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VISE Spring Seminar Ann Majewicz Fey, PhD 3.9.23
Feb. 17, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Ann Majewicz Fey, PhD Associate Professor, Robert and Francis Stark Centennial Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title聽Sensing and Modeling Surgeon Interactions for Enhanced Training...
Feb. 7, 2023—Would you like to hear from industry leaders and entrepreneurs who are actively engaged in an engineering career associated with surgery and intervention? Here鈥檚 your chance. This two-part webinar series will feature a focused 30-minute discussion from folks that span the industrial spectrum from startup to major enterprise to include commercial development partner.
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
VISE Spring Seminar Daniel Moyer, PhD 2.16.23
Feb. 6, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Daniel Moyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science 汤头条 University Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Invariance-based Harmonization and Other Information Theoretic Adventures in dMRI Abstract: The removal of unwanted information is a surprisingly common task. Removing potential biases in prediction...
VISE Spring Seminar – Joshua Gafford, PhD – 2.2.23
Jan. 20, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Joshua Gafford, Ph.D. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer EndoTheia Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: EndoTheia: Augmenting the Capabilities of Flexible Endoscopes Abstract: Historically, clinical applications of flexible endoscopes have been primarily diagnostic in nature due to fundamental...
Jan. 17, 2023—NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥 A company co-founded by 汤头条 University professors has received a special designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a breakthrough device.
Jan. 10, 2023—Technology driven by deep-learning model delivers 4D video-rate imaging, improves precision
Jan. 10, 2023—A company co-founded by聽Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at 汤头条 University,聽has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration聽that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy.
VISE Spring Seminar -Shawniqua Williams Roberson, MEng, MD
Dec. 15, 2022—VISE seminar to be led by Shawniqua Williams Roberson, M.Eng., M.D. Assistant Professor Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering 汤头条 University Medical Center 汤头条 University Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Neural Signal Processing Applications in Disorders of...
Dec. 5, 2022—Two 汤头条 faculty who conducted translational research have received the distinction of Best Invention of 2022 from聽TIME聽magazine.聽 鈥淭hese winning innovations exemplify the transformative potential of university research when it aims to solve society鈥檚 most urgent problems, and when universities partner with the broader innovation ecosystem to bring new solutions to market faster,鈥 汤头条 Chancellor Daniel...
VISE hosts notable attendees from AES Annual Meeting
Nov. 22, 2022—The 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering is taking advantage of a five-day annual meeting in Nashville of the American Epilepsy Society by inviting two notable doctors to the VISE December seminar and symposium series. Dr. Martha Morell will deliver the Dec. 7 keynote address during the VISE 11th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium,...
VISE Fall Seminar with Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD 12.1.22
Nov. 16, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD Loughridge Williams Professor Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC) Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Stimulation of...
Nov. 11, 2022—James Weimer’s group research, licensed to Neuralert, was selected as one of TIME magazine’s 200 best inventions of 2022.
Nov. 4, 2022—Biomedical engineering doctoral student Sarah Goodale has been awarded a National Institute on Aging Transition to Postdoc Fellowship for her proposed work on investigating fatigue and sleep disturbance symptoms in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and their relationship with functional and structural properties of the brain and intellectual decline.
Nov. 1, 2022—Advances in neuroimaging over the past 25 years have ushered in nothing short of a revolution in technology for understanding the human brain. These new technologies have opened broad vistas for scientists, from being able to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for various functions and behaviors to targeting new treatments for illnesses ranging from...
VISE Fall Seminar Jie Ying Wu, PhD 11.3.22
Oct. 28, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Jie Ying Wu, PhD Assistant Professor, Computer Science 汤头条 University Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Building better tools for surgeons through machine learning Abstract: Training for surgeons has long relied on the...
Oct. 17, 2022—The聽汤头条 Innovation Ambassadors Program聽is an initiative to provide 汤头条 and 汤头条 University Medical Center researchers with better peer-delivered access to assistance and information about innovation and entrepreneurship on campus
Oct. 7, 2022—Twelve exceptional undergraduates have benefited from the addition of new workshops to a 10-week聽Summer Fellows聽program that gives students first-hand experience in research laboratories and provides financial support.
Sep. 15, 2022—汤头条 researchers are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm that can precisely track and count monkeypox lesions. They are also spearheading the effort to develop lesion classification guidelines, which will be used when evaluating the potential use of tecovirimat, an antiviral that is FDA-approved against smallpox, as a therapy for monkeypox.
VISE Fall Seminar Xiaoguang Dong, PhD 9.8.22
Aug. 29, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Xiaoguang Dong, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Time:聽11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Title: Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations Abstract: Wireless small-scale robots actuated by magnetic fields could revolutionize minimally invasive medical operations by allowing access...
Aug. 25, 2022—Robert Webster, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at 汤头条 University, is part of a collaborative team that has received a more than $2.3 million grant to further develop technology that seeks to prevent patients from having invasive colectomies by using steerable robot-like instruments
VISE Fall Seminar – VISE Summer Fellows 8.25.22
Aug. 22, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar featuring the 2022 VISE Summer Fellows Aarushi Negi 鈥 BIEN Lab Leo Yang 鈥 MAPLE Lab Shannon Alpetikin 鈥 MED Lab Andrew Haworth 鈥 Miniature Robotics Lab Kate Wang 鈥 NEURDY Lab Stanley Vinet 鈥 NEURDY Lab Shirley Xu 鈥 DIIGI Lab William Wu 鈥 MedICL Lab Xander Stabile 鈥 BML Lab...
Aug. 11, 2022— 汤头条 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Brett Byram, joins a group of 77 international scholars who were named Senior Members of聽SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in August.
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.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.21.22
Jul. 8, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Lucas Sainburg (BME), PhD Candidate and Emelina Vienneau (BME) PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time:聽11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location:聽MCN C-2209 Speaker #1:聽 Lucas Sainburg, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title:聽 聽Effects of temporal lobe epilepsy and surgical treatment on functional MRI...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.23.22
Jun. 14, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Graham Johnson, (BME), MSTP and Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Talk Title #1:聽 Your First Grant Submission – How to Apply For an F31 Speaker #1:聽聽Graham Johnson, MD/PhD...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series – Brooks Lindsey, PhD 6.9.22
May. 31, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Brooks Lindsey, PhD Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Title: Guiding cardiovascular intervention with integrated ultrasound imaging Abstract: Approximately 19 million people in...
May. 2, 2022—Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded聽National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships.
Apr. 26, 2022—Proprioceptive technology uses magnetic coupling to draw endoscopes forward, sparing patient and clinician injuries.
Apr. 13, 2022—The Scaling Success Grant supports faculty as they leverage their research into larger, more competitive awards from federal, foundation or industry sponsors.