News - Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

November 5, 2012

Computational medicine begins to enhance the way doctors detect and treat disease

The report was written collaboratively by Johns Hopkins Institute of Computational Medicine director Raimond L. Winslow, along with three other Johns Hopkins professors affiliated with the Institute.

October 26, 2012

Johns Hopkins bioengineering Ph.D. students named 2013 Siebel Scholars

Five Johns Hopkins bioengineering graduate students were named to the 2013 class of Siebel Scholars. Each student will receive $35,000 for use in his or her final year of graduate studies.

October 10, 2012

Undergraduate FastStitch team wins again

FastStitch, a suturing device developed by BME undergraduates, was selected as the winner in the therapeutic devices category of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering DEBUT Challenge.

October 8, 2012

BME Postdoctoral Fellow receives two NIH SHIFT Awards to commercialize research

JHU BME postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD alumni Kelvin Liu has been awarded funds to commercialize technologies originally developed during his PhD and postdoctoral research under Prof. Tza-Huei Wang.

September 28, 2012

ICM & ICTR successfully conclude first Symposium on Computational Medicine

On Monday, September 24, over 50 members of the Hopkins research community met in the Chevy Chase Conference Center at the newly constructed Zayed Tower, Johns Hopkins Hospital to hold the first Symposium on Computational Medicine.

September 26, 2012

Dr. Rene Vidal receives IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize

Associate Professor René Vidal has been awarded the 2012 J.K. Aggarwal Prize for technical contributions of far-reaching significance and impact on the field of pattern recognition or its closely allied fields.

September 7, 2012

Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair

Jennifer Elisseeff, Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center, has been working...

September 5, 2012

Undergraduate HemoGlobe team wins $250,000 grant

HemoGlobe, a device developed by an undergraduate team from BME’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), was awarded a...

August 27, 2012

Li Lab biophotonics imaging technology published in PNAS

BME Professor Xingde Li, his group members YY Zhang, K Murari, JF Xi, and other collaborators at University of Texas...

July 27, 2012

Sridevi Sarma receives PECASE Award

Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering has been selected to receive the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) at the White House later this year.

July 19, 2012

BME PhD students win top prize at Yale Consulting Case Competition

Four BME PhD students were part of the winning team at the recent Yale Consulting Case Competition. Deborah Castillo, Jason...

July 18, 2012

Jordan Green selected to participate in NAE 2012 Symposium

Jordan Green, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering is among 78 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to participate in...

June 5, 2012

Kathleen McDowell awarded AHA pre-doctoral fellowship

Kathleen McDowell, a student working in the lab of Natalia Trayanova, has been awarded an American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship award.

May 23, 2012

Eileen Haase is Pond Award winner

May 11, 2012

Natalia Trayanova named inaugural Sachs Professor as BME celebrates 50 years

The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 4 with a daylong symposium that included the installation of Natalia Trayanova as the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor.

May 9, 2012

Daniel Tward receives NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral award

Daniel Tward, a third-year CIS PhD student working with Drs. Michael Miller, Laurent Younes and Tilak Ratnanather has been awarded...

May 2, 2012

Jordan Green wins CMU Alumni Award

May 1, 2012

Kathleen McDowell winner of the Jos Willems Young Investigator Competition

Kathleen McDowell, a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, was named the winner of the Jos Willems Young Investigator Competition at the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology

March 16, 2012

Raymond Cheong wins Michael Shanoff Award

Raymond Cheong, an MD/PhD student in the lab of Dr. Andre Levchenko, was awarded the highly prestigious Michael Shanoff Award by the 2012 Young Investigators’ Day Committee.

March 9, 2012

Xiaoxu Kang honored as a Macklin Fellow

Xiaoxu Kang, a PhD student working with Dr. Nitish V. Thakor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at JHU has...

March 9, 2012

BME postdoc Rege has paper selected for journal cover

Abhishek Rege, a postdoctoral fellow in the Neuroengineering Laboratory of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins has had...

March 1, 2012

Levchenko group nabs Science Signalling cover

A paper by Andre Levchenko, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and collaborators was featured on the cover of the Feb 28...

February 16, 2012

Feilim Mac Gabhann wins Sloan Fellowship

The 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship is awarded to Dr. Mac Gabhann to support development of new ways to treat major human diseases, including cancer, peripheral artery disease and HIV.

February 7, 2012

BME invites applicants for faculty position

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position. Hopkins BME has a...

February 7, 2012

Reza Shadmehr co-authors book on Biological Learning and Control

BME faculty member Reza Shadmehr and his colleague Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi are the authors of Biological Learning and Control: How the...

February 1, 2012

Feilim Mac Gabhann wins Guyton Award

Feilim Mac Gabhann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected as the...

January 24, 2012

Xiaoxu Kang awarded Robbie Melton Scholarship

Xiaoxu Kang, a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was selected as the winner of this year’s Women...

January 10, 2012

Xingde Li elected as SPIE Fellow

Dr. Xingde Li has been elected by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as a Fellow of the Society.

January 10, 2012

Coulter Foundation award to fund projects with translational potential

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Award that will result in $5 million in funding over the next five years to speed the movement of new medical devices out of the university’s labs and into hospitals and doctor’s offices.

January 3, 2012

BME PhD student awarded NRSA

Sravanti Kusuma, a fourth year PhD student in Dr. Sharon Gerecht's lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI to support her project.