News & Announcements

Rohit Bhattacharya awarded JDS Engineering Fellowship

09/09/2015

Rohit Bhattacharya, first-year PhD student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has been chosen as the recipient of the Jay D. Samstag Engineering Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The fellowship is an honor bestowed by the Computer Science department for graduate students that […]

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Collin Tokheim Awarded NRSA Fellowship

09/04/2015

Collin Tokheim, a third-year BME PhD student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has been awarded a National Research Service Award from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute for his proposal, “Integrative Approach for Predicting Cancer Driver Genes.” Collin’s research aims to develop an integrative […]

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ICM first to offer undergraduate minor in Computational Medicine

08/19/2015

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine, acclaimed worldwide for its groundbreaking research, has launched the nation’s first undergraduate minor in the emerging field of computational medicine. The minor course of study exposes students to the fundamentals of computational medicine—a discipline devoted to the development of quantitative approaches to understanding the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment […]

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Dr. Younes named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow

08/12/2015

Laurent Younes, professor and chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and ICM Core Faculty member, has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Laurent received this recognition for fundamental contributions to the mathematical and statistical foundations of shape and image analysis as well as for new methodology implemented […]

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Virtual Heart Research Featured on WTOP

07/28/2015

On August 27, Washington, D.C. news station WTOP aired an interview with Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member Natalia Trayanova. The story highlighted the Trayanova lab’s advances in developing a “virtual heart” to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. WTOP has also posted a version of the […]

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Drs. Saria and Bader Receive JHU Discovery Awards

07/18/2015

Among the team members to be granted Johns Hopkins University’s newly created Discovery Awards are ICM core faculty members Suchi Saria, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Joel Bader, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Suchi Saria’s project, with Livia Casciola-Rosen, Fred Wigley, and Laura Hummers of the Department of Medicine’s rheumatology division, is entitled, “A […]

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Dr. Trayanova Receives SOM Discovery Innovation Award

07/17/2015

Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, is among those selected to receive a the 2015-2016 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Discovery Innovation Award. Natalia’s application entitled, “Personalized Virtual Heart: Application to Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Fibrosis” was granted $50,000 for scientific […]

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Melanie Zile awarded Gakenheimer Fellowship

07/17/2015

Melanie Zile, a fifth year BME Predoctoral Student in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member in the  Institute for Computational Medicine, has been selected as the 2015-2016 recipient of the ICM’s David C. Gakenheimer Fellowship. Dr. Gakenheimer, who holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering […]

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Trayanova to give keynote lecture at 2015 iBBM Summer Course

07/12/2015

Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, is scheduled to present a keynote lecture at the 2015 iBBM Summer Course on Image-Based Biomedical Modeling. The course will be held from July 13 – 23 in Park City, Utah at the Newpark Resort. Natalia is scheduled to give her […]

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Catalyst Awards Granted to Two Early-Career Researchers

07/02/2015

Sri Sarma and Feilim MacGabhann, both Assistant Professors of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty members, have each been selected as members of the first Johns Hopkins Catalyst cohort. Their proposals were among just 37 selected from over 175 university-wide submissions by early-career Johns Hopkins faculty members. Dr. Sarma’s project, entitled “Towards a Quantitative Diagnosis […]

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