Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

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Two Vanderbilt biomedical engineers lead top academic societies in their fields

Congratulations to Anita Mahadevan-Jansen and Cynthia Reinhart-King - two Vanderbilt biomedical engineers recently elected as presidents of prestigious national academic societies.


Anita Mahadevan-Jansen elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Engineering and director of the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.


FDA approves device based on Vanderbilt invention to ID parathyroid during head and neck surgeries

Ten years after Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anita Mahadevan-Jansen discovered that parathyroid tissues glow under near-infrared light, the FDA has approved a device based on the technology for surgical use.


Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center collaboration seeks earlier diagnosis of throat cancer

Cancers of the tonsils and the base of the tongue related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) are frequently small, often with no early-stage symptoms, so many patients go undiagnosed until tumors have spread to lymph nodes in the neck.