News - Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

November 18, 2024

News Brief: Zwernemann receives 2023-2024 Distinguished EP Instructor Award

Instructors in the online and part-time programs at Johns Hopkins Engineering are notable for their skill in incorporating their expertise and real-world experience into their classes.

November 12, 2024

Artificial snail mucus could advance cancer treatments

An interdisciplinary undergraduate team is working to make synthetic snail mucus, which has potential applications in medicine and cosmetics.

November 11, 2024

News Brief: Rama Chellappa elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering

This honor is conferred to those "who have made outstanding contributions in the selected areas of engineering and technology, maintained a consistent professional relationship with India, and emerged as a global leader for their most distinguished accomplishments."

November 7, 2024

Adam Charles earns NSF CAREER award to study the brain’s complex architecture

Charles is receiving $718,681 over the next five years to further his work on developing a brain-wide framework for understanding cognition and behavior.

November 5, 2024

Hopkins BME student wins 2024 Career Impact Award

Established in 2021, the Career Impact Awards celebrate the unsung heroes within our community who have generously shared their time, expertise, and connections to support the professional and career growth of others.

A graphic shows the quantitative systems pharmacology based biomarker discovery

October 30, 2024

Computational tool developed to predict immunotherapy outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer

Using computational tools, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer could benefit from immunotherapy.

October 28, 2024

Scientists engineer ‘glowing’ gel to improve eye surgery

Innovation tackles long-standing challenge in cataract procedures by making surgical materials visible under blue light.

JHU students at Collegiate Inventors Competition

October 24, 2024

Johns Hopkins team takes runner-up in Collegiate Inventors Competition

Biomedical engineering students take home $5,000 prize for fetal surgery innovation

October 17, 2024

Hopkins joins Cancer AI Alliance

Johns Hopkins and Kimmel Cancer Center researchers collaborate on big data science.

October 10, 2024

Biomedical engineering startups present to investors at JHU Innovation Summit

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to have contributed to the vision of the Innovation Summit as well as being able to showcase startups like Kubanda Cryotherapy and Biolinco.

October 9, 2024

Student Spotlight: Heonjoon Lee

In this Q&A, learn more about how Heonjoon Lee, fifth year biomedical engineering PhD student, found his niche in biotechnology, his current research, and his life outside the lab.

Student teams pitch novel immunoengineering solutions to judges during Frameshift

October 4, 2024

JHU’s Translational ImmunoEngineering hub gets $6.4M renewal from NIH

The 6.4 million, five-year award will support the ongoing development of tools and methods for the advancement of immunoengineering.

October 2, 2024

Can AI improve how we handle obesity care?

Using a cutting-edge AI technique, Johns Hopkins researchers present a potential clinical tool to predict waist circumference and identify patients at risk for obesity complications.

October 1, 2024

News Brief: Hopkins team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition

The student team's invention aims to reduce risks in fetal surgeries.

September 30, 2024

Two Hopkins BME grad students named Siebel Scholars

Recipients receive a $35,000 award to support their final year of studies. Additionally, they are invited to attend annual conferences to discuss global issues alongside heads of state, scientists, and other experts seeking solutions to the world's most complex and pressing problems.

September 30, 2024

Student Spotlight: Chiad Onyeje

Chiad Onyeje is a first-year biomedical engineering PhD student and a Vivian Thomas Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. We caught up with Onyeje to learn about how his first semester is going, the impact of VTSI on his education, and his research interests and goals beyond graduation.

September 25, 2024

Journal selects Hopkins BME research for cover

Immunoengineering research by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers was recently featured on the cover of the journal JCI Insight.

September 24, 2024

Hopkins BME undergraduate program once again No. 1 in the nation

U.S. News and World Report has once again been named the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering’s undergraduate program as the best in the nation.

September 24, 2024

Low gravity in space travel found to disrupt normal rhythm in heart muscle cells

New research from Johns Hopkins find that heart tissues aboard the space station beat about half as strong as on Earth.

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.

August 1, 2024

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.”