News: Faculty Highlight

Dr. Mac Gabhann receives Practical Ethics Funding

01/20/2016

Dr. Feilim Mac Gabhann, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine and collaborator Dr. Israel Gannot, associate research professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, are among the first faculty to receive funding from the new JHU Exploration of Practical Ethics program for their proposal entitled “Practical Ethics […]

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Dr. Miller recognized for contributions to online BME education

01/14/2016

Michael I. Miller, Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor of biomedical engineering and core faculty of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been recognized as an “Influential Biomedical Engineering Professors Who Teaches Online” by onlineengineeringprograms.com. The online source lists several highly regarded universities that offer online courses in the field of biomedical engineering. Congratulations Dr. Miller! To view the […]

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Open Connectome Project featured in JHU HUB

01/05/2016

Monday’s release of the JHU HUB featured a collaborative project by Drs. Joshua Vogelstein, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, and Randal Burns, professor of Computer Science. As stated on The Open Connectome Project website, the purpose of the site is to “reverse-engineer the brain one […]

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Dr. Trayanova receives Hopkins inHealth funding with collaborator Katherine Wu

12/18/2015

Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, alongside Dr. Katherine Wu, Associate Professor of Cardiology, have received funding for their joint proposal to the Johns Hopkins Individualized Health Initiative (Hopkins inHealth). The project, entitled “Personalized Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death Using Cardiac MRI and Virtual Heart […]

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New CM course, The Heart: from Images to Models, offered this intersession

12/15/2015

The Heart: from Images to Models (Course number – EN.580.205)  will be available during the 2016 intersession under the direction of Farhad Pashakhanloo, BME PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty. The course will provide an overview of cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology, along with the […]

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ICM research on cardiac function featured in Scientific Reports

12/03/2015

A new Scientific Reports paper featuring the work of Murray B. Sachs Professor Natalia Trayanova and Assistant Research Professor Patrick M. Boyle, both core faculty of the Institute for Computational Medicine, shares research findings that use optogenetic tools to help identify effective biological therapies for improved cardiac function (as opposed to use of implants such as […]

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Science Friday to feature research from Karchin lab

10/01/2015

Science Friday will feature collaborative research from the labs of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, and Dr. Victor Velculescu, professor of Oncology and co-director of Cancer Biology, on October 2. The Nature paper entitled “The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer” focuses on computational […]

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Dr. Miller to Co-Direct Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at JHU

10/01/2015

The Kavli Foundation and its university partners announced today the founding of three new neuroscience research institutes, including one at Johns Hopkins University. The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at Johns Hopkins will be directed by Dr. Richard Huganir, professor and director of the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-directed […]

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Christopher Douville and Noushin Niknafs to present at ASHG

09/28/2015

Christopher Douville and Noushin Niknafs, fifth year BME PhD students in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, have both been selected to present at this year’s American Society of Human Genetic Annual Meeting (ASHG), to be held October 6-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Christopher’s presentation, […]

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Dr. Trayanova gives keynote at DHLRI Research Day

09/24/2015

Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented a keynote lecture at The Ohio State University Dorothy M. Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute’s (DHLRI) 10th Annual Research Day. As DHLRI’s named Charles and Barbara Webb Keynote Speaker this year, Natalia delivered a lecture entitled “Your […]

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