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Kathleen Cullen featured on BBC News World Service podcast

Kathleen Cullen, Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Otolaryngology, was featured on a BBC News World Service podcast. The podcast,...

Jennifer Elisseeff

Jennifer Elisseeff elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Jennifer Elisseeff, professor of biomedical engineering, the Morton Goldberg Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and director of...

From Blurry to Bright: AI Tech Helps Researchers Peer into the Brains of Mice

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) training strategy to capture images of mouse brain cells in...

Alexis Battle named director of Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare

Alexis Battle, associate professor in biomedical engineering with secondary appointments in computer science and the department of genetic medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will become the new director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare on September 1.

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February 21, 2022

Three from Hopkins BME elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Three members from the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's College of Fellows.

February 15, 2022

News Brief: Jamie Spangler receives NSF Early CAREER Award

Jamie Spangler, the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar and assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

January 26, 2022

Alexis Battle receives President’s Frontier Award

In a surprise move this year, the university recognizes two faculty members with the full award; each will receive $250,000 to support their groundbreaking research.

January 20, 2022

News Brief: Nicholas Durr receives NSF Early CAREER Award

Nicholas Durr, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

January 18, 2022

News Brief: Jamie Spangler earns 2022 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Jamie Spangler, the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar and assistant professor in the departments of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded a 2022 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

December 22, 2021

News Brief: René Vidal receives IEEE Computer Society’s 2021 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

Vidal was recognized "for pioneering contributions to subspace clustering and generalized principal component analysis with applications in computer vision and pattern recognition.”

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December 21, 2021

Bridging divides in AI, machine learning

A team of health equity experts from Johns Hopkins have joined a $50 million National Institutes of Health effort to close glaring gaps in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in health care and medicine among underrepresented communities.

December 20, 2021

News Brief: Jordan Green elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Jordan Green has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a distinction that honors academic inventors who have created or facilitated outstanding inventions that have had an impact on society.

October 20, 2021

Taekjip “TJ” Ha elected to National Academy of Medicine

Taekjip "TJ" Ha, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is among ten faculty members from Johns Hopkins University to have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

September 22, 2021

News Brief: Deok-Ho Kim awarded ISBF Mid-Career Award

Deok-Ho Kim, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a recipient of the International Society for Biofabrication Mid-Career Award.

Jean Fan receives NSF Early CAREER Award

Jean Fan, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

Jamie Spangler appointed the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar

Jamie Spangler, assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been appointed the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar.

February 23, 2021

Meet Jean Fan, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

In this interview, Fan discusses her research using imaging and sequencing technologies to study genes, the impact she hopes her work will produce, her non-profit organization that works to encourage young girls to become interested in science, and more.

February 10, 2021

Meet Ji Yi, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

Ji Yi joined the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor in September 2020. In this interview, Yi discusses his passion for science and engineering, his current research in designing and building microscopic tools to view biological structures, his goals as a new faculty member, and more.

February 5, 2021

Meet Adam Charles, assistant professor of BME

Adam Charles joined Hopkins BME as an assistant professor in July 2020. In this interview, Charles discusses his research developing mathematical models and algorithms to understand the brain, his goals for the future, and career advice for students.

February 4, 2021

3 Questions: Alexis Battle

Alexis Battle, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and her team have developed software that, if paired with expanded sample collection practices, could help identify more causes of genetic disorders.

Justus Kebschull

January 25, 2021

Meet Justus Kebschull, assistant professor of BME

Justus Kebschull joined Hopkins BME in January 2021. Learn more about his research, a "eureka moment," his goals for the future, and more.

January 20, 2021

Salzberg named a 2020 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Steven Salzberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, has been named a 2020 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Natalia Trayanova

January 5, 2021

Natalia Trayanova named a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology

Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for her contributions to the field of cardiology.

Andrew Feinberg

December 23, 2020

Andrew Feinberg named Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M University

The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M announced Andrew Feinberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Epigenetics, as one of ten Hagler Fellows for its Class of 2020-21.

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December 8, 2020

Eight from Hopkins BME earn Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

41 multidisciplinary endeavors have been selected to receive support this year from Johns Hopkins University's Discovery Awards program. Eight of these endeavors include faculty from the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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December 8, 2020

Two from Hopkins BME named to National Academy of Inventors

Rama Chellappa and Nitish Thakor, faculty in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, have been elected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

Natalia Trayanova

November 24, 2020

Natalia Trayanova receives the 2021 Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship Award

Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2021 Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship Award, given jointly by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society.

November 2, 2020

Sarma wins inauguaral Pitch It On! Competition for female inventors

Sridevi Sarma, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won $10,000 in Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures’ Pitch It On! competition for female inventors.

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October 15, 2020

Synthetic biologist wins prestigious Packard Fellowship

Reza Kalhor, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, edits the genetic code to enable cells to record their own growth—a key to unlocking the origins of developmental abnormalities.

Casey Overby-Taylor

September 14, 2020

Casey Overby Taylor earns Genomic Innovator Award

Casey Overby Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins, has received a Genomic Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute.

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