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JHU students at Collegiate Inventors Competition
October 24, 2024
Johns Hopkins team takes runner-up in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Biomedical engineering students take home $5,000 prize for fetal surgery innovation
October 1, 2024
News Brief: Hopkins team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition
The student team's invention aims to reduce risks in fetal surgeries.
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.
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June 17, 2024
Three Hopkins BME affiliates awarded NSF Fellowships
This program recognizes outstanding graduate student researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, providing approximately 2,000 awardees with three years of financial support.
May 31, 2024
Design Day 2024 Roundup
On May 1, The Whiting School of Engineering held its annual Design Day to showcase the innovative design projects conceived, designed, and built by students during the academic year. The Department of Biomedical Engineering was represented by over 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from six design courses, including the undergraduate Design Team program, CBID master’s program, Precision Care Medicine, and Biomedical Data Design.
May 9, 2024
Beating breast cancer in Africa
Undergrad and CBID BME students tackle breast cancer inequities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
May 3, 2024
12 from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
A total of 12 undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.
April 26, 2024
Five from Hopkins BME recognized at Young Investigators’ Day
The annual Young Investigators’ Day ceremony celebrates the unique contributions of junior researchers and the mentors who helped them excel in their fields.
Jackson Morris
April 18, 2024
Johns Hopkins BME junior Jackson Morris receives Truman Scholarship
Junior Jackson Morris has been named a 2024 Truman Scholar, marking the first time in five years that a Johns Hopkins University student has received the prestigious scholarship.
February 21, 2024
Q&A: PhD student Joseph Criscione receives American Heart Association Fellowship
In this Q&A, Criscione shares his path to working on cardiac disease modeling, why he chose Johns Hopkins, and how he hopes his research will eventually improve patient outcomes.
January 31, 2024
Research suggests link between amygdala and early Alzheimer’s symptoms: Q&A with Kaitlin Stouffer
Stouffer talks about her group’s work on understanding how the amygdala relates to Alzheimer’s disease progression and why it is a promising frontier for Alzheimer’s research and treatment.
Erick Rocher in the lab
December 11, 2023
Improving medical care on many fronts
As a biomedical engineering major, Erick Rocher is immersing himself in wide-ranging research, from improving surgical outcomes and innovating training for robotic surgery to harnessing nanotechnology to deliver better cancer treatment.
December 11, 2023
Student Spotlight: Christine Wang
Growing up, Christine Wang ’24 had a deep fascination with space exploration and dreamed of being an astronaut. Her passion for all things space has since led her to Johns Hopkins, where she is studying biomedical engineering with the goal of integrating biomedical technologies with space science.
A male student is working in a wet lab and wearing a white lab coat.
November 2, 2023
Six from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
Six biomedical engineering undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to help fund their research projects over the coming year.
Three students pose in front of their team banner.
October 27, 2023
Hopkins BME undergrads named runners-up in Collegiate Inventors’ Competition
A team of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate biomedical engineering students were named runners-up in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
September 27, 2023
A BME summer abroad in Uganda
Ishir Sharma, a third-year biomedical engineering student, spent two months this summer pursuing a clinical engineering-based healthcare service project in Uganda.
OnPoint Ventilation team
September 25, 2023
Student entrepreneurs among Collegiate Inventors Competition finalists
The team developed the Bronchosleeve, a novel catheter to improve a common chest surgery procedure.
A group of students stands together for a photo in front of a flowering bush.
June 30, 2023
A new device for fetal therapy
Biomedical engineering third-year student Selena Shirkin and her team are working to prevent membrane rupture during emergency in-utero surgery.
Sheila Iyer, Nathan Wang, and Erick Rocher
June 28, 2023
Three from Hopkins BME win Goldwater Scholarships
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering students Sheila Iyer, Erick Rocher, and Nathan Wang have received Goldwater Scholarships, which recognize students for their research and achievements in the STEM fields.
June 1, 2023
BME student startup receives President’s Venture Fellowship
CurveAssure, a promising startup launched by Johns Hopkins BME students, will receive $100,000 from the university as winners of the inaugural President's Venture Fellowship, support designed to allow fledgling ventures to grow and thrive in Baltimore.
Franklyn Hall left, Alexis Pena right
May 31, 2023
Two Hopkins BME students inducted into Bouchet Society
Two Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering PhD students were inducted into the university's chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
May 9, 2023
Johns Hopkins graduate student startups shine in Heartland Challenge
Hopkins was the only university with three teams in the semifinals of the competition, which simulates the process of raising venture capital for new technologies.
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April 27, 2023
Eight Hopkins BME affiliates receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to eight current students with ties to Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. They have been selected for their outstanding work in science, technology, engineering, or math fields.
April 19, 2023
Two from Hopkins BME recognized at Young Investigators’ Day
The annual Young Investigators' Day ceremony celebrates the unique contributions of junior researchers and the mentors who helped them excel in their fields.
March 28, 2023
Seven from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
Seven undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.
A group of women are performing an Indian dance.
February 14, 2023
Sense of identity
Two biomedical engineering students share how they were able to maintain, define, and redefine their sense of identity at Johns Hopkins.
Four students are working around a table in the Design Studio.
February 6, 2023
Johns Hopkins engineering students develop gaming prostheses for amputees
In three-week Prosthesis Instrumentation course, students build game controllers to enable transradial amputees to play Minecraft.
A group of students dressed in business attire are standing for a photo.
January 24, 2023
PneuTech wins $20,000 grant and advances to next stage of VentureWell E-Team Program
The Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering student innovator team, PneuTech, was recently selected to advance to the next stage of the VentureWell E-Team Program.
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December 12, 2022
BME student interns at NASA Johnson Space Center
Fourth-year biomedical engineering student Rene DeBrabander spent his fall semester interning with NASA Johnson Space Center’s Applied Injury Biomechanics team, designing experiments to test motion-capture gloves.
November 7, 2022
News Brief: Hopkins BME course featured in Washington Post

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