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VISE affiliate Daiwei Lu receives grant from National Institutes of Health to create models that improve treatment of kidney stones
Nov. 24, 2025—Daiwei Lu, a third-year Ph.D. student in computer science at Vanderbilt, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study that aims to create computer vision and machine learning models to improve endoscopic treatment of kidney stones.
VISE Fall Seminar with James Duncan, PhD
Oct. 6, 2025—VISE welcomes James Duncan, PhD, to our Fall Seminar Series. James S. Duncan, PhD Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Statistics & Data Science Yale University Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025 Location: SVC 5326 Time: 11:45 am for lunch,12:00 start Title: Neuroimage Analysis in Autism: from Model-Based Estimation...
VISE affiliate Xiaoguang Dong leads development of novel robotic valve to address acid reflux, other organ system disorders
Sep. 29, 2025—A team of researchers led by Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University, have developed a magnetic robotic valve to provide minimally invasive intervention for gastroesophageal reflux disease and possibly other organ system disorders
VISE Fall Seminar with Angela Crudele, MD 10.2.25
Sep. 25, 2025—VISE welcomes Angela Crudele, MD, to our Fall Seminar Series. Angela Crudele, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 Location: SVC 5326 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, 12:00 start Title: “The Thalamus in Epilepsy: A New Target in Neuromodulation” Abstract: Treatment of drug-resistant idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) remains...
VISE Fall Seminar with Jun Chen, PhD
Sep. 11, 2025—VISE welcomes our first guest speaker of the Fall 2025 Semester. Jun Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bioengineering UCLA Innovation Fellows UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Date: Thursday, September 11 Location: SVC 5326 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, 12:00 start Title: Discovering Magnetoelasticity in Soft Matter for Bioelectronics Abstract: ...
VISE affiliates recieve grant to support development of head-mounted augmented reality system to guide tumor resection
Aug. 27, 2025—In a collaboration between Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, investigators have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a head-mounted augmented reality system that can guide surgeons in ensuring complete tumor removal in head and neck cancer surgery and potentially reduce the recurrence...
Two VISE affiliates awarded Innovation Catalyst Fund
Jul. 2, 2025—Vanderbilt has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential. This initiative, open to all University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) faculty, addresses pressing real-world challenges. The fund provides essential support in three key areas: proving ideas can be commercialized, supporting early-stage...
VISE affiliate Yayun Du aims to improve detection of sleep disorders with AI-enhanced wearable sleep monitoring device
Jun. 27, 2025—We spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep, yet sleep disorders often go undiagnosed, despite their strong links to cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and depression. A next-generation wearable device developed by researchers could change that. Yayun Du, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University, is the lead author of a pioneering study, “A...
VISE Fall Seminar with Victoria Morgan, PhD
Sep. 19, 2024—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Victoria Morgan, PhD Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Biomedical Engineering Neurology and Neurological Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 11:45 for lunch; noon start Title: MRI network neuroplasticity in focal epilepsy: biomarkers and beyond Abstract: Patients...
VISE Seminer with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS
Aug. 28, 2024—Join us for our next VISE Fall Seminar with Garrett Coyan, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, talk starts at noon Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Bioinspired Heart Valve Design: A Tale of Medical Device Development and...
Robotic System Aims to Democratize Colonoscopy
Apr. 25, 2024—In the second installment of Discoveries in Medicine’s two-part interview with Keith L. Obstein, M.D., co-developer of a robotic colonoscopy system, he maps the path to the marketplace.
VISE Spring Seminar with Nicholas Kavoussi, MD 3.28.24
Mar. 25, 2024—VISE seminar to be led by Nicholas Kavoussi, MD Assistant Professor of Urology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery Abstract: Ureteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed...
VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness
Aug. 1, 2023—A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). “Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and...
Engineering doctoral students experience paradigm-shifting clinical training in surgery and intervention
Aug. 27, 2021—The results are in: Five cohorts of Vanderbilt engineering doctoral students have experienced ‘paradigm-shifting training’ in surgery and intervention.
Custom, virtual world highlights annual VISE symposium
Jan. 6, 2021—For the last eight years, on the second Wednesday in December, poster boards were set up at the crack of dawn in the lobby of Light Hall. Students, postdocs and faculty members would trickle in a few hours later to hang the poster themselves. By afternoon, the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Annual Surgery,...
VISE Spring Seminar – Steven Hetts, MD
Feb. 8, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Steven Hetts, MD Professor of Radiology, Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, University of California, San Fransisco Date: February 28, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: ChemoFilter and MARC: A Tale of Two Translational...
VISE Summer Seminar: Kenneth B. Bader, PhD
Jul. 24, 2018—VISE Seminar to be led by Kenneth B. Bader, Ph.D. Department of Radiology and the Committee on Medical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Date: Thursday, July 31, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, 12:00 p.m. lunch Title: Passive Cavitation Imaging for Monitoring Histotripsy-Enhanced Thrombolysis Abstract:...
Past Symposia
May. 1, 2017—Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 , 2022 13th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium View Poster Abstracts View Full Digital Program 2024 Keynote Speaker Clare Tempany Ferenc A. Jolesz MD Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School Vice Chair of Radiology Research and Medical Director of...
VISE Seminar: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology
Jan. 9, 2017—Title: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology Dual Speaker Format: Albert Attia, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, VUMC and Jared A. Weis, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Patients with intracranial metastasis treated...