Lab News

The abstract "Pose estimation for robot controlled magnetic endoscope teleoperation" by C.Bell, K.Obstein, and P.Valdastri has been accepted for poster session at Digestive Disease Week 2013.

Feb. 19, 2013—

Welcome to our new website!!!

Jan. 21, 2013—Our new website has been launched. Our site needed to have an elegant look, a place for better describing our research, lab news and our mission– and be easy to maintain by all the members of the lab.

RESEARCH @VUSE: Team led by Pietro Valdastri awarded a $1 million NSF grant to create new tools to help speed up the development of miniature medical capsule robots.

Jan. 11, 2013—Read the Engineering School press release….

Erdem Erdemir officially starts as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the STORM Lab. Welcome Dr. Erdemir!!!

Dec. 20, 2012—

Massimiliano Simi successfully defended his PhD Thesis in Biomedical Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Congratulations Dr. Simi!!!

Dec. 13, 2012—

Lorenza Angelini and Giulia Bassani successfully defended their Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering at University of Pisa. Congratulations Lorenza and Giulia!!!

Dec. 4, 2012—

Kick-Off of the NSF project "CPS: Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices" under the direction of Pietro Valdastri, Akos Ledeczi, Peter Volgyesi, Robert J. Webster III.

Dec. 1, 2012—

Invited talk at a Dragan Foundation Symposium in Rome with pioneers in the field of capsule endoscopy

Nov. 29, 2012—

The paper "Real-time pose detection for medical magnetic devices" by C. Di Natali, G. Bassani, M. Beccani and P. Valdastri has been accepted for Intermag 2013.

Sep. 26, 2012—

Santina Battaglia successfully defended her Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering at University of Pisa. Congratulations Sissi!!!

Sep. 25, 2012—

We get the official communication that the proposal "CPS: Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices" will be funded by NSF.

Sep. 7, 2012—

Christian Di Natali and Marco Beccani pass their preliminary exam and now are officially heading towards their PhD. Congratulations!!!

Aug. 21, 2012—

Charreau S. Bell and Pietro Valdastri take part to the Engineering Ambassadors Network Workshop at Penn State University.

Aug. 16, 2012—

Charreau S. Bell and Trevor L. Bruns officially start as STORM Lab graduate students. Good Luck!!!

Aug. 6, 2012—

STORM Lab Italians featured on the Tennessean for an article about H-1B employment and transitioning to the USA.

Aug. 3, 2012—Read the Tennessean article.

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