Dr. Sridevi Sarma, presented at the 2013 SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems. The conference was held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah, USA, from May 19-23. Dr. Sarma’s presentation was entitled “On the Therapeutic Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Annihilation or Restoration?” […]
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) have selected the best paper published in Medical Physics in 2012 — “Effects of protocol and obesity on dose conversion factors in adult body CT.” This honor will be marked with receipt of the prestigious Farrington Daniels Award, which is bestowed yearly to the authors of the […]
Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented a keynote lecture at the 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The conference was held on July 3-7 in Osaka, Japan. Natalia’s presentation entitled “Modeling Heart Function and Dysfunction” was scheduled for […]
Dr. Natalia Trayanova of the Institute for Computational Medicine was recently featured in the Johns Hopkins Medicine ‘Dome’ Newsletter for her contributions to cardiology research. The article, entitled “Mapping the Heart”, discusses her work towards creating “a model of the heart that would work like Google Maps” through the study of its electrical and mechanical […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, is scheduled to speak at APGA 2013. The meeting entitled “Automated Personal Genome Analysis for Clinical Advisors: Challenges and Solutions” will be held at the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies in the School of Computer Science Complex at Carnegie […]
Dr. Michael Miller will receive the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising from the Whiting School of Engineering at May 6th Convocation. Often referred to simply as the “McDonald Mentoring Award,” this program recognizes and honors diverse professionals in engineering and the applied sciences who, as exemplary mentors and advisors, […]
Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s recent application to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, “Predicting the Optimal Ablation Targets for Infarct-related Ventricular Tachycardia” has been recommended for funding with the remarkable percentile of 1%. This caps a string of achievements in the past year for Dr. Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and […]
The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Rachel Karchin has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2013. Dr. Karchin holds appointments with the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, as […]
The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce the appointments of Suchi Saria and Joel Bader to our core faculty, bringing the total number of ICM core faculty to 17. Their research and participation will further enrich the Institute’s mission to develop and apply individualized computational models of disease that enable physicians to deliver […]
Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine recently received an award of $695K for 3 years from the National Science Foundation. The award, which is part of the NSF’s Advances in Biological Informatics program is entitled “ABI Innovation: Predicting the combined impact of multiple mutations on protein […]
