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November 16, 2017
Steven Salzberg among 2017 Highly Cited Researchers
Steven Salzberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named one of the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers according to Clarivate Analytics, which was previously part of Thomson Reuters.
Freshman trip to Six Flags
November 15, 2017
Students get a rush—and scientific data—during a day at Six Flags
At Johns Hopkins University, first-year biomedical engineering students recently headed to Six Flags America to measure how the acceleration of an amusement park ride can impact an individual's heart rate.
November 15, 2017
Hopkins researchers win $100K grant from Gates Foundation for life-saving baby monitoring device
The university’s NeMo team, short for Neonatal Monitoring, was named as one of 51 new Grand Challenges Explorations winners in an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
November 14, 2017
CBID partners with the Stevens Initiative on international virtual exchange program
The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design has been selected to work with the Stevens Initiative, based at the Aspen Institute. This program will create an engineering design and innovation cyber exchange program to bring students together through virtual, joint hackathons.
November 14, 2017
Society for Neuroscience awards Lindsley Prize to David Herzfeld
The Society for Neuroscience has awarded the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience to David Herzfeld, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
A group of students take a photo together.
November 4, 2017
Johns Hopkins undergrad team takes second place at Collegiate Inventors Competition
A Johns Hopkins student invention aimed at helping people breathe easier won the silver prize in the 2017 national Collegiate Inventors Competition. The second-place award was announced Friday afternoon after final judging at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.
November 2, 2017
Kavli NDI moves into its new space in Clark Hall
The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute hosted its grand opening launch party last Monday evening in its new space located on the third floor of Clark Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus.
November 1, 2017
Complete wheat: Scientists successfully piece together bread wheat genome
Nature reports that a team of six scientists—including three from Johns Hopkins University—has successfully mapped the genome of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, a task that researchers around the world have been trying to crack for more than a decade.
October 31, 2017
Johns Hopkins-led team aims to turn computer systems into digital detectives
A Johns Hopkins University-led international team of scientists—supported by an $11-million, five-year U.S. Department of Defense grant—wants to streamline such investigations by developing algorithms for extracting relevant details from multi-modal data.
October 30, 2017
How the brain encodes our sense of direction
The latest publication by Kathleen Cullen, professor of biomedical engineering, is featured in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience, a special focus issue devoted to spatial cognition.
October 24, 2017
Four BME graduate students named Siebel Scholars
Four graduate students in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering have been named Siebel Scholars, a prestigious award honoring nearly 100 of the top graduate students in business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science programs.
Michael Miller smiles for the camera.
October 11, 2017
Miller Opens 2017 BMES Annual Meeting with Vision for New BME Era
Michael I. Miller, director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, opened the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ on October 11 by unveiling a plan for a new era of biomedical science discovery to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Rene Vidal
October 10, 2017
Developing the next generation of blood tests
Rene Vidal is part of a research effort that is working to make the average blood test more convenient.
3-D printed heart models are shown.
October 9, 2017
3-D Printing Models of Human Organs
It was summer 2016 when a Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon began collaborating with a graduate student on a peculiar puzzle: Could they produce a three-dimensional model of a baby's heart?
October 9, 2017
BME alumnus inducted into Bakken Society
With 13 years of Johns Hopkins training, Patrick Helm joins a society honoring those who achieve the highest level of scientific accomplishment at Medtronic.
October 6, 2017
Undergrads kick off the semester with Design Sprint challenge
Students were challenged to design solutions to improve hand hygiene in high- and low-resource settings.
Sridevi Sarma
October 5, 2017
Sarma promoted to associate director of ICM
It’s been less than one month since biomedical engineering associate professor Sridevi Sarma was promoted to associate director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, and she’s already got big plans.
October 5, 2017
Johns Hopkins co-organizes first international meeting on brain health
UNOPS and Johns Hopkins co-organized an international conference with the Chinese Brain Tissue Library Cooperation Alliance and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Neurology Center.
Students demonstrate their devices outside.
October 4, 2017
Freshmen compete in annual foam core challenge
Moving a Ping-Pong ball three meters may sound like a simple task, but a group of Johns Hopkins freshmen biomedical engineering students learned first-hand that sometimes the simplest task can be the most difficult.
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.
Sridevi Sarma
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.
Sridevi Sarma
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.
August 9, 2017
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.
August 7, 2017
Sounds of Progress
Lina Reiss’ research could one day help her hear voices better amid background noise. Reiss, PhD ’05, was believed to...

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