News - Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

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.

April 22, 2013

BME freshmen create art by writing python programs

As part of a class assignment BME freshmen create amazing art by writing Python programs.

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.

February 18, 2013

CBID students and faculty hike to top of Pulpit Rock in Norway

JHU BME CBID graduate students and faculty hike to the top of Pulpit Rock in Stavanger, Norway during Global Health rotations.

February 8, 2013

John J. Kim places first in MAPS poster competition

JHU BME student places first in the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society research poster competition. Abstract published in The Pharmacologist, research paper published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry.

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.

Students gather for a group photo holding their awards.

December 12, 2012

Hyun Sung Park wins BMES 2012 Design & Research Award

BMES selects undergraduate award recipients on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.

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.

A group of students gather for a photo with their prototype.

December 4, 2012

BME undergraduate devices featured in local news

FastStitch, a disposable suturing device that guides placement of stitches, and HemoGlobe, a device that transforms a cellphone into a prick-free hemoglobin screening device are capturing media attention.

A group of students gather for a photo outside.

November 29, 2012

BME undergraduates win at iGEM 2012 competition

Teams Johns Hopkins -- Software and Wetware, secured a win at iGEM 2012, a worldwide Synthetic Biology competition for undergrads.

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 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.

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...

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...

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....

September 9, 2011

Eugene Kim awarded the William Negendank Young Investigator Award

Eugene Kim, a BME PhD student in the lab of Dr. Arvind P. Pathak, was awarded the William Negendank Young...

June 30, 2011

CBID MSE students win 1st Place at the 2011 ASME’s IShow

The CBID MSE student team known as Hemova Medical won first place prize of $10k at the 2011 ASME IShow...

May 31, 2011

CBID team members appear on CNN segment

Sean Monagle and Mary O’Grady, members of the CBID team that developed the Antenatal Screening Kit pen system, were interviewed...