  {"id":11217,"date":"2025-05-07T08:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?page_id=11217"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:33:04","slug":"industry-affiliates-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/industry-affiliates-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Affiliates Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Program Overview<\/h6>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11235 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-650x650.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3-190x190.png 190w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/04\/02104154\/Industry-Affiliated-Partners-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VISE has established an Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) as a comprehensive community bu<span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">ilding effort to support collaborations for addressing today\u2019s most pressing challenges <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">in<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2rem\">\u00a0procedural medicine. More specifically, surgery and intervention are entering a transformative period requiring technologies to be data-enabling, efficient, and cost-effective, and support patient-specific tailored treatment approaches. Concurrently, personnel demands are also evolving with the goal of seeking a highly qualified and \u201cenabling\u201d workforce. The IAP offers industry partners ongoing engagement with the VISE community, providing access to a range of benefits including state-of-the-art research updates, opportunities to help shape educational programs, networking with affiliates and graduates, showcasing technologies to VISE members, and the possibility of supporting innovative technology development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong><em>Membership benefits<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #cfae70\">Standard Annual Membership:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Ideal for start-ups, updates on ongoing research, access to graduating talent pool, community acknowledgement, and board membership.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Opportunity for Industry Educational Advisory Board membership<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">VISE vignettes prospectus of program graduates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Website acknowledgement as VISE Industry Affiliate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Online live transmissions of VISE Symposium speaking event content<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #cfae70\">Select Annual Membership:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Includes <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Standard<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> benefits plus a wide array of annual Symposium access.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Standard +<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Annual Symposium invitation for attendance and private poster viewing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Symposium abstract prospectus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Symposium Demonstration Space<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Acknowledgement as a VISE Industry Affiliate at VISE Symposium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Acknowledgement as a VISE Industry Affiliate within VISE Seminar Series<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #cfae70\">Premier Annual Membership:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Includes <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Select<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> and adds premier day-long demonstration events to all engineering and clinical VISE affiliates, and project sponsorship opportunities with maintained IP.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Select +<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Annual day-long research demonstration event of one of your technologies in the VISE mock OR (in the heart of the medical center) with availability to VISE Affiliates**<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Opportunity for mentoring a Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention design project***<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span style=\"color: #cfae70\"><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Additional Giving Opportunities<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Naming opportunities for core facility labs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Research project seed funding programs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Physician-in-Residence clinical fellows program<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Student innovation scholarships<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Contact Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about partnering with us through our Industry Affiliates Program, contact:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11290 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-650x644.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-101x100.jpg 101w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-1536x1523.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-2048x2030.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2025\/05\/07081848\/Michael-Miga-circle-190x190.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/> <a href=\"mailto:michael.i.miga@vanderbilt.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Miga, PhD<\/a><br \/>\nDirector, ÌÀÍ·Ìõ Institute for Surgery and Engineering<br \/>\nChair, Department of Biomedical Engineering<br \/>\nHarvie Branscomb Professor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program Overview VISE has established an Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) as a comprehensive community building effort to support collaborations for addressing today\u2019s most pressing challenges in\u00a0procedural medicine. More specifically, surgery and intervention are entering a transformative period requiring technologies to be data-enabling, efficient, and cost-effective, and support patient-specific tailored treatment approaches. 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