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Three female students stand with their medals around their necks.
October 17, 2022
Johns Hopkins undergraduates win runner-up award in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Two Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students and a recent graduate won the undergraduate runner-up award and a $5,000 prize Thursday in the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.
September 16, 2022
Johns Hopkins team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition
The team of Johns Hopkins engineering students developed a simpler and more comfortable brace to treat kids born with clubfoot.
A pulse oximeter is shown on a Black patient's hand.
August 12, 2022
Vital tech with a fatal flaw
The pulse oximeter is now a staple in hospital rooms and personal medicine cabinets. But a major flaw in its design could prevent people of color from receiving the care they need.
A man sits in a wheelchair with a tray to hold a carseat.
June 27, 2022
Device makes ‘Daddy Duty’ easier for new father
Like many expectant fathers, Josh Basile envisioned the day his son, Calder, would be born. He imagined holding, feeding, and...
April 28, 2022
News Brief: Former BME Design Team wins innovation grant
They’ll have the chance to collaborate with 11 other student science & tech innovator teams from institutions across the US...
A male student is working in a wet lab and wearing a white lab coat.
October 29, 2021
Eight from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
Eight biomedical engineering undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award to help fund their research projects over the coming year.
September 13, 2021
Johns Hopkins undergraduate team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition
A team of Johns Hopkins University students are among the finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition for inventing a device to reduce pain from nerve damage in people with amputations.
Two students are at a table working on a design project.
September 13, 2021
Hopkins BME holds No. 1 spot in ‘U.S. News’ ranking for best undergraduate BME program
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering has once again been named the nation’s top undergraduate program in BME by U.S. News & World Report, the longest-running and most widely cited assessment of U.S. colleges and universities.
Three student headshots are in a line.
June 23, 2021
Three from Hopkins BME join new class of Fulbright grant winners
After the announcement of a record-breaking 48 finalists earlier this spring, Fulbright grants have been awarded to three students and alumni of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering in the face of a pandemic and limited availability of placements.
Three student headshots appear side by side.
April 26, 2021
Innerva wins $10,000 “Cure It!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
The Innerva team, made up of undergraduate students from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, were awarded the 2021 $10,000 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their work with peripheral nerve injuries.
Headshots of Min Jae Kim and Shiker Nair appear side-by-side.
April 19, 2021
Two Hopkins BME juniors named Goldwater Scholars
Two juniors studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for their research and achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math
A group of eight student photos appear in a Zoom meeting.
April 16, 2021
DioTeX earns $10,000 from Draper Competition
Cassandra Parent, a third-year student studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, was recently named a track winner in the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, earning a prize of $10,000.
Ben Straus
March 3, 2021
TikTok tutor racks up thousands of followers around the world
Hopkins BME senior Ben Straus shares homework help and study tips through TikTok videos and a Discord server.
January 13, 2021
There’s no workspace like home
Three Hopkins roommates transformed their townhouse into a temporary manufacturing lab while the campus closed due to the pandemic.
A close-up shot shows the mask prototype.
December 23, 2020
The future of face masks
A team of biomedical engineering undergraduate students won $250,000 for their adaptable surgical mask design in the XPRIZE competition.
A mask with a blue front is shown next to a mask with a clear front.
December 3, 2020
Hopkins BME undergrads named finalists in global mask design challenge
A Hopkins BME team of 24 undergraduate students that's come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask.
A group of four male students stand together with their breathing assistance prototype.
November 11, 2020
Student team develops ventilator alternative for COVID-19 patients
A group of six third-year undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University is on a mission to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic from their living rooms by designing leak-proof masks that can be used with ordinary CPAP machines to deliver breathing relief to hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
The students of team Benegraft are shown in front of a white background.
September 29, 2020
Hopkins BME team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Team Benegraft is among the finalists announced by the Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual contest founded by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level.
Three students stand together wearing a combination of red, white, and black clothing.
August 5, 2020
Hopkins BME students develop low-cost device to treat postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings
Gavin Mischler, Maya Lapinski, and Katherine Hu met through the Hopkins BME Design Team program, and spent the next three years developing a reusable device that aims to reduce the rate of childbirth-related deaths for women in low-resource settings.
The woman of Team Relavo stand together holding awards.
August 4, 2020
Student startup Relavo takes home $500,000 KidneyX prize
Relavo, a company founded by Johns Hopkins undergraduates studying biomedical engineering, has been awarded a $500,000 KidneyX prize to develop a product that reduces the risk for contamination during at-home kidney dialysis treatments.
A device used for corneal transplants.
July 14, 2020
A solution to vision loss in canines
After the first client-owned dog received a partial corneal transplant in 2017, a team of Hopkins BME students and alumni developed a device to make it easier for surgeons to perform partial corneal transplants on dogs.
The team members of CAT stand together for a photo.
June 26, 2020
Start ’em up: Cellular Analysis Technologies
The founders of Cellular Analysis Technologies valued their time in the FastForward U’s spring Accelerator program so much, they’re going through the program twice—first as a Spark team, and now as a Fuel team. The program helps students from across Johns Hopkins bring their business ideas to life.
Three students are standing next to a table filled with 3-D printed visors.
May 28, 2020
Students organize efforts to 3-D print PPE for the Johns Hopkins Hospital
While most of his classmates were preparing for final exams and upcoming summer internships, Chris Shallal spent the end of his third year focused on a multi-campus effort to create and provide durable, reusable face shields to healthcare workers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
COVAID Map
May 18, 2020
With Covaid, neighbors support neighbors during the pandemic
Johns Hopkins BME senior Debanik Purkayastha and a team of university students are working to build volunteer networks online to help others during the pandemic.
Shubhayu Bhattacharyay smiles for the camera wearing a white shirt and a dark jacket.
February 13, 2020
Hopkins BME senior awarded Gates Cambridge scholarship to pursue a PhD at Cambridge University
Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, a Johns Hopkins University senior majoring in biomedical engineering, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship supporting his post-graduate studies in clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in England.
Vinay Ayyappan stands for a headshot photo.
January 31, 2020
Hopkins BME senior awarded Churchill Scholarship to complete master’s degree at Cambridge
Vinay Ayyappan, a Hopkins BME senior, will study cancer imaging techniques in the laboratory of Cambridge radiologist Ferdia Gallagher.
Alina Andrews is standing behind a wood table with a white board in the background.
January 29, 2020
Beating the Odds
Meet Alina Andrews, a BME student who hit her stride at Johns Hopkins, thanks largely to a supportive program that helped her thrive.
Three BME students stand with a teacher holding the piece of scrap metal.
December 17, 2019
BME seniors use contemporary techniques to identify a piece of JHU history
A team of Hopkins BME students identified a metal artifact in the Homewood Museum collection as a century-old part of the building's roof.
An student is wearing a white coat while he looks into a microscope.
November 7, 2019
Eleven from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
Eleven biomedical engineering undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to help fund their research projects over the coming year.
October 31, 2019
Johns Hopkins student team wins $5K at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Team Relavo wins runner-up prize for device designed to reduce infection rates during at-home kidney dialysis.

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