News Type: Alumni
Entrepreneurial engineer focuses on clinical needs
Physician and engineer Ananth Natarajan, MSE ’92, returned to Homewood campus this year as part of an ongoing speakers series to share his experience launching a medical device company.
BME alumni team enters wireless home lighting market
At their startup company, Switchmate, recent alumni Peng, Dua and Romano draw on their Design Team training as they probe the automatic light switch landscape, and seek a simple installation solution for consumers.
BME alums Brooke and Rege discuss post-graduate entrepreneurial endeavor
M. Jason Brooke, MSE ’04, and Abhishek Rege, MSE ’05, PhD ’12 recently stopped discussed their experiences in launching a startup company for their portable retinal imager at a recent BME EDGE event in Clark Hall.
Investing in the future of health care
BME alumnus Robert Mittendorff ’98 keeps his finger on the pulse of health care technology as a principal at Norwest Venture Partners, where he focuses on investing capital in the field’s most exciting new developments, from medical devices to specialty pharma.
Anti-gravity treadmills improve physical therapy
Johns Hopkins BME alumnus Steve Basta heads AlterG, the California company that created the anti-gravity treadmill, as well as a bionic leg mobility trainer.
Sorger heads up medical research at Intuitive Surgical
BME alumni, Jonathan Sorger, is the director of medical research at Intuitive Surgical — a global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery.
BME alumnus creates replacement ear using 3-D printer
JHU BME alumnus Lawrence Bonassar uses a 3-D printer and injections of living cells to create a replacement ear.