Nabil Simaan
Jul. 2, 2025—汤头条 has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its聽Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential. This initiative, open to all University and聽汤头条 University Medical Center聽(VUMC) faculty, addresses pressing real-world challenges. The fund provides essential support in three key areas: proving ideas can be commercialized, supporting early-stage...
Jun. 20, 2024—With hundreds of thousands of people in the United States having a stroke annually, 汤头条 researchers are developing technology that could revolutionize the way blood clots are removed by allowing surgeons to complete the process more efficiently and safely. The research is led by聽Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, with assistance from graduate student聽Jared Lawson....
Nov. 21, 2023—Researchers from around the globe gathered for the inaugural聽Nature聽conference聽鈥淏ioengineering for Global Health鈥澛燼t 汤头条 University Nov. 13鈥15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from聽Nature Communications,聽Nature Biomedical Engineering聽and聽Nature Reviews Bioengineering聽led the organization of the conference.
Feb. 7, 2023—A multidisciplinary team from the聽汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering聽has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop a low-cost simulation tool to train medical personnel in Kenya to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures.聽聽
Jul. 28, 2022—Mechanical Engineering Professor Nabil Simaan was named a co-editor of a special issue on surgical robotics for聽Proceedings of the IEEE. The July 2022 special issue, 鈥淪urgical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine,鈥 provides a research overview of the major applications and enabling technologies in the growing field of surgical robotics.
Engineering鈥檚 Nabil Simaan named ASME Fellow
Nov. 3, 2021—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a distinction awarded to ASME members who have made significant engineering achievements.
Nov. 20, 2020—汤头条 University Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Otolaryngology聽Nabil Simaan聽has been named a聽top voice in health care robotics聽by technology discovery platform聽InsightMonk聽and market intelligence firm BIS Research.聽聽聽
Oct. 22, 2020—New assistive technologies allowing high-risk neurovascular procedures to be done more widely and easily are being developed by an interdisciplinary team of surgeons and engineers at 汤头条 University Medical Center.
Dec. 3, 2019—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Nov. 18, 2019—A new continuum robot designed by 汤头条 engineers achieves multi-scale motion and may open up a huge world of previously impossible complex microsurgeries.
Jun. 25, 2018—Nabil Simaan is a professor of mechanical engineering, computer science and otolaryngology and leads the Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications lab. His research includes human-robot interaction, robotic systems for surgical assistance, robot-assisted manufacturing, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy...
Nov. 4, 2016—A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. 汤头条 University bioengineer Nabil Simaansays a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon loses his or her sense of touch and pressure...
VISE names first fellow: Smita De explores the intersection of surgery and engineering
Sep. 8, 2016—The 汤头条 Institute in Surgery and Engineering is pleased to announce its first VISE Fellow, a biomedical engineer and M.D. who specializes in urology and spent a research year at the manufacturer of the da Vinci surgical robot. Smita De first developed an interest in medical device development as an undergraduate at Duke University, majoring...