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July 2026 Friends, One of my favorite parts of directing VALIANT is the conversations. Over the past year, I’ve spoken with faculty, students, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and industry partners from across Vanderbilt and beyond. No matter the discipline, many of those conversations eventually arrive at the same question:… Read More

Zhang, Yuling; Cao, Hui; Yu, Dongran; Feng, Wanqi; Cao, Shougen; Zhou, Yanbing; Lau, Ken S.; Li, Zequn. (2026). TIPE3 in cancer: A multifaceted regulator of tumorigenesis, therapeutic resistance, and clinical outcomes. Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 25. https://doi.org/10.1177/15330338261461720 TIPE3 is a protein that helps regulate important cell… Read More

Sirimanna, C.; Tachibana, Y.; Majumder, A.; Angerami, A.; Arora, R.; Bass, S. A.; Chen, Y.; Datta, R.; Du, L.; Ehlers, R.; Elfner, H.; Fries, R. J.; Gale, C.; He, Y.; Jacak, B. V.; Jacobs, P. M.; Jeon, S.; Ji, Y.; Jonas, F.; Kasper, L.; Kordell, M.; Kumar, A.;… Read More

Katz, Rain; Cvejkus, Ryan; Wang, Jiebiao; Thyagarajan, Bharat; Barinas-Mitchell, Emma; Carr, John Jeffrey; Terry, James G.; Nair, Sangeeta; Tang, Winnie Wan-Yee; Miller, Rachel G.; Miljkovic, Iva; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Kuipers, Allison L. (2026). Large-scale protein assay identifies novel protein biomarkers associated with arterial stiffness and vascular calcification measures. International… Read More

Ashwin, T. S.; Sanda, Nihar; Coursey, Austin; Gupta, Vaibhav; Biswas, Gautam. (2026). Retaining emotions, removing identity: Valence-arousal guided de-identification for educational applications. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 87–94. https://doi.org/10.1145/3748522.3780003 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being used to analyze students’ facial expressions to better understand… Read More

Dou, Yimeng; Li, Yin; Varghese, Tomy. (2026). Geometry aware neural radiance fields for freehand ultrasound reconstruction. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 12(4), 045004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/ae74d7 Creating accurate 3D ultrasound images from multiple 2D freehand ultrasound scans is challenging because slight errors in the position or orientation of the ultrasound probe can cause… Read More

Lu, Ming; Gore, John C.; Yan, Xinqiang. (2026). Revisiting inductively coupled wireless coils in MRI: Mitigating over-coupling with preamplifiers. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.70485 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) often uses inductively coupled coils—small receiver coils placed near the area being imaged—to improve image quality. However, when… Read More

Li, Hao; Jiang, Nan. (2026). DSR-Net: Decoder supervision and reconstruction for hybrid 3D medical segmentation. The Visual Computer, 42(9), 383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-026-04563-2 Hybrid convolutional neural network (CNN) and Transformer models have become popular for analyzing 3D medical images because they combine the strengths of both approaches: CNNs are effective at identifying local… Read More

Yang, Yisu; Lorenz, Anna; Sathe, Aditi; Schilling, Kurt G.; Gaynor, Leslie S.; Choi, Seo-Eun; Lee, Michael L.; Scollard, Phoebe; Trittschuh, Emily H.; Mukherjee, Shubhabrata; Mez, Jesse; Dumitrescu, Logan C.; Landman, Bennett A.; Crane, Paul K.; Cuccaro, Michael L.; Hohman, Timothy J.; Archer, Derek B. (2026). Genetically linked brain… Read More

Steitz, Alyssa; Daniel, Laura L.; Nepal, Puran; Dickson, Alyson L.; Zanussi, Jacy; Miller-Fleming, Tyne W.; Straub, Peter S.; Wei, Wei-Qi; Liu, Ge; Maizel, Jennifer; Cox, Nancy J.; Hung, Adriana M.; Feng, QiPing; Stein, C. Michael; Chung, Cecilia P. (2026). Association between genetically predicted expression of TPMT and azathioprine… Read More