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January 22, 2018
Single Blood Test Screens for Eight Cancer Types
Researchers in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a single blood test that screens for eight common cancer types and helps identify the location of the cancer.
January 19, 2018
Bringing the textbook to life: High school students spend a day at Johns Hopkins BME
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted 16 high school students from the Park School of Baltimore to help fuel their passion for science and engineering.
January 18, 2018
Partnering with Industry for Better Education in Drug Discovery
Inez Lam and Natalia Majewska were the first two students selected to participate in the Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program and have recently begun their research projects.
January 4, 2018
23andMe for Trees
Johns Hopkins researchers are part of an ambitious plan to fully sequence the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes for the first time.
January 3, 2018
Students showcase design projects and compete in annual Shark Tank contest
The Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design held its fifth annual Fall Healthcare Innovation Showcase and Shark Tank where students presented their ongoing work to develop innovative solutions to unmet health care needs.
December 21, 2017
Changing Environments
Andrew Feinberg ’73, MD ’76, MPH ’81, the director of the Center for Epigenetics at Johns Hopkins, recently finished his first semester teaching at the Whiting School and he says “it’s been a fantastic adventure.”
December 20, 2017
Upstarts: For Heartburn…And More
Patients with chronic acid reflux and other esophageal issues run an increased risk of cancer. A fiber-optic endomicroscope developed from research done by Xingde Li is likely to significantly improve diagnosis and treatment.
A group of students stand together for a picture.
December 19, 2017
Two BME student teams receive O’Connor Entrepreneurship Funding
Founded by Johns Hopkins alum Ralph O’Connor and his wife, Becky, the O’Connor Fund program awards each team a $5,000 grant with the opportunity to earn $5,000 more by reaching certain milestones.
December 12, 2017
So Long, Trial and Error
Natalia Trayanova explains why computer simulations are key to the future for better health care.
November 30, 2017
BME graduate and team named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list
A four-person team of Johns Hopkins alumni behind the startup Healthify was named to the 2018 Forbes "30 Under 30" list in the health care category.
The image shows a computer model of heart cells.
November 28, 2017
Computer modeling offers insight into what causes sudden cardiac death
A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers constructed a powerful new computer model that replicates the biological activity within the heart that precedes sudden cardiac death.
November 16, 2017
Steven Salzberg among 2017 Highly Cited Researchers
Steven Salzberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named one of the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers according to Clarivate Analytics, which was previously part of Thomson Reuters.
Freshman trip to Six Flags
November 15, 2017
Students get a rush—and scientific data—during a day at Six Flags
At Johns Hopkins University, first-year biomedical engineering students recently headed to Six Flags America to measure how the acceleration of an amusement park ride can impact an individual's heart rate.
November 15, 2017
Hopkins researchers win $100K grant from Gates Foundation for life-saving baby monitoring device
The university’s NeMo team, short for Neonatal Monitoring, was named as one of 51 new Grand Challenges Explorations winners in an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
November 14, 2017
CBID partners with the Stevens Initiative on international virtual exchange program
The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design has been selected to work with the Stevens Initiative, based at the Aspen Institute. This program will create an engineering design and innovation cyber exchange program to bring students together through virtual, joint hackathons.
November 14, 2017
Society for Neuroscience awards Lindsley Prize to David Herzfeld
The Society for Neuroscience has awarded the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience to David Herzfeld, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
A group of students take a photo together.
November 4, 2017
Johns Hopkins undergrad team takes second place at Collegiate Inventors Competition
A Johns Hopkins student invention aimed at helping people breathe easier won the silver prize in the 2017 national Collegiate Inventors Competition. The second-place award was announced Friday afternoon after final judging at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.
November 2, 2017
Kavli NDI moves into its new space in Clark Hall
The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute hosted its grand opening launch party last Monday evening in its new space located on the third floor of Clark Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus.
November 1, 2017
Complete wheat: Scientists successfully piece together bread wheat genome
Nature reports that a team of six scientists—including three from Johns Hopkins University—has successfully mapped the genome of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, a task that researchers around the world have been trying to crack for more than a decade.
October 31, 2017
Johns Hopkins-led team aims to turn computer systems into digital detectives
A Johns Hopkins University-led international team of scientists—supported by an $11-million, five-year U.S. Department of Defense grant—wants to streamline such investigations by developing algorithms for extracting relevant details from multi-modal data.
October 30, 2017
How the brain encodes our sense of direction
The latest publication by Kathleen Cullen, professor of biomedical engineering, is featured in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience, a special focus issue devoted to spatial cognition.
October 24, 2017
Four BME graduate students named Siebel Scholars
Four graduate students in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering have been named Siebel Scholars, a prestigious award honoring nearly 100 of the top graduate students in business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science programs.
Michael Miller smiles for the camera.
October 11, 2017
Miller Opens 2017 BMES Annual Meeting with Vision for New BME Era
Michael I. Miller, director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, opened the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ on October 11 by unveiling a plan for a new era of biomedical science discovery to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Rene Vidal
October 10, 2017
Developing the next generation of blood tests
Rene Vidal is part of a research effort that is working to make the average blood test more convenient.
3-D printed heart models are shown.
October 9, 2017
3-D Printing Models of Human Organs
It was summer 2016 when a Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon began collaborating with a graduate student on a peculiar puzzle: Could they produce a three-dimensional model of a baby's heart?
October 9, 2017
BME alumnus inducted into Bakken Society
With 13 years of Johns Hopkins training, Patrick Helm joins a society honoring those who achieve the highest level of scientific accomplishment at Medtronic.
October 6, 2017
Undergrads kick off the semester with Design Sprint challenge
Students were challenged to design solutions to improve hand hygiene in high- and low-resource settings.
Sridevi Sarma
October 5, 2017
Sarma promoted to associate director of ICM
It’s been less than one month since biomedical engineering associate professor Sridevi Sarma was promoted to associate director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, and she’s already got big plans.
October 5, 2017
Johns Hopkins co-organizes first international meeting on brain health
UNOPS and Johns Hopkins co-organized an international conference with the Chinese Brain Tissue Library Cooperation Alliance and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Neurology Center.
Students demonstrate their devices outside.
October 4, 2017
Freshmen compete in annual foam core challenge
Moving a Ping-Pong ball three meters may sound like a simple task, but a group of Johns Hopkins freshmen biomedical engineering students learned first-hand that sometimes the simplest task can be the most difficult.

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