Lab News
PI Webster Wins IEEE Career Award
Dr. Webster wins the IEEE RAS Early Career Award for "contributions which have had a major impact on the robotics and/or automation fields". He is the only US recipient this year. See announcement, and IEEE information on award.
Lab lunch at Hattie B's Hot Chicken
3rd Annual VISE Symposium
Several MED Lab members presented posters at the Vanderbilt Initiative for Surgery and Engineering's 3rd Annual Symposium and Poster Session. The event helps bring together engineers and clinicians from across the university and medical center.
Phil gets married!
Phil marries his bride Lori at Mint Springs Farm near Nashville. She is way out of his league, but Phil already knows that.
Phil presents lung robot at ViSE seminar
Phil and Dr. Eric Grogan presented at a joint ViSE seminar on challenges in thoracic surgery and a new lung robot aimed at addressing some of these issues.
Fundable Score on Epilepsy Proposal!
We have received a fundable score on our NIH proposal titled "Curing Epilepsy with a Needle"!
Lab BBQ at Phil's House
The MEDLab has a BBQ at Phil's house, with Hunter's family bringing a large smoker and pig up from Louisiana. The food was delicious!
Cerebral Hemorrhage Grant Awarded!
The MED Lab has received a $383,248 grant from NIH titled: "Debulking From Within: A Steerable Needle for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Aspiration".
IROS 2014 Best Application Paper Finalist
Jessica's paper is selected an IROS 2014 Best Application Paper Finalist! This makes 9 Best Paper/Presentation nominations (5 awards) for the lab in the past 6 years.
New Website
The MEDLab gets a new website, designed and built by Phil Swaney and Hunter Gilbert.
Jessica gets married!
Bob and Phil travel to Hannover, Germany to celebrate Jessica and Lüder's wedding. The ceremony and reception were a blast, and the scenery in Germany wasn't half bad either.
IEEE Senior Member
PI Webster is elevated to Senior Member standing in the IEEE.
Phil attends SEMDA conference with CTTC
Phil and three members of the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization (CTTC) attended the Southeastern Medical Device Association conference in Atlanta, GA. The conference was a success and a starting point for discussions with several medical device companies regarding Vanderbilt technologies available for licensing, including two technologies developed in the MEDLab!
NSF Fellowships for MED Lab students
4 MED Lab students win prestigious NSF Fellowships! The winners this year are Peter York, Dylan Losey, Andria Remirez, and Michael Siebold. This brings the MED Lab's total to 8 NSF Fellowships won in the past 5 years!
ICH project featured by Reuters
The ICH project has been featured by Reuters on their site! The link is availabe here, and the story has also been picked up by various other news outlets such as MSN, Gizmodo, and Discovery.
