Computer models of the human heart created by Trayanova Lab are featured in the latest issue of Scientific American under their ‘Extreme Tech’ category. The article, by Larry Greenemeier, is entitled “Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing” and discusses the new research article entitled “A Computational Model to Predict […]

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The research of Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma has recently been featured in 2 individual articles for Johns Hopkins Medicine News. The first article discusses her research with Parkinson’s Disease and the use of “computational tools to understand and fine-tune deep brain stimulation” (click here to view). The second news story highlights Sri’s personal connection to […]

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Dr. Rajat Mittal of the Institute for Computational Medicine has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), recognizing his “outstanding engineering achievements.” ASME describes the Fellow Grade as “the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession”. […]

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A paper by Yasmin Hashambhoy, Joseph Greenstein, and Raimond Winslow has been selected for inclusion in a Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology on Calcium “enclosing a selection of outstanding contributions on the topic published over the past two years”. The paper selected is “Role of CaMKII in RyR leak, […]

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On April 16th, ICM Faculty member Natalia Trayanova served as a panelist in a symposium on the promise of individualized health care during the Johns Hopkins Rising to the Challenge event in San Francisco. The event was held for alumni, parents and friends of Johns Hopkins University to learn more about how “America’s pre-eminent research […]

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A new article in the journal Heart Rhythm entitled “Mapping of cardiac electrical activation with electromechanical wave imaging: An in silico–in vivo reciprocity study” from Trayanova lab was highlighted by an editorial. The goal of the research in the published article was to model ultrasound electromechanical wave imaging in the heart using an anatomically realistic […]

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Sri Sarma, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Institute for Computational Medicine, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award, given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers, is one of NSF’s most competitive awards and emphasizes high-quality research […]

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From January 4-7, Dr. Rachel Karchin attended the 2011 Session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. While there she co-chaired a workshop on the “Identification of Aberrant Pathway and Network Activity from High-throughput data”. More information on the Symposium can be found on […]

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The Karchin Lab received a MOLLY award for outstanding contribution to the first CAGI (Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation) meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10, 2010. The CAGI project is “a community experiment to objectively assess computational methods for predicting the phenotypic impacts of genomic variation”. More details on the project […]

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We are pleased to announce creation of a new journal named “Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine”. The journal will be a forum for the publication of original, computational modeling studies that provide novel insights into the nature of physiological function in both health and disease. Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine is a sub-specialty […]

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