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Five from Hopkins BME recognized at Young Investigators’ Day

The annual Young Investigators’ Day ceremony celebrates the unique contributions of junior researchers and the mentors who helped them excel in their fields.

Parkinetics: Improved motion data collection of Parkinson’s patients in everyday life

Biomedical engineering team aims to help clinicians use motion data collection to inform medication adjustment

Two biomedical engineering alumni and one graduate student named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows

One of the most competitive scholarships in the United States, the Soros Fellowship honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.

Johns Hopkins BME junior Jackson Morris receives Truman Scholarship

Junior Jackson Morris has been named a 2024 Truman Scholar, marking the first time in five years that a Johns Hopkins University student has received the prestigious scholarship.

Hopkins BME undergrad wins Fulbright Award to India

Vasu plans to develop a low-cost creatinine sensor to measure kidney function in patients at risk of kidney disease.

Jordan Green installed as the Herschel L. Seder Professor in Biomedical Engineering

Jordan Green, professor of biomedical engineering, was named the Herschel L. Seder Professor in biomedical engineering during an installation ceremony on April 9, 2024 at the Homewood Campus.

Hopkins BME undergrad Kyra Bowden awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Bowden aspires to use machine learning and image analysis to study disease and injury and optimize outcomes for orthopedics patients.

Joshua Doloff receives grant from Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance

Doloff will use funds to expand research in developing strategies for precise ovarian cancer treatment.

Four from Hopkins BME elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Kathleen Cullen, Andrew Feinberg, Eileen Haase, and Deok-Ho Kim have been honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education.

News Brief: Rama Chellappa named the 2024 Edwin H. Land Medal Recipient

Chellappa is honored for seminal contributions to the theory and practice of image/video processing and computer vision arenas resulting in inventions, technologies, and systems that have improved the lives of many worldwide.

Jamie Spangler earns second 2024 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Spangler is the recipient of a 2024 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award to continue a multi-year project aimed at developing new immunotherapy approaches.

Stephanie Hicks invited to NAM Emerging Leaders Forum

The invitation-only forum is an annual assembly of outstanding early- and mid-career professionals with exceptional professional promise, achievement, and leadership in biomedical science, health, health care and related fields.

February 26, 2024

Hopkins BME alum Ishan Kalburge awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Kalburge will investigate how humans form internal representations of uncertainty during decision-making.

February 22, 2024

Hopkins researchers receive Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards

Adam Charles, Jamie Spangler, and Jeremias Sulam receive awards to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegenerative disease and fundamental neuroscience.

February 22, 2024

Justus Kebschull named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow

The Sloan Fellowship honors exceptional researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.

February 22, 2024

Hopkins BME, university consortium take on grand challenges in biomedical engineering

In a new IEEE paper, an alliance of 50 experts from 34 elite universities— including Johns Hopkins —reveal five research areas where the field of biomedical engineering has the potential to achieve tremendous impact on the field of medicine.

February 21, 2024

Q&A: PhD student Joseph Criscione receives American Heart Association Fellowship

In this Q&A, Criscione shares his path to working on cardiac disease modeling, why he chose Johns Hopkins, and how he hopes his research will eventually improve patient outcomes.

Overlay of cellular positions from two partially matched serial sections of a breast tumor after alignment using STalign

February 20, 2024

Computational tool offers new possibilities for spatial genomics research

Johns Hopkins engineers develop a new computational method to precisely align spatial transcriptomics data across samples, resolutions, and technologies, enabling researchers to learn more about the underlying biology of cells.

February 12, 2024

News Brief: Trayanova to give The Physiological Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture

The Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.

February 6, 2024

Eric Young, Johns Hopkins hearing research pioneer, dies

In research that spanned more than 40 years, Dr. Young’s main focus was in understanding the biological basis of common hearing impairments in the brain’s auditory system.

February 1, 2024

Meet RoboDrop, the superbug slayer

Johns Hopkins researchers created RoboDrop: a robotic platform capable of rapidly screening multiple combinations of antibiotics simultaneously to find the most potent mixtures and provide a tool for understanding and navigating drug interactions.

January 31, 2024

Research suggests link between amygdala and early Alzheimer’s symptoms: Q&A with Kaitlin Stouffer

Stouffer talks about her group’s work on understanding how the amygdala relates to Alzheimer’s disease progression and why it is a promising frontier for Alzheimer’s research and treatment.

January 17, 2024

BME alum Renee Liu named Schwarzman Scholar

Liu is among 150 students to receive all expenses for year at Beijing's Tsinghua University.

January 9, 2024

News Brief: Research from Johns Hopkins named one of National Geographic’s top medical breakthroughs of 2023

Research from Johns Hopkins and University of Cambridge has been named one of National Geographic’s seven medical breakthroughs of 2023....

January 9, 2024

“Ground truth” colonoscopy dataset to boost cancer detection through AI

A Johns Hopkins University research team has created a dataset of simulated colonoscopy videos, called C3VD, that can help researchers evaluate how their computer vision models will perform in real-world scenarios.

December 13, 2023

Molecular biologist Jeff Coller joins Hopkins BME

Coller is a groundbreaking genetics researcher whose work has led to fundamental shifts in the understanding of gene expression and to the creation of new therapeutics for treating genetic disorders such as Dravet syndrome.

December 12, 2023

Brain imaging technique allows researchers to achieve more with less data

Hopkins researchers develop new AI algorithm that can reconstruct brain images to identify potential biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases.

Erick Rocher in the lab

December 11, 2023

Improving medical care on many fronts

As a biomedical engineering major, Erick Rocher is immersing himself in wide-ranging research, from improving surgical outcomes and innovating training for robotic surgery to harnessing nanotechnology to deliver better cancer treatment.

December 11, 2023

Student Spotlight: Christine Wang

Growing up, Christine Wang ’24 had a deep fascination with space exploration and dreamed of being an astronaut. Her passion for all things space has since led her to Johns Hopkins, where she is studying biomedical engineering with the goal of integrating biomedical technologies with space science.

November 22, 2023

News Brief: Casey Overby Taylor awarded funding from NIMHD

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program and 10 partner institutes, centers, and offices have funded 26...

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