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January 17, 2013
Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan awarded W. W. Smith Charitable Trust Grant
Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan has been awarded a $100,000 Heart Research Grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. Funds will be used to further Dr. Vadakkumpadan’s research on an alternative to clinical arrhythmia inducibility tests.
January 9, 2013
Stephany Tzeng receives SFB 2013 Outstanding Research Award
JHU BME graduate student, Stephany Tzeng, receives the 2013 Student Award for Outstanding Research for her research that finds polymeric nanoparticles may be a promising strategy in liver cancer treatment.
January 8, 2013
Benjamin Bejar Haro receives 2012 MICCAI Best Paper Award
JHU CIS and BME graduate student Benjamín Béjar, has been awarded the 2012 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Intervention Systems from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society.
January 7, 2013
BME undergraduate FastStitch team wins first prize
The 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition awards the Johns Hopkins team $12,500 for their work with the FastStitch device.
December 20, 2012
MII selects CBID projects for TEDCO Award
Two projects that emerged from the JHU BME Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) will receive almost $100,000 each to continue project development.
December 18, 2012
Dongwon Lee paper voted Top 10 of 2011
Dongwon Lee, a graduate student in the BME Ph.D. program, was recently honored by RECOMB for authoring one the top 10 influential papers of 2011 in the fields of systems biology and regulatory genomics.
Students gather for a group photo holding their awards.
December 12, 2012
Hyun Sung Park wins BMES 2012 Design & Research Award
BMES selects undergraduate award recipients on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.
December 11, 2012
Helena Zec selected for 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
BME graduate student in the JHU School of Medicine has been selected as one of the recipients of the Johns Hopkins 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in recognition for outstanding commitment to community service.
December 11, 2012
BME Ph.D. graduate founder of local non-profit
Sarah E. Hemminger, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering graduate, receives recognition and press coverage for her community contributions.
A group of students gather for a photo with their prototype.
December 4, 2012
BME undergraduate devices featured in local news
FastStitch, a disposable suturing device that guides placement of stitches, and HemoGlobe, a device that transforms a cellphone into a prick-free hemoglobin screening device are capturing media attention.
December 4, 2012
Dr. Jordan Green named 2012 Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer
Jordan J. Green, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute, JHU School of Medicine is honored by award from the Maryland Academy of Sciences and the Maryland Science Center.
December 4, 2012
Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan awarded AHA National Scientist Development Grant
The American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant was awarded to Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan of the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
A group of students gather for a photo outside.
November 29, 2012
BME undergraduates win at iGEM 2012 competition
Teams Johns Hopkins -- Software and Wetware, secured a win at iGEM 2012, a worldwide Synthetic Biology competition for undergrads.
November 5, 2012
Computational medicine begins to enhance the way doctors detect and treat disease
The report was written collaboratively by Johns Hopkins Institute of Computational Medicine director Raimond L. Winslow, along with three other Johns Hopkins professors affiliated with the Institute.
October 26, 2012
Johns Hopkins bioengineering Ph.D. students named 2013 Siebel Scholars
Five Johns Hopkins bioengineering graduate students were named to the 2013 class of Siebel Scholars. Each student will receive $35,000 for use in his or her final year of graduate studies.
October 10, 2012
Undergraduate FastStitch team wins again
FastStitch, a suturing device developed by BME undergraduates, was selected as the winner in the therapeutic devices category of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering DEBUT Challenge.
October 8, 2012
BME Postdoctoral Fellow receives two NIH SHIFT Awards to commercialize research
JHU BME postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD alumni Kelvin Liu has been awarded funds to commercialize technologies originally developed during his PhD and postdoctoral research under Prof. Tza-Huei Wang.
September 28, 2012
ICM & ICTR successfully conclude first Symposium on Computational Medicine
On Monday, September 24, over 50 members of the Hopkins research community met in the Chevy Chase Conference Center at the newly constructed Zayed Tower, Johns Hopkins Hospital to hold the first Symposium on Computational Medicine.
September 26, 2012
Dr. Rene Vidal receives IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize
Associate Professor René Vidal has been awarded the 2012 J.K. Aggarwal Prize for technical contributions of far-reaching significance and impact on the field of pattern recognition or its closely allied fields.
September 7, 2012
Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair
Jennifer Elisseeff, Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center, has been working...
September 5, 2012
Undergraduate HemoGlobe team wins $250,000 grant
HemoGlobe, a device developed by an undergraduate team from BME’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), was awarded a...
August 27, 2012
Li Lab biophotonics imaging technology published in PNAS
BME Professor Xingde Li, his group members YY Zhang, K Murari, JF Xi, and other collaborators at University of Texas...
July 27, 2012
Sridevi Sarma receives PECASE Award
Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering has been selected to receive the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) at the White House later this year.
July 19, 2012
BME PhD students win top prize at Yale Consulting Case Competition
Four BME PhD students were part of the winning team at the recent Yale Consulting Case Competition. Deborah Castillo, Jason...
July 18, 2012
Jordan Green selected to participate in NAE 2012 Symposium
Jordan Green, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering is among 78 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to participate in...
Kathleen McDowell
June 5, 2012
Kathleen McDowell awarded AHA pre-doctoral fellowship
Kathleen McDowell, a student working in the lab of Natalia Trayanova, has been awarded an American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship award.
May 23, 2012
Eileen Haase is Pond Award winner
May 11, 2012
Natalia Trayanova named inaugural Sachs Professor as BME celebrates 50 years
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 4 with a daylong symposium that included the installation of Natalia Trayanova as the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor.
May 9, 2012
Daniel Tward receives NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral award
Daniel Tward, a third-year CIS PhD student working with Drs. Michael Miller, Laurent Younes and Tilak Ratnanather has been awarded...
May 2, 2012
Jordan Green wins CMU Alumni Award

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