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May 18, 2018
BME students showcase solutions to health care needs at annual Design Day
During this year’s BME Design Day, 17 teams of biomedical engineering undergraduates and eight teams of CBID master’s students presented their year-long projects to hundreds of engineers, physicians, and industry leaders.
May 17, 2018
A Hackathon with Humanitarian Aims
At the first-ever virtual Humanitarian Design Hackathon at Johns Hopkins, student groups have been tasked with generating a solution to a problem or need faced mainly by Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
BME students are dressed in scrubs and listening to a surgeon in the OR.
May 16, 2018
Medicine’s Problem-Solvers
Through their work in hospitals and labs, Johns Hopkins engineering undergrads come up with real-world solutions that are critical to improving patient care.
May 8, 2018
Treyetech wins $10,000 ‘Cure It!’ Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Team Treyetech won the 2018 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize worth $10,000 for its work in developing a new device that will make corneal transplant surgery easier to perform.
May 2, 2018
AssistENT wins $10,000 ‘Use It!’ Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
A team of undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University win the 2018 $10,000 “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for designing a product that can help those who suffer from chronic nasal obstruction.
May 1, 2018
A Souped-up Walker to Help Get Pediatric ICU Patients on Their Feet
An undergraduate student design team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University is developing a walker designed to get young patients in pediatric intensive care units up and moving as quickly as possible.
May 1, 2018
Hopkins BME students take top prizes at annual JHU Business Plan Competition
Three Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering teams won top prizes at the 19th annual Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition in a day-long event Friday that capped months of preparation and prototyping.
April 25, 2018
Johns Hopkins BME junior named Goldwater Scholar
Alaleh Azhir, a junior biomedical engineering major, is one of three Johns Hopkins students named a Goldwater Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year. Junior Rohan Panaparambil received honorable mention.
April 18, 2018
BME’s Rheeda Ali awarded Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Postdoctoral researcher Rheeda Ali has been awarded a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of the Johns Hopkins Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion. Out of 64 nominations, eight trainees representing various divisions of Johns Hopkins were chosen to receive this fellowship, which provides a year of financial support to awardees.
April 18, 2018
International student teams compete at Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
The 2018 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition attracted student teams from universities across the globe to showcase novel engineering and software design solutions to clinical needs. 
April 17, 2018
Two BME researchers honored at Young Investigators’ Day
Two members of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering were honored today at the School of Medicine’s 2018 Young Investigators’ Day award ceremony.
April 11, 2018
Two teams of Hopkins BME undergrads among winners at MIT young inventors competition
Two teams of Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students are among six groups to receive a 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, which recognizes promising young inventors from around the country.
April 10, 2018
Four Hopkins BME students awarded NSF Fellowships
Four PhD candidates studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University have earned prestigious fellowship awards through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
March 20, 2018
Meet Tara Blair, BME senior
In this interview, Blair offers an inside look at what it’s like to study biomedical engineering, the opportunities and activities available to students at Johns Hopkins, and advice for incoming freshmen.
March 15, 2018
Meet Shiva Razavi, BME Ph.D. student
In an interview with Johns Hopkins Medicine, Razavi shared details of her journey to become a biomedical engineer, the mentors who helped her pursue this career path, and the importance of supporting women in STEM.
John Hickey stands for a photo.
February 27, 2018
Instructor creates tool that lets teachers know what’s working—and what isn’t
John Hickey, doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, created Tcrunch, an app that facilitates real-time feedback and gives students a stronger voice in the classroom.
February 22, 2018
Johns Hopkins Engineering students introduce middle school girls to engineering
Engineering students spent part of last Saturday guiding and mentoring local middle school girls in ReadySetDesign’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering event, held as part of JHU’s 2018 National Engineers Week celebration.
February 21, 2018
Teams showcase engineering know-how at annual Tower of Power contest
The annual Tower of Power event challenges teams to construct the tallest towers from uncooked pasta and marshmallows.
January 18, 2018
Partnering with Industry for Better Education in Drug Discovery
Inez Lam and Natalia Majewska were the first two students selected to participate in the Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program and have recently begun their research projects.
January 3, 2018
Students showcase design projects and compete in annual Shark Tank contest
The Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design held its fifth annual Fall Healthcare Innovation Showcase and Shark Tank where students presented their ongoing work to develop innovative solutions to unmet health care needs.
A group of students stand together for a picture.
December 19, 2017
Two BME student teams receive O’Connor Entrepreneurship Funding
Founded by Johns Hopkins alum Ralph O’Connor and his wife, Becky, the O’Connor Fund program awards each team a $5,000 grant with the opportunity to earn $5,000 more by reaching certain milestones.
Freshman trip to Six Flags
November 15, 2017
Students get a rush—and scientific data—during a day at Six Flags
At Johns Hopkins University, first-year biomedical engineering students recently headed to Six Flags America to measure how the acceleration of an amusement park ride can impact an individual's heart rate.
November 14, 2017
Society for Neuroscience awards Lindsley Prize to David Herzfeld
The Society for Neuroscience has awarded the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience to David Herzfeld, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
A group of students take a photo together.
November 4, 2017
Johns Hopkins undergrad team takes second place at Collegiate Inventors Competition
A Johns Hopkins student invention aimed at helping people breathe easier won the silver prize in the 2017 national Collegiate Inventors Competition. The second-place award was announced Friday afternoon after final judging at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.
October 24, 2017
Four BME graduate students named Siebel Scholars
Four graduate students in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering have been named Siebel Scholars, a prestigious award honoring nearly 100 of the top graduate students in business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science programs.
October 6, 2017
Undergrads kick off the semester with Design Sprint challenge
Students were challenged to design solutions to improve hand hygiene in high- and low-resource settings.
Students demonstrate their devices outside.
October 4, 2017
Freshmen compete in annual foam core challenge
Moving a Ping-Pong ball three meters may sound like a simple task, but a group of Johns Hopkins freshmen biomedical engineering students learned first-hand that sometimes the simplest task can be the most difficult.
September 27, 2017
Johns Hopkins undergrads among finalists in annual Collegiate Inventors Competition
The AssistENT team, formed by biomedical engineering majors during the 2016-17 school year, is one of six undergraduate finalists that will compete for top honors and prizes worth up to $10,000 during the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.
September 5, 2017
CBID students spend the summer with clinicians around the world
Every summer, students from the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design travel to some of the world’s most underserved communities and work side by side with primary care providers. They assess patient and provider needs, and design the next generation of medical devices.
A male student demonstrates the device in the Design Studio.
September 1, 2017
Undergrads bring home three awards from NIH DEBUT Challenge
Undergraduate design teams in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design won three awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge.

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