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March 27, 2017
How Randomness Helps Cancer Cells Thrive
In a research effort that merged genetics, physics and information theory, a team at the schools of medicine and engineering...
March 27, 2017
Malinow Family Fund supports student projects over summer
The Malinow Family Fund has been used to help design prototypes, conduct experiments required for larger grants, purchase materials for testing, and schedule consultation sessions.
The students pose with a boy in a wheelchair with a prototype of their retractable umbrella.
March 24, 2017
BME students design retractable umbrella for wheelchair users
Two Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students won the mobility and transportation category at the Abilities Hackathon, an event held for the second year at the Digital Harbor Foundation’s Baltimore location.
March 21, 2017
Jourdan Ewoldt earns top prize at BMES Undergraduate Research Day
Biomedical Engineering senior Jourdan Ewoldt took home the first place award at the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Day on March 10.
March 20, 2017
Six from Johns Hopkins BME elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
Six members of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University have been elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
March 14, 2017
Johns Hopkins named ‘Best Graduate School’ in biomedical engineering by U.S. News & World Report
The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering program has secured the top spot once again in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of “Best Graduate Schools” in biomedical engineering and bioengineering for 2018.
March 9, 2017
First fully artificial yeast genome has been designed
Working as part of an international research consortium, a multidisciplinary team at the Johns Hopkins University has completed the design phase for a fully synthetic yeast genome.
March 7, 2017
Jordan Green receives Curtis W. McGraw Research Award
Jordan Green, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is the 2017 recipient of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Curtis W. McGraw Research Award.
February 24, 2017
Six from Hopkins BME awarded NSF graduate research fellowships
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering will be home to six new Graduate Research Fellows – outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, or math graduate programs who have been recognized by the National Science Foundation.
Winston Timp smiles for the camera.
February 24, 2017
New Gene Sequencing Software Could Aid in Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer
Winston Timp, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, supervised research on new computational software that determines if a human DNA sample includes an epigenetic add-on linked to cancer and other health conditions.
February 22, 2017
Students aim to advance orthotics industry
Param Shah and Alex Mathews, two undergraduate students at the Whiting School of Engineering, are combining their backgrounds in computer science and biomedical engineering to improve the orthotics industry.
February 20, 2017
Michael Ketcha Wins Young Scientist Award at SPIE 2017
Michael Ketcha, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, has won the Young Scientist Award at the 2017 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in Orlando, Florida for his paper entitled "Fundamental limits of image registration performance: effects of image noise and resolution in CT-guided interventions."
Students wear scrubs and talk with a clinician in the hall of the hospital.
February 20, 2017
Students Train to Become Design Team Leaders
While many Johns Hopkins undergraduates spent January at home visiting friends and family, 13 biomedical engineering students spent their winter break taking the Design Team Clinical Immersion intersession course through the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.
February 1, 2017
Michael Beer awarded $1.8 million grant from NIH
Michael Beer, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Consortium.
January 27, 2017
Pashakhanloo’s Human Heart Image Wins Competition for Yearlong Cover on Nature Reviews Cardiology
Farhad Pashakhanloo's image of the fiber orientation in a human heart was selected from among many entries to appear on the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology for 12 consecutive months, appearing in a different color each month.
January 26, 2017
New Peptide Could Improve Treatment for Vision-Threatening Disease
Johns Hopkins researchers report that a new peptide holds promise for improving treatment for degenerative retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema and diabetic retinopathy. These vascular diseases often result in central vision loss as blood vessels grow into tissues at the back of the eye, where such growth should not occur.
January 23, 2017
Noninvasive Ultrasound Pulses Used to Precisely Tweak Rat Brain Activity
Jordan Green, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his colleagues have figured out a noninvasive way to release and deliver concentrated amounts of a drug to the brain of rats in a temporary, localized manner using ultrasound.
January 19, 2017
Potentially Reversible Changes in Gene Control ‘Prime’ Pancreatic Cancer Cells to Spread
A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells. Those advantages, the researchers say, let such cancer cells thrive in organs like the liver and lungs, which receive a sugar-rich blood supply.
January 12, 2017
Johns Hopkins launches new one-year biomedical design program for med students
The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, which specializes in medical device design, has launched a one-year gap program with funding for medical students studying at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
January 11, 2017
Michael Miller: Catching Alzheimer’s Early
Michael Miller, the Herschel and Ruth Sedar Professor of Biomedical Engineering and University Gilman Scholar, is analyzing MRI brain images of the elderly to unveil lurking signs of Alzheimer that cognitive tests cannot detect.
January 11, 2017
New type of CT scanner approved by FDA
Jeffrey Siewerdsen, professor of biomedical engineering, and a team of researchers have designed a new type of CT scanner that has recently been approved for commercial use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
January 7, 2017
Green and Schneck develop a strategy to lengthen lives of mice with skin cancer
Jordan Green, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Jonathan Schneck, professor of pathology, both at the School of Medicine, have learned that by combining a biomimetic particle along with a more traditional immunotherapy they could lengthen the lives of mice with skin cancer better than either treatment alone. Both approaches focus on activating the rodent immune system killer T cells; white blood cells that fight infection and other invaders.
Rene Vidal
January 5, 2017
Rene Vidal Earns IAPR Fellow Award
Rene Vidal, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a 2016 Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition for his contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition.
January 5, 2017
Alex Mathews named to Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list
Alex Mathews, at right, of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named to the annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list for his work on Fusiform with classmate Param Shah, at left.
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December 16, 2016
Physical Epigenetics Now Offered at Johns Hopkins
A new course in physical epigenetics will be available at Johns Hopkins University for first-year graduate students and upper division undergraduates starting in spring 2017.
December 16, 2016
New bioinformatics tool tests methods for finding mutant genes that ‘drive’ cancer
In their search for new ways to treat cancer, many scientists are using a high-tech process called genome sequencing to hunt for genetic mutations that encourage tumor cells to thrive. To aid in this search, some researchers have developed new bioinformatics methods that each claim to help pinpoint the cancer-friendly mutants.
December 9, 2016
Students develop foot-operated game controller
Gyorgy Levay ordinarily doesn't have time to play video games. The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering master's candidate is too busy working on controls for upper-limb prostheses to find time for running and jumping around the tops of buildings in the parkour game Mirror's Edge. Even if he did, Levay lost both hands to a meningitis infection five years ago, and operating the keyboard for a first-person shooter game is difficult. Over the 2015-16 school year, however, Levay spent considerable time running around a video game's virtual world.
November 21, 2016
Jennifer Xu and the I-STAR Lab Reach Major Milestone in Cone-Beam CT
Recent PhD graduate from Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering, Jennifer Xu, reached an important milestone in translating her research from the laboratory to first clinical studies of a new point-of-care cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanner.
November 16, 2016
CBID startup awarded $500,000
Glyscend, Inc., a startup company with roots in BME, was selected from nearly 500 proposals to receive $500,000 in grant money from the Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC’s World Without Disease QuickFire Challenge.
November 5, 2016
Undergrads win bronze in Collegiate Inventors Competition
A reusable cryotherapy system that could bring low-cost breast cancer treatment to women in rural South Africa has won the bronze prize for a Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering team in the undergraduate category of the 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. Prize winners were announced Friday at an event in Washington, D.C.

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