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August 13, 2019
Johns Hopkins, United Therapeutics launch postdoctoral fellowship in computational medicine
Johns Hopkins University and biotech company United Therapeutics Corporation have teamed up to create a new postdoctoral fellowship in the emerging field of computational medicine.
May 10, 2019
BME students and faculty honored at Convocation Ceremony
The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering honored students, faculty, and staff from each engineering department during the annual Convocation Awards Ceremony on Monday. These awards highlight hard work and outstanding achievements in research, academics, and mentoring.
March 26, 2019
Earning the “engineering patch”
More than 30 members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland spent a day at Johns Hopkins University last weekend thinking like engineers as they designed and built miniature roller coasters.
March 12, 2019
Johns Hopkins BME graduate program again ranked the nation’s best
The Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering graduate program is once again the country’s best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s Best Graduate Schools.
A team of students are dressed up for Design Day and one is holding a prototype.
January 29, 2019
Submit your clinical and research needs to BME Design Team
Faculty, researchers, industry professionals, and healthcare providers who are interested in harnessing the collective skill, energy, and talent of the BME student design teams have until February 13 to submit a design challenge for the next round of projects.
Sri Sarma is speaking to a group of female scientists.
December 6, 2018
Rising Stars workshop puts the achievements of women researchers in the spotlight
Johns Hopkins recently hosted the Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering workshop, which aims to give women the skills they need to pursue faculty positions in the field.
November 28, 2018
Five with ties to Hopkins BME named to ‘Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
Five trailblazers with ties to Johns Hopkins BME who have become leaders in their fields have been named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2019.
November 15, 2018
Cardiologists and Engineers Collaborate to Create New Treatments for Heart Disease
In a new $5.5 million center that spans engineering and cardiology specialties at Johns Hopkins, experts aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders that affect millions of people by leveraging innovations in cardiac imaging, computer simulations and data science.
November 14, 2018
Johns Hopkins collaborates with Morgan, Coppin to promote STEM diversity
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
October 2, 2018
Paging the ‘Surgineer’
Advances in surgical precision, safety and outcomes require that we bury complexity in the OR. Enter a new kind of engineer.
August 10, 2018
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program Ranked #1 in Nation
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering earned the nation’s top spot once again in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of “Best Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Programs” for 2019.
July 31, 2018
Johns Hopkins BME partners with world’s top engineering school
The Johns Hopkins University’s top-ranked Department of Biomedical Engineering has entered into an international partnership with the world’s No. 1 engineering school, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to give master’s level students the opportunity to earn graduate degrees from both institutions.
July 27, 2018
STEM-HEAR: First cohort of students with hearing loss conducts summer research at Johns Hopkins
Tilak Ratnanather, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, is on a mission to bring more deaf and hard-of-hearing students in STEM fields.
June 13, 2018
Thirty interdisciplinary research teams receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
Thirty multidisciplinary endeavors have been selected to receive support this year from Johns Hopkins University's Discovery Awards program. The winning project teams—chosen from 190 proposals—include 108 individuals representing 11 Johns Hopkins entities.
June 5, 2018
New MINDS for Big Data
Johns Hopkins has launched an interdisciplinary institute aimed at developing the mathematical theories that will hasten the analysis of the massive amounts of data being used to study everything from the inner workings of the human cell to the structure of the universe.
May 22, 2018
BME faculty, staff, and students honored at Convocation Ceremony
The Whiting School of Engineering honored several BME students, faculty, and staff for their outstanding achievements in research, academics, and mentoring at the annual Convocation Awards Ceremony at the Homewood campus.
April 9, 2018
A neuroscientist, a data scientist, and an engineer walk into a lab…
Through the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute's postdoctoral fellowship, researchers from each field are uniting to solve the mysteries of the brain.
March 27, 2018
A design challenge full of twists and turns
More than two dozen members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland came to Johns Hopkins University Saturday to design and build miniature roller coasters out of cardboard boxes, pipe insulation tubing, cups, tape, and other household materials—and to learn about the field of engineering along the way.
March 20, 2018
Johns Hopkins BME grad program ranked nation’s best by ‘U.S. News’
The program returned to its traditional sole possession of the No. 1 spot in the rankings after sharing the top spot a year ago. The Whiting School of Engineering moved up for the fourth consecutive year to 18th overall.
Two students are seen discussing a poster.
March 13, 2018
Advances in personalized medicine highlighted at fourth annual Computational Medicine Night
Faculty and students gathered recently for the fourth annual Computational Medicine Night. The event attracted more than 100 undergraduate students interested in learning about ICM’s cutting-edge research program and the computational medicine minor.
March 5, 2018
Pioneering Hopkins scientist Murray Sachs dies at 77
His research on how the brain receives and processes sound paved the way for the development of cochlear implants.
February 26, 2018
Huge Hopkins presence at SPIE Medical Imaging symposium
The annual SPIE Medical Imaging symposium held in Houston, TX featured 14 talks from faculty and students from the Johns Hopkins Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Orthopaedic Surgery.
February 24, 2018
Barclay students become biomedical engineers for a day
To wrap up National Engineers Week, Warren Grayson, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, encouraged students at Barclay Elementary/Middle School to think like an engineer for an afternoon.
February 12, 2018
Johns Hopkins-led team of cancer researchers shortlisted for £20 million award
An international team led by Johns Hopkins researcher Rong Li, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of cell biology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected as one of ten finalists in the second round of Cancer Research UK’s £20 million Grand Challenge.
January 19, 2018
Bringing the textbook to life: High school students spend a day at Johns Hopkins BME
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted 16 high school students from the Park School of Baltimore to help fuel their passion for science and engineering.
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 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.
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.
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.

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