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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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Institute for…

A collaboration between international and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ researchers is helping to update a tried-and-true medical technology for the 21st century. The development of an intelligent and autonomous Magnetic Flexible Endoscope holds the promise of making colonoscopies safer, less painful, more widely available and less expensive.  …

VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Sheila Russo, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Boston University Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title:  Toward Soft Robotic Systems for Advanced Endoscopic Procedures… Read More

 VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title:  Ultrasound-based Brain… Read More

New assistive technologies allowing high-risk neurovascular procedures to be done more widely and easily are being developed by an interdisciplinary team of surgeons and engineers at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center.

Karen Joos, MD and Yuankai Kenny Tao, PhD Researchers from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute at the National Institute of Health to identify surgical techniques that improve vision after macular hole repair. Shriji Patel, MD Yuankai Kenny… Read More

A team of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming, according to an article published on the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ School of Engineering website.

A team of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound… Read More

VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Eric Tang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Handheld Spectrally Encoded Coherence Tomography and Reflectometry (SECTR) for Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Imaging RIP #1 Description:… Read More

As hospital and health care staff across the country continue learning more about the transmission and spread of COVID-19, caregivers for coronavirus patients continue adapting to the changing needs and best practices for personal protective equipment (PPE). Now, a new collaborative project from clinicians at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center and…