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Episode 25 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nidhi Jyotsana tells Alice Leach how our knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19. Nidhi’s paper “The Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Risk and Treatment” was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Nidhi was a Research Assistant Professor in… Read More

  VINSE is pleased to announce virtual tours are now available for our Analytical Lab and Cleanroom. Analytical Lab Tour Cleanroom Tour    … Read More

Congratulations to the winners at the VINSE 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session 1st Place – $500 Jenna Mosier, Biomedical Engineering Advisor: Cynthia Reinhart-King “Modeling Mechanical and Metabolic Memory of Confined Cancer Cells Using Collagen Microtracks” 2nd Place – $250 Jeremy Espano, Interdisciplinary Materials Science Advisor: Janet Macdonald “Phase Control… Read More

One of the challenges of drug delivery systems is to optimize their targeting properties so therapeutic compounds used in smaller amounts reach only a specific area of the body and result in little or no side effects. The ability to engineer the content of extracellular vesicles and target these EVs… Read More

Episode 24 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chuchuan Hong tells Alice Leach about trapping and manipulating nanoscale objects. Chuchuan’s paper “Stand-off trapping and manipulation of sub-10 nm objects and biomolecules using opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers” was published in Nature Nanotechnology. Chuchuan is a 3rd student Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering… Read More

2020 NanoDay! Virtual Poster Session will be held Friday, October 23, 3PM-5PM CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS… Read More

Episode 23 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nicole Moehring tells Alice Leach about crystal structure, how we characterize it and its impact on the physical properties of a material. Nicole’s paper “In situ observations of thermally induced phase transformations in iron sulfide nanoparticles” was published in Materials Today… Read More

Please congratulate the following members of the VINSE faculty on recent accomplishments and promotions. FFC 2020 program. FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Joshua D. Caldwell named Flowers… Read More

CHEYENNE, WY / ACCESSWIRE / September 29, 2020 / EV Biologics, Inc. formerly Yulong Eco-Materials Limited (OTC PINK:YECO) today announced that it intends to utilize the advanced instrumentation and research staff at the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) and the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology (CSB) in the… Read More

The Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research is Vanderbilt’s most prestigious faculty honor for achievement in research. This award honors a faculty member who has garnered significant critical recognition on a national or global scale. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of $10,000 and an engraved pewter julep… Read More