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September 16, 2024

BME Design Team’s innovation aims to improve patient outcomes after peripheral nerve damage

The innovation is a set of electrodes designed to work without having to move or lift the nerve during evaluation, promising to reduce patient injury and inaccurate readings.

September 11, 2024

New tool blends classic math and AI to tackle complex challenges

Learned Proximal Networks offer reliable solutions for tasks like image restoration, reconstruction of medical scans, and other estimation problems.

September 10, 2024

News Brief: Hopkins BME researchers featured in major media outlets

Hopkins BME researchers were recently featured in several major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and...

September 10, 2024

JHU-led internship program opens doors for students with hearing loss

NIDCD-funded program aims to engage and empower students with hearing loss by giving them summer internships in hearing sciences labs.

September 3, 2024

News Brief: Hopkins BME PhD student Mary Omotoso inducted into Bouchet Society

Mary Omotoso, a biomedical engineering PhD student, was a 2024 inductee into the university’s chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

August 28, 2024

News Brief: Kim Lab featured in ‘Scientific American’ article

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers were featured in an Aug. 20 Scientific American article about animal testing alternatives.

August 22, 2024

Durr among researchers to receive ARPA-H funding as part of Biden’s ‘Cancer Moonshot’

Durr will partner with Dartmouth researchers to improve robotic cancer surgeries by visualizing critical structures that are often unintentionally injured. His laboratory will develop a novel laparoscope that can image fluorescence signals in three dimensions. His co-investigator, Ahmed Ghazi at the School of Medicine, will create anatomically realistic phantoms needed for testing that system.

August 21, 2024

BME students give back through Baltimore internships

This summer, biomedical engineering students ventured into the Baltimore community, working at internships that allowed them to apply their academic classroom knowledge while making meaningful contributions to local organizations ranging from a boxing club to a medical device company.

August 20, 2024

VectorCam: Fighting malaria one image at a time

Hopkins biomedical engineers pioneer the development of VectorCam, a device that lets someone with minimal training identify mosquito species in a matter of seconds.

August 16, 2024

Hopkins BME PhD student named 2024 Quad Fellow

Benjamin Biggs is a recipient of the highly competitive Quad Fellowship, an award for exceptional master's and doctoral students to study STEM in the United States.

News Brief: Kathleen Cullen’s expertise on balance featured in The Washington Post

For American gymnast “Simone Biles perfecting something on the beam or on the mat, any sort of in-the-moment correction would be done with vestibular and proprioceptive feedback,” Cullen said in the article. “Everything else, including vision, is just too slow.”

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Constanza Miranda wins DELTA Award

Their proposal focuses on improving undergraduate students’ self-regulation and task management skills that may have been lost due to distance-learning challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, and weaker study habits built in early education for some students.

Fatal opioid overdoses lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year, study finds

New study sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths during the COVID pandemic, including sharply rising totals among young minorities.

News Brief: Sarma, Beer research featured in JHU Engineering Magazine

Research projects from Sri Sarma and Michael Beer are featured in the Spring 2024 JHU Engineering's Magazine, in an article titled "Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Medicine."

Natalia Trayanova & Rama Chellapa

In AI we trust?

Natalia Trayanova and Rama Chellapa discuss timely issues that academic researchers are grappling with—Can and should AI be regulated? How have rapid AI advances changed teaching?

AdiCleanse: Enhanced harvesting of autologous fat tissue for structural fat grafting

To make fat grafting procedures more successful, undergraduate Design Team AdiCleanse has developed a novel system for standardizing the production of high-quality fat for reinjection.

AI could change the way we measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients

An undergraduate biomedical engineering design project yields a non-invasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure.

Alumni Spotlight: Peter Shen

Hear from BME alum Peter Shen ’99 about his path to a career in health care technology at Siemens Healthineers.

News Brief: Alexis Battle and Rama Chellappa named co-directors of DSAI

Effective July 1, Alexis Battle and Rama Chellappa will serve as interim co-directors of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute.

New study reveals how brain changes when you learn a sound

The study offers insight into how the brain’s auditory cortex processes sound-related learning, advancing our understanding of how we process acoustic information.

13 from Hopkins BME among those selected to receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

The Discovery Awards are intended to spark new interactions among investigators across the university rather than to support established projects. Teams can apply for up to $100,000 to explore a new area of collaborative work with special emphasis on preparing for an externally funded large-scale grant or cooperative agreement.

Three from Hopkins BME earn Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

Each honoree will each receive a $75,000 grant to support their work over the next year. They also will have the opportunity to participate in mentoring sessions and events designed to connect them with colleagues at similar stages in their careers.

Hopkins biomedical engineers among record number of JHU Fulbright Recipients

Winners of the Fulbright Study/Research Award design their own research or academic course of study in a specific country. The program aims to facilitate cultural exchange and promote mutual understanding by supporting study or research abroad.

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Hitting the target for successful heart ablation

In a breakthrough for guiding the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common form of heart arrhythmia affecting millions, Johns Hopkins researchers have for the first time developed digital twins of patients’ hearts that allow physicians to more precisely identify optimal targets for ablation — a procedure during which small patches of tissue causing the faulty rhythm are burned away.

A woman is wearing a lab coat and looking into a microscope.

Johns Hopkins BME graduate programs again ranked No. 1 by ‘U.S. News’

The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering graduate programs have earned the No.1 ranking from U.S. News & World Report, marking more than 30 consecutive years at the top spot, according to the new 2024 rankings released today.

Three Hopkins BME affiliates awarded NSF Fellowships

This program recognizes outstanding graduate student researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, providing approximately 2,000 awardees with three years of financial support.

An artist’s illustration of the artificial lymph node Credit: Jennifer Fairman; used with permission from Advanced Materials

‘Artificial lymph node’ used to treat cancer in mice

Johns Hopkins scientists have developed an artificial lymph node, which is implanted under the skin and designed to act like a learning hub and stimulator to teach immune system T-cells to recognize and kill cancer cells.

Biomedical engineering design teams win big at HopStart 2024

Five undergraduate and two graduate teams from the biomedical engineering department walked away with prizes, including in the competition’s main categories: Medical Technology and Life Sciences I and II. First-place teams received $5,000, second-place teams won $3,000, and third-place teams won $1,000.

Design Day 2024 Roundup

On May 1, The Whiting School of Engineering held its annual Design Day to showcase the innovative design projects conceived, designed, and built by students during the academic year. The Department of Biomedical Engineering was represented by over 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from six design courses, including the undergraduate Design Team program, CBID master’s program, Precision Care Medicine, and Biomedical Data Design.

News Brief: Jamie Spangler earns Melanoma Research Alliance Pilot Award

Jamie Spangler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has earned a Melanoma Research Alliance Pilot Award for her work titled "Immunotherapeutic cytokine/antibody fusion protein to treat acral melanoma."

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