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July 15, 2013
Dr. Xiaofeng Jia awarded NIH RO1 Grant
The R01 research grant, which provides support for health-related research and development based on the NIH mission, will provide Dr. Jia $2 million in funds.
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July 8, 2013
BME’s Ratnanather and Tward to be honored with Farrington Daniels Award
BME assistant research professor Tilak Ratnanather and graduate student Daniel Tward will receive recognition by the AAPM for their contribution to research in radiation dosimetry.
June 24, 2013
The Johns Hopkins BME EDGE (formerly BME Transition Generator) has launched
The BME EDGE Center has launched with a new name, a new website and scheduled information sessions.
June 21, 2013
Dr. Jeffrey Siewerdsen is promoted to Professor
Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen has been promoted to Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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June 20, 2013
Johns Hopkins BME students win two top awards in BMEidea competition
EchoSure System and Gala Pump awarded first and third place, respectively, in the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Awards competition.
May 6, 2013
“The Ph.D. Translational Excellerator: Transitioning from the Lab to Product” is Awarded $125,000 PII Funding
JHU's PII awarded MEP seed funding of $125,000 to support its new initiative to bring scientific/medical ideas into the commercial world.
April 24, 2013
Dr. Michael Miller receives Excellence in Teaching Award
BME Professor Michael I. Miller, Ph.D. has been selected to receive the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising
April 22, 2013
BME freshmen create art by writing python programs
As part of a class assignment BME freshmen create amazing art by writing Python programs.
Rachel Karchin
April 17, 2013
Dr. Rachel Karchin is promoted to Associate Professor
BME Professor Rachel Karchin, Ph.D., has been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2013.
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April 16, 2013
Yue Lab uncovers long-sought calcium channel interfaces targetable for therapy of cardiac and neurodegenerative diseases
JHU BME faculty member Dr. David T. Yue and members of the Calcium Signals Laboratory publish a study in Nature Communications that uncovers the molecular mechanism of Ca; regulation of Calcium channels.
April 8, 2013
Undergraduate device shows promise in treating oxygen-deprived newborns
Biomedical engineering undergraduate team designs “Cooling Cure” device in an effort to prevent brain damage in oxygen-deprived newborns.
March 21, 2013
BME Transition Generator receives $150,000 from JHU PII
An internship and professional development center is funded for JHU BME grad students who wish to pursue careers in industry, entrepreneurship and consulting.
February 22, 2013
Kathleen McDowell places first in GRC poster competition
Kathleen McDowell, JHU BME graduate student, wins poster competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.
February 20, 2013
BME alumnus creates replacement ear using 3-D printer
JHU BME alumnus Lawrence Bonassar uses a 3-D printer and injections of living cells to create a replacement ear.
February 18, 2013
CBID students and faculty hike to top of Pulpit Rock in Norway
JHU BME CBID graduate students and faculty hike to the top of Pulpit Rock in Stavanger, Norway during Global Health rotations.
February 8, 2013
John J. Kim places first in MAPS poster competition
JHU BME student places first in the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society research poster competition. Abstract published in The Pharmacologist, research paper published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry.
February 4, 2013
Dr. Rachel Karchin receives National Science Foundation ABI grant
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, BME and ICM, is awarded a $695,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Advances in Biological Informatics program.
January 24, 2013
TTEC clinical study proves successful in cartilage repair
A recent TTEC clinical study shows that patients who received a hydrogel scaffolding implant after the surgical repair of damaged cartilage experienced reduced pain and greater tissue growth.
January 23, 2013
Roberto Tron receives 2012 Best Student Paper Award
IEEE Control System Society awards Roberto Tron, CIS Ph.D. graduate, the 2012 Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled “Intrinsic Consensus on SO(3) with Almost-Global Convergence.”
January 17, 2013
Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan awarded W. W. Smith Charitable Trust Grant
Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan has been awarded a $100,000 Heart Research Grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. Funds will be used to further Dr. Vadakkumpadan’s research on an alternative to clinical arrhythmia inducibility tests.
January 9, 2013
Stephany Tzeng receives SFB 2013 Outstanding Research Award
JHU BME graduate student, Stephany Tzeng, receives the 2013 Student Award for Outstanding Research for her research that finds polymeric nanoparticles may be a promising strategy in liver cancer treatment.
January 8, 2013
Benjamin Bejar Haro receives 2012 MICCAI Best Paper Award
JHU CIS and BME graduate student Benjamín Béjar, has been awarded the 2012 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Intervention Systems from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society.
January 7, 2013
BME undergraduate FastStitch team wins first prize
The 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition awards the Johns Hopkins team $12,500 for their work with the FastStitch device.
December 20, 2012
MII selects CBID projects for TEDCO Award
Two projects that emerged from the JHU BME Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) will receive almost $100,000 each to continue project development.
December 18, 2012
Dongwon Lee paper voted Top 10 of 2011
Dongwon Lee, a graduate student in the BME Ph.D. program, was recently honored by RECOMB for authoring one the top 10 influential papers of 2011 in the fields of systems biology and regulatory genomics.
Students gather for a group photo holding their awards.
December 12, 2012
Hyun Sung Park wins BMES 2012 Design & Research Award
BMES selects undergraduate award recipients on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.
December 11, 2012
Helena Zec selected for 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
BME graduate student in the JHU School of Medicine has been selected as one of the recipients of the Johns Hopkins 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in recognition for outstanding commitment to community service.
December 11, 2012
BME Ph.D. graduate founder of local non-profit
Sarah E. Hemminger, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering graduate, receives recognition and press coverage for her community contributions.
A group of students gather for a photo with their prototype.
December 4, 2012
BME undergraduate devices featured in local news
FastStitch, a disposable suturing device that guides placement of stitches, and HemoGlobe, a device that transforms a cellphone into a prick-free hemoglobin screening device are capturing media attention.
December 4, 2012
Dr. Jordan Green named 2012 Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer
Jordan J. Green, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute, JHU School of Medicine is honored by award from the Maryland Academy of Sciences and the Maryland Science Center.

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