News - Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

June 24, 2015

BME graduate student Jennifer Xu, receives 2014 Best Paper Award in Medical Physics

Jen’s research involves breakthrough work in modeling the imaging performance of new x-ray photon counting detectors. Her image quality model gives analytical insight into the benefits of photon counting, low electronics noise, and the potential for high-quality x-ray spectral imaging.

April 9, 2015

PhD student Sohail Zahid receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Graduate student Sohail Zahid has been awarded a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The selection was based on Sohail’s demonstrated potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise.

March 12, 2015

JHU ARCS Foundation Scholarship awarded to BME Sohail Zahid

Sohail Zahid, a graduate student in the Computational Cardiology Lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, has been awarded the Johns Hopkins University’s 2015–2016 ARCS Foundation Scholarship.

February 27, 2015

I-STAR researchers shine at SPIE Medical Imaging 2015

Johns Hopkins I-STAR Lab researchers, led by Jeffrey Siewerdsen, delivered outstanding talks and were awarded prizes for their research papers at the 2015 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.

October 6, 2014

Three Johns Hopkins BME doctoral students named 2015 Siebel Scholars

Research skills, academic achievements, and leadership qualities are among the qualifications evaluated in selecting Siebel Scholars each year. Five Johns...

August 28, 2014

BME graduate student Dan Wu awarded HHMI International student fellowship

The $43,000 annual award will support her research efforts to develop diffusion MRI methods to probe brain microstructural changes during brain development and injury.

May 7, 2014

BME EDGE helps PhD student find summer internship

This PhD candidate finds a summer internship at Genetech that mirrors his Johns Hopkins lab research. The role was found through BME EDGE —a program that enables students to explore job possibilities and refine career goals.

April 16, 2014

Calcium Signal Lab researcher and BME PhD student Manu Ben Johny receives award for top research

The Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award is presented at Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day — which celebrates the achievements of Johns Hopkins students, postdocs and research fellows.

April 11, 2014

BME graduate student Kelly Chang awarded JHU ARCS Foundation Scholarship

The prestigious ARCS Foundation Scholarship provides $15,000 for education and research to support select, extraordinary graduate students.

April 8, 2014

BME graduate student Carmen Kut awarded the 2014 Sommerman Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award

This award recognizes outstanding performance as a graduate teaching assistant in the Whiting School of Engineering.

September 23, 2013

Five Johns Hopkins students named 2014 Siebel Scholars — four from BME

In recognition of their research skills, academic achievements and leadership qualities, five Johns Hopkins PhD students were selected to be honored as 2014 Siebel Scholars.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 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 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...

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 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.

September 27, 2011

Three BME PhD Students Among This Year’s Seibel Scholars

The 2012 Siebel Scholars from Johns Hopkins are Suneil Hosmane, Stephanie I. Fraley, Manisha Aggarwal, Donny Hanjaya-Putra and Hannah Carter....