The Faith-Fueled Brain Scanner

Biomedical engineer Audrey Bowden shines a light on her development of a headband that can measure brain activity through light with applications for mental health diagnoses and shares how her faith motivates her research.

My science and faith are another way of translating between the physical and nonphysical world and bringing those two concepts together.
Audrey Bowden
Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow

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Audrey Bowden

Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow

Raised in Nashville, Audrey is a biomedical engineer working in biomedical optics, microfluidics and point-of-care diagnostics. She is focused on development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing technologies for rural and global health applications in addition to light-based tools that can be used to provide early detection, diagnosis and therapy for disease. She has won the Air Force Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, the Hellman Faculty Scholars Award and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award.

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The Bowden Lab

Headband device suitable for use at home with young ADHD patients

Biomedical engineering professor helps draw a road map for academia to achieve more diversified hiring

Vanderbilt biomedical researcher organizes inaugural ‘Nature’ conference on bioengineering for global health, Nov. 13–15

Audrey Bowden receives NIH funding to develop point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns

Engineering professor Bowden receives Lewis Latimer Fellowship for Black innovators

Get to know Vanderbilt’s residential faculty: Audrey Bowden

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