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Robert Webster III launched his first company, Virtuoso Surgical, in April. He completed the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program for new tech companies in early August. Read More

Brett Byram, VISE affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, named one of the seven young faculty to watch. Read More

An engineering symposium dedicated to translational technology will host a national figure in that field as its keynote speaker, plus give visitors a first look at the devices coming out of Vanderbilt’s labs. Read More

The vice president has roughly two months left to continue leading the Cancer Moonshot initiative, an effort to significantly speed the pace of progress in cancer detection and treatment. It’s a personal mission for Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015. There’s no guarantee that… Read More

Speaker: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS President of North American Neuromodulation Society President Elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Professor of Neurosurgery Program Director Division Chief for EN2 Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery Vickie and Jack… Read More

A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. Vanderbilt University bioengineer Nabil Simaansays a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon loses his… Read More

Speaker: Fabien Maldonado, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, VUMC Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title:  Interventional Pulmonology: How the changing landscape of lung cancer provides unprecedented opportunities for translational and clinical research… Read More

Speaker: Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Being able to obtain an independent National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant award can… Read More

Kenny Tao was incredibly close to becoming a surgeon instead of a biomedical engineer. The only thing standing in the way of medical school: a renowned adviser who convinced him to take a different path. Fortunately for Vanderbilt, the new assistant professor of… Read More

POSTPONED Speaker: Alexander J. Langerman Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Speaker Bio: Dr.  Alexander Langerman, MD is a head and neck surgeon and researcher who studies the operating room. Read More