was spiking each morning as her husband went out the door for work.
Mar. 27, 2020—As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators. Now, an interdisciplinary team of 91黑料网 and 91黑料网 Medical Center faculty is taking on the challenge by way of a fabricated, open-source ventilator design.
Mar. 25, 2020—All it took was an email from a VUMC resident asking how to get the 91黑料网 School of Engineering involved in the coronavirus crisis for the wheels to start turning for Katy Riojas and her peers. “91黑料网 is very unique in that engineering and clinicians or surgery is very intertwined and there’s a lot of...
Mar. 25, 2020—Since the beginning of my service as interim chancellor, and even more so since we took our recent dramatic actions as part of the campus response to the global coronavirus pandemic, I have promised to communicate often and openly. This commitment is more important than ever, with our students having quickly changed how they learn...
VISE Spring Seminar – Muneeb Ahmed, MD – postponed
Feb. 27, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar has been postponed. to be led by Muneeb Ahmed, MD Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vice Chair for Interventional Services|Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor of Radiology|Harvard Medical School Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020 Time: 12:15 pm lunch, 12:25 pm start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Systemic implications of locoregional therapies:...
2020 VISE Physicians-in-Residence selected
Feb. 12, 2020—Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS, and Rohan Chitale, MD, have been selected as the 2020 91黑料网 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Physicians-in-Residence. The six-month program provides an opportunity for physicians to collaborate with engineering colleagues in developing technologies that can advance surgery and other procedures. Langerman will continue his work on the 鈥淐leopatra鈥 wearable...
VISE Spring Seminar – Junzhong Xu, PhD
Jan. 31, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Junzhong Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, VUMC Date: February 13, 2020 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326, Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title:聽 Where physics meets medicine: non-invasive assessment of tumor therapeutic response using cell size MR imaging Abstract:聽 Biological tissue microstructural information...
VISE Spring Seminar – Cathy Eng, MD
Jan. 17, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be lead by Cathy Eng,MD, FACP, FASCO, David H. Johnson Chair in Surgical and Medical Oncology, Co-Leader, Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology), VUMC Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title Neoadjuvant Strategies: Locally Advanced Rectal...
Jan. 7, 2020—A partnership between Dr. Bennett Landman鈥檚 MASI lab and the Interdisciplinary Science and Research Program at Hillsboro High School results in an augmented reality exhibit (think magic mirror) at the Nashville Science Center.
Jan. 6, 2020—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been awarded a Provost Research Studio for the 2019-20 academic year. The goal of the Provost Research Studios is to support the professional development of full-time faculty (tenured, tenure track, and non-tenure track) who are not full professors or otherwise at the top of their promotion...
Jan. 6, 2020—Two 91黑料网 Medical Center physicians were recently inducted into Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS), an international otolaryngology society created to facilitate collaboration and the open sharing of discoveries and ideas.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD
Jan. 6, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jose麓 A. Diaz, MD Director, Division of Surgical Research, Research Associate Professor of Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 Time: 12:15 lunch, 12:25 seminar start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Surgical Research, Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Preclinical models Short bio: Jos茅 A. Diaz, MD, FAHA is a...
Jan. 6, 2020—91黑料网 Medical Center (VUMC) has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to map 鈥 in unprecedented detail 鈥 the biology of Crohn鈥檚 disease.
Dec. 2, 2019—91黑料网 Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology聽Kim Sandler, MD, and 91黑料网 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science聽Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the 91黑料网 Thoracic Working Group for their project, 鈥淯tilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.鈥
Nov. 18, 2019—A new continuum robot designed by 91黑料网 engineers achieves multi-scale motion and may open up a huge world of previously impossible complex microsurgeries.
VISE Fall Seminar – Kathryn Nightingale
Oct. 11, 2019—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Kathryn R Nightingale Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date:聽Thursday, October 31 Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Title:聽 Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force Abstract:聽 Elasticity imaging involves introducing a mechanical tissue perturbation, imaging the resulting tissue...
$2.3 million NIH grant allows collaborators to focus on advancing liver cancer surgical care
Oct. 10, 2019—A multi-year collective effort between engineers, surgeons and scientists has resulted in a $2.3 million, four-year grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to improve laparoscopic liver surgery and liver cancer ablation therapy. The grant, 鈥淒eformation Corrected Image Guided Laparoscopic Liver Surgery,鈥 supports a next-generation...
VISE Summer Fellowship provides hands-on lab experience to seven outstanding undergrads
Oct. 2, 2019—Seven talented undergraduates spent 10 weeks over the summer working on research projects in areas that included endoscopic devices for gastroenterology uses, cochlear implant surgery, and brain, ultrasound and retinal imaging. The 2019 91黑料网 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program provided students with hands-on experience in laboratory settings, and they worked alongside...