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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.

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 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 1, 2024

News Brief: Hopkins team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12 from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

A total of 12 undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.

OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma

Biomedical engineering student team aims to empower patients with a user-friendly, at-home tool

Parkinetics: Improved motion data collection of Parkinson’s patients in everyday life

Biomedical engineering team aims to help clinicians use motion data collection to inform medication adjustment

Johns Hopkins BME junior Jackson Morris receives Truman Scholarship

Junior Jackson Morris has been named a 2024 Truman Scholar, marking the first time in five years that a Johns Hopkins University student has received the prestigious scholarship.

Hopkins BME undergrad wins Fulbright Award to India

Vasu plans to develop a low-cost creatinine sensor to measure kidney function in patients at risk of kidney disease.

Hopkins BME undergrad Kyra Bowden awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Bowden aspires to use machine learning and image analysis to study disease and injury and optimize outcomes for orthopedics patients.

Erick Rocher in the lab

December 11, 2023

Improving medical care on many fronts

As a biomedical engineering major, Erick Rocher is immersing himself in wide-ranging research, from improving surgical outcomes and innovating training for robotic surgery to harnessing nanotechnology to deliver better cancer treatment.

December 11, 2023

Student Spotlight: Christine Wang

Growing up, Christine Wang ’24 had a deep fascination with space exploration and dreamed of being an astronaut. Her passion for all things space has since led her to Johns Hopkins, where she is studying biomedical engineering with the goal of integrating biomedical technologies with space science.

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November 2, 2023

Six from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

Six biomedical engineering undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to help fund their research projects over the coming year.

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October 27, 2023

Hopkins BME undergrads named runners-up in Collegiate Inventors’ Competition

A team of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate biomedical engineering students were named runners-up in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition.

September 27, 2023

A BME summer abroad in Uganda

Ishir Sharma, a third-year biomedical engineering student, spent two months this summer pursuing a clinical engineering-based healthcare service project in Uganda.

OnPoint Ventilation team

September 25, 2023

Student entrepreneurs among Collegiate Inventors Competition finalists

The team developed the Bronchosleeve, a novel catheter to improve a common chest surgery procedure.

DioTex team: Eric Simon, Ellie Zhang, and Feiyang Huang

September 5, 2023

Johns Hopkins team wins NIH prize for hemorrhage diagnostic tool

The team won for DioTeX, a fast, accessible, and accurate hemorrhagic diagnostic tool for combat care.

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A new device for fetal therapy

Biomedical engineering third-year student Selena Shirkin and her team are working to prevent membrane rupture during emergency in-utero surgery.

Sheila Iyer, Nathan Wang, and Erick Rocher

Three from Hopkins BME win Goldwater Scholarships

Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering students Sheila Iyer, Erick Rocher, and Nathan Wang have received Goldwater Scholarships, which recognize students for their research and achievements in the STEM fields.

Eight Hopkins BME affiliates receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to eight current students with ties to Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. They have been selected for their outstanding work in science, technology, engineering, or math fields.

Seven from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

Seven undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.

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February 14, 2023

Sense of identity

Two biomedical engineering students share how they were able to maintain, define, and redefine their sense of identity at Johns Hopkins.

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January 24, 2023

PneuTech wins $20,000 grant and advances to next stage of VentureWell E-Team Program

The Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering student innovator team, PneuTech, was recently selected to advance to the next stage of the VentureWell E-Team Program.

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December 12, 2022

BME student interns at NASA Johnson Space Center

Fourth-year biomedical engineering student Rene DeBrabander spent his fall semester interning with NASA Johnson Space Center’s Applied Injury Biomechanics team, designing experiments to test motion-capture gloves.

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