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September 27, 2017

Johns Hopkins undergrads among finalists in annual Collegiate Inventors Competition

The AssistENT team, formed by biomedical engineering majors during the 2016-17 school year, is one of six undergraduate finalists that will compete for top honors and prizes worth up to $10,000 during the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.

September 27, 2017

Salzberg and Timp among research collaboration to sequence the Redwood genome

Steven Salzberg and Winston Timp are among the researchers from Johns Hopkins collaborating with the University of California, Davis, and the Save the Redwoods League in an ambitious plan to fully sequence the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes for the first time.

Natalia Trayanova smiles at the camera.

September 21, 2017

Natalia Trayanova elected as a Fellow of IAMBE

The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering has elected Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as a Fellow of IAMBE.

September 21, 2017

Sridevi Sarma receives L’Oréal’s Changing the Face of STEM mentoring grant

Sridevi Sarma, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is one of 10 recipients of the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Program’s Changing the Face of STEM mentoring grants.

September 7, 2017

How does our brain function when we gamble?

Sridevi Sarma and her team conducted an experiment that let them peek into subjects' brains as they gambled.

September 5, 2017

CBID students spend the summer with clinicians around the world

Every summer, students from the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design travel to some of the world’s most underserved communities and work side by side with primary care providers. They assess patient and provider needs, and design the next generation of medical devices.

A male student demonstrates the device in the Design Studio.

September 1, 2017

Undergrads bring home three awards from NIH DEBUT Challenge

Undergraduate design teams in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design won three awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge.

August 25, 2017

Hopkins entrepreneurs, alums land on Baltimore ’40 Under 40′ list

Three from Hopkins BME just landed on the '40 Under 40' list published by the Baltimore Business Journal.

August 10, 2017

Mapping the Brain, Neuron by Neuron

Researchers in the Center for Imaging Science have taken an early step towards mapping how all animal brains work.

CBID students travel to Brazil, China, India, and Uganda

Follow our CBID master's students this summer as they travel to remote regions of the globe to study health care delivery in foreign environments.

Lina Reiss sits in the lab wearing a white coat.

Sounds of Progress

Lina Reiss’ research could one day help her hear voices better amid background noise. Reiss, PhD ’05, was believed to...

Proscia is Teaching Computers to Beat Cancer

For 150 years, pathologists have used glass slides and microscopes to analyze tissue samples, understand cancer and determine the best course of treatments. One Baltimore startup, however, is ushering this process and the whole field of pathology into an era of computational pathology.

NIH Funds JHU Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Computational Medicine

The Institute for Computational Medicine has received federal funding for its Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Computational Medicine, which will support trainees from the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics.

Natalia Trayanova addresses the crowd during her TEDx talk.

Natalia Trayanova gives TEDx talk at Johns Hopkins

Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of biomedical engineering, recently gave a TEDx talk at Johns Hopkins discussing her lab’s efforts to develop personalized virtual hearts.

Learning to Think Like a Clinician and Function Like a Startup

Medical student David Gullotti recently finished his master's degree with CBID. Take a look at his year-long journey that took him from the clinic, to India, to the lab, and back again.

Inez Lam selected for new Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program

Last year, Johns Hopkins University and MedImmune announced their collaboration on a unique initiative to prepare students for a career in the biopharma industry. The first two PhD candidates have been selected.

Three from BME receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

Three faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering have been selected to receive support this year from the Johns Hopkins University’s Discovery Awards program.

Defining the ‘Gold Standard’

A team of Johns Hopkins computational scientists and cancer experts devised its own bioinformatics software to evaluate how well current strategies identify cancer-promoting mutations and distinguish them from benign mutations in cancer cells.

Michael Miller named new director of Department of Biomedical Engineering

Michael Miller, PhD, has been selected as the next director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective July 1.

Nitish Thakor receives EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award

Nitish Thakor, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Academic Career Achievement Award.

Using T-Cells to encourage tissue regeneration

Most people know immune cells as the first responders to trauma—killing bacteria, fungi, viruses and other invaders—but there is a hidden side, as well. Immune cells also repair the body. They are both killers and healers.

Kavli partners with NSF to host international conference

The Johns Hopkins Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute is partnering with the National Science Foundation to host a conference for researchers from universities and organizations across the globe.

A group of young students work in the Design Studio with Elizabeth Logsdon.

ICM, BME, and MechE host Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys

ICM and BME welcomed 23 seventh graders from the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys for a day of STEM-related activities, providing access to ideas on engineering and social innovation.

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CBID designs automated mosquito trap to track Zika

It all started at a hackathon. A group of Johns Hopkins students, postdocs, and faculty members gathered one weekend in April 2016 to develop a solution to the recent spread of the Zika virus. After hitting a few dead ends, the VectorWEB team hit upon an idea to create an automated trap that would count and identify mosquitoes, record the data, and send it to the Cloud where it could be mapped and distributed to health officials.

Reversing the Loss of Sight

A novel peptide and drug delivery system developed by a trio of Johns Hopkins researchers is closer to improving vision care for millions of people who suffer from degenerative retinal diseases.

Jamie Spangler joins BME faculty

Jamie Spangler, who earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering with a concentration in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins in 2006, will serve as assistant professor with joint appointments in those departments beginning July 1, 2017.

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Learning the science behind imaging devices

Johns Hopkins students in the upper-level Imaging Instrumentation course showed off their year-end projects that ranged from a system to replicate an endoscopic procedure to a method of measuring blood flow in the body.

BME alumnus launches startup to detect acute kidney injury

For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, kidney injury may be a far thought from their minds. For Aaron Chang ’15, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design within the Department of Biomedical Engineering, that thought has guided him in forming his startup company, Renalert.

Winston Timp awarded $2 million grant from NHGRI

Winston Timp, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, has been awarded a $2 million grant as part of the “Novel Nucleic Acid Sequencing Technology Development” project funded through the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Ratnanather honored for promoting diversity in STEM

Tilak Ratnanather, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, received an honorable mention and a prize of $10,000 for the Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity.

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