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Jeff Coller
March 20, 2025
Research Matters: America’s support for cutting-edge research is a smart investment
Federal funding for biomedical research pays off by enabling basic discoveries that lead to lifesaving treatments, writes Jeff Coller, whose lab is developing new ways to treat rare genetic diseases.
March 18, 2025
Research Matters: Engineering the future of diabetes treatment
Biomedical engineer Joshua Doloff uses federal funding to pioneer immunotherapies that could free diabetes patients from insulin dependence.
March 17, 2025
Research Matters: Earlier, better treatments for Alzheimer’s
Federally funded research at Johns Hopkins offers new avenues for detecting brain disease long before it strikes.
protein strand
March 12, 2025
Scientists design experimental protein booster for rare genetic diseases
Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels of specific cellular proteins.
March 7, 2025
Research Matters: Science is worth standing up for
What if 30% of the medicines you and your loved ones depend on were never invented? Between 2001 and 2019,...
March 6, 2025
Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching, grasps like a human
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers pioneer a bionic hand that carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.
February 20, 2025
Research Matters: Harnessing the body’s natural defense to fight illnesses
Biomedical engineer Jamie Spangler and her team at Johns Hopkins develop innovative treatments for autoimmune disorders, cancer, and other complex diseases.
February 6, 2025
Balancing Act: New research reveals how the brain keeps you on your feet
New research reveals how special cerebellum neurons work together to keep you steady.
January 28, 2025
Allergy journey sparks BME graduate student’s research
Mission to develop a long-term allergy treatment is deeply personal for BME PhD student Ian McKnight, who has lived with severe allergies most of his life .
January 22, 2025
New epilepsy tool could cut misdiagnoses by nearly 70% using routine EEGs
Created by Johns Hopkins researchers, EpiScalp could significantly reduce false positives and spare patients from medication side effects, driving restrictions, and other quality-of-life challenges linked to misdiagnoses.
December 16, 2024
AI-written patient messages could boost innovation in clinical care, study shows
Johns Hopkins researchers shows that LLMs can generate realistic patient data for training AI without compromising individual privacy.
Compared to the state-of-the-art “SpliceAI” tool, the Hopkins team's "Splam" method uses a much shorter DNA sequence window to predict RNA splice sites, making its model more biologically realistic and feasible for use in research
December 11, 2024
New AI tool pinpoints gene splicing with unmatched precision
A recent innovation from Johns Hopkins researchers enables deeper insights into gene function and disease-linked mutations.
Blue and purple dots form into waves and represent ai models.
December 10, 2024
New AI cracks complex engineering problems faster than supercomputers
The shape-shifting technological solution by Johns Hopkins researchers could be a game-changer for engineering designs.
Computer rending of blood cells
November 26, 2024
Johns Hopkins team awarded funding for noninvasive anemia test
The 1.7M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help researchers to develop a low-cost, point-of-care tool for anemia screening.
A graphic shows the quantitative systems pharmacology based biomarker discovery
October 30, 2024
Computational tool developed to predict immunotherapy outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer
Using computational tools, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer could benefit from immunotherapy.
October 28, 2024
Scientists engineer ‘glowing’ gel to improve eye surgery
Innovation tackles long-standing challenge in cataract procedures by making surgical materials visible under blue light.
October 17, 2024
Hopkins joins Cancer AI Alliance
Johns Hopkins and Kimmel Cancer Center researchers collaborate on big data science.
October 2, 2024
Can AI improve how we handle obesity care?
Using a cutting-edge AI technique, Johns Hopkins researchers present a potential clinical tool to predict waist circumference and identify patients at risk for obesity complications.
September 25, 2024
Journal selects Hopkins BME research for cover
Immunoengineering research by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers was recently featured on the cover of the journal JCI Insight.
September 24, 2024
Low gravity in space travel found to disrupt normal rhythm in heart muscle cells
New research from Johns Hopkins find that heart tissues aboard the space station beat about half as strong as on Earth.
September 16, 2024
BME Design Team’s innovation aims to improve patient outcomes after peripheral nerve damage
The innovation is a set of electrodes designed to work without having to move or lift the nerve during evaluation, promising to reduce patient injury and inaccurate readings.
September 11, 2024
New tool blends classic math and AI to tackle complex challenges
Learned Proximal Networks offer reliable solutions for tasks like image restoration, reconstruction of medical scans, and other estimation problems.
September 10, 2024
JHU-led internship program opens doors for students with hearing loss
NIDCD-funded program aims to engage and empower students with hearing loss by giving them summer internships in hearing sciences labs.
August 20, 2024
VectorCam: Fighting malaria one image at a time
Hopkins biomedical engineers pioneer the development of VectorCam, a device that lets someone with minimal training identify mosquito species in a matter of seconds.
July 30, 2024
Fatal opioid overdoses lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year, study finds
New study sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths during the COVID pandemic, including sharply rising totals among young minorities.
July 23, 2024
News Brief: Sarma, Beer research featured in JHU Engineering Magazine
Research projects from Sri Sarma and Michael Beer are featured in the Spring 2024 JHU Engineering's Magazine, in an article titled "Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Medicine." 
July 9, 2024
AI could change the way we measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients
An undergraduate biomedical engineering design project yields a non-invasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure.
June 27, 2024
New study reveals how brain changes when you learn a sound
The study offers insight into how the brain’s auditory cortex processes sound-related learning, advancing our understanding of how we process acoustic information.
A computer rendering of a human heart appears in front of a heart monitor readout.
June 20, 2024
Hitting the target for successful heart ablation
In a breakthrough for guiding the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common form of heart arrhythmia affecting millions, Johns Hopkins researchers have for the first time developed digital twins of patients’ hearts that allow physicians to more precisely identify optimal targets for ablation — a procedure during which small patches of tissue causing the faulty rhythm are burned away.
An artist’s illustration of the artificial lymph node Credit: Jennifer Fairman; used with permission from Advanced Materials
June 7, 2024
‘Artificial lymph node’ used to treat cancer in mice
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed an artificial lymph node, which is implanted under the skin and designed to act like a learning hub and stimulator to teach immune system T-cells to recognize and kill cancer cells.

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