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Jul. 2, 2025—91�Թ�� has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential. This initiative, open to all University and 91�Թ�� Medical Center (VUMC) faculty, addresses pressing real-world challenges. The fund provides essential support in three key areas: proving ideas can be commercialized, supporting early-stage...

Jan. 12, 2024—A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 91�Թ�� Medical Center, 91�Թ��, 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.

VISE Fall Seminar – Jared Weiss, MD and Michael Topf, MD November 18, 2021

Nov. 12, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Jared M. Weiss, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michael Topf, MD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery 91�Թ�� Medical Center Date: November 18, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center...

VISE affiliates developing a novel integrative approach for early detection of lung cancer

Jan. 20, 2021—91�Թ�� researchers have received a National Cancer Institute grant to develop a novel, integrative approach to detect early signs of lung cancer. The four-year project builds on a related, recent study that established the value of using three separate measures—structural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health records—to predict lung cancer in...

Nov. 10, 2020—91�Թ�� and VUMC researchers have created a technique that corrects distortions in MRI images, which helps researchers and radiologists to better interpret brain scans.

Apr. 27, 2020—Victoria Morgan, PhD, and Todd Peterson, PhD, Department of Radiology faculty in the 91�Թ�� Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS), have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Apr. 16, 2020—Dario Englot, M.D., surgical director of epilepsy at 91�Թ�� Medical Center and Catie Chang, Ph.D., assistant professor at 91�Թ�� School of Engineering are embarking on a novel imaging study to characterize seizure-induced differences in functional brain connectivity of patients with epilepsy, with special attention on mTLE.

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�Թ�� engineers and doctors, to 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.

COVID-19 Collaboration: Among shortage, Vandy engineers and VUMC doctors build ventilators of their own

Mar. 30, 2020—From WKRN: NASHVILLE, Tenn.(WKRN) – It’s a COVID-19 collaboration. 91�Թ�� engineers and 91�Թ�� Medical Center doctors have teamed up to tackle the looming ventilator shortage by way of an open-source ventilator design of their own.

Mar. 30, 2020—From Fox 17: NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A team at 91�Թ�� and 91�Թ�� Medical Center (VUMC) have taken on the challenge of a potential ventilator shortage by building one out of materials easily sourced.

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�Թ�� and 91�Թ�� 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�Թ�� School of Engineering involved in the coronavirus crisis for the wheels to start turning for Katy Riojas and her peers. “91�Թ�� is very unique in that engineering and clinicians or surgery is very intertwined and there’s a lot of...

VISE Spring Seminar – Jose´ A. Diaz, MD

Jan. 6, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jose´ 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: José A. Diaz, MD, FAHA is a...

Jan. 6, 2020—91�Թ�� Medical Center (VUMC) has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to map — in unprecedented detail — the biology of Crohn’s disease.

Dec. 2, 2019—91�Թ�� Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology Kim Sandler, MD, and 91�Թ�� Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the 91�Թ�� Thoracic Working Group for their project, “Utilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.”

VISE Fall Seminar – Dan Brown, MD and Brett Byram, PhD

Sep. 6, 2019—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Daniel B. Brown, MD Director of Interventional Oncology, 91�Թ�� Medical Center and Brett Byram, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, 91�Թ�� Date: Thursday, September 26 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Personalizing Interventional Oncology Options for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Abstract: Responses...

VISE Fall Seminar – Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD

Aug. 29, 2019—VISE Fall seminar to be led by Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD Department of Neurological Surgery, 91�Թ�� Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 Time: 12:25pm start, 12:15pm Lunch Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Predictive Modeling of Brain Tumor Laser Thermal Ablations Abstract: Laser interstitial thermal...

VISE affiliates secure $3 million NIH grant to study sustained attention in epilepsy patients

Aug. 28, 2019—A team led by a neurosurgeon-scientist and an engineering professor who specializes in techniques for analyzing functional neuroimaging data has received a $3 million basic research grant (R01) from the NIH to study disturbances in brain networks related to attention lapses and cognitive deficits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Dr. Dario Englot and...

Aug. 14, 2019—A Feasibility Study on Central Airway Obstruction Removal

Apr. 15, 2019—The 91�Թ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy.

Mar. 20, 2019— Intended to expand collaborations among engineering professors, physicians and students in engineering and medicine, The 91�Թ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) Laboratory is a 7,000 sf translational research center and workshop surrounding a transparent mock-operating room, where new medical technologies are studied and developed.

Feb. 5, 2019—Every one in nine babies is born too early here in Tennessee. Now there’s a medical breakthrough, a device created in our own backyard, that 91�Թ�� doctors say could be a game changer.

Dec. 18, 2018—The 91�Թ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering celebrated its opening of dedicated space in Medical Center North Dec. 12 with a technology showcase of more than two dozen cross-disciplinary collaborations advancing healthcare techniques from the lab to patient.

Dec. 5, 2018—The 91�Թ�� Institute for Surgery and Engineering—dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaborations that advance discoveries from the laboratory to the patient—will celebrate its new physical space at 2323 Medical Center North with an open house and symposium Dec. 12.

VISE Fall Seminar – Seth Smith, PhD

Aug. 24, 2018—to be led by Seth Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Ophthalmology, Director of Human Imaging Core, VUIIS, 91�Թ�� Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, 12:00 p.m. lunch Title: Spinal Cord MRI: From...

Spring Seminar – Lori Jordan, MD

Feb. 23, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Director, Pediatric Stroke Program, 91�Թ�� Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: “Sickle Cell Disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Stroke” Abstract: Children and adults...

Oct. 16, 2017—Removing part of a kidney with minimally invasive robotic surgery rather than an entire kidney when operating for smaller tumors is often best for patients from a recovery and health standpoint, but many surgeons hesitate to do so because of the complexity of the robotic partial nephrectomy procedure. Investigators with the 91�Թ�� Institute for Surgery...

VISE Fall Seminar – Lola Chambless, MD

Sep. 8, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Lola Chambless, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery 91�Թ�� Medical Center Date: Thursday,September 21, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title: Minimally invasive brain surgery – a field in consolidation Abstract: The concept...

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