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Dr. Rachel Karchin Inducted into 2025 Class of ISCB Fellows
On July 21, 2025, Rachel Karchin, professor of biomedical engineering, oncology, and computer science and core member of the Institute for Computational Medicine was inducted into the 2025 Class of ISCB fellows. 19 new fellows of the International Society for...
Dr. Sri Sarma named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Dr. Sri Sarma has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is among 171 engineers and researchers in this year's class who were celebrated at an induction ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Membership in AIMBE's...
Prof. Casey Overby Taylor receives NIH Presidential Early Career Award
Casey Overby Taylor—an associate professor of biomedical engineering and medicine, a Malone Center affiliate, and the associate director of the Institute for Computational Medicine—is one of nearly 400 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists...
Prof. Casey Overby Taylor is AMIA 2024 Vice Chair
Dr. Casey Overby Taylor is the Vice Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, November 9-12, 2024, in San Francisco, CA. She joins a distinguished group of colleagues on AMIA 2024’s Scientific Program Committee to help plan...
Prof. Rachel Karchin and Kyle Moad lead variant effect prediction workshop for Cancer Genomics Consortium
Prof. Rachel Karchin and lead software engineer Kyle Moad lead a workshop and discussion about increasing the transparency of variant effect prediction at the Cancer Genomics Consortium Unconference, August 3, 2024 in St. Louis, Missouri. Read more here:...
Sri Sarma receives NIH Outstanding Investigator Award
Dr. Sri Sarma, core faculty member of ICM, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Vice Dean for graduate education and lifelong learning, has been selected to receive an NIH Outstanding Investigator Award meant to help investigators make meaningful...
New Machine-Learning Method May Aid Personalized Cancer Therapy
Deep-learning technology developed by a team of Johns Hopkins engineers and cancer researchers can accurately predict cancer-related protein fragments that may trigger an immune system response. If validated in clinical trials, the technology could help scientists...
New Machine-Learning Method May Aid Personalized Cancer Therapy
Deep-learning technology developed by a team of Johns Hopkins engineers and cancer researchers can accurately predict cancer-related protein fragments that may trigger an immune system response. If validated in clinical trials, the technology could help scientists...
Laurent Younes elected as 2023 SIAM Fellow
Laurent Younes, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a core faculty member in both the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Center for Imaging Science, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied...
Postdoctoral Scientist Positions at Karchin Lab
Description We are seeking recent Ph.D. graduates for postdoctoral scientist positions in Dr. Rachel Karchin's lab at the Institute of Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly disease with the lowest...
Melody Shao awarded 2023 Siebel Scholarship
Xiaoshan (Melody) Shao, a PhD candidate in the lab of ICM core faculty member Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a prestigious Siebel Scholarship for 2023. Melody received her B[SS1] S in biomedical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017....
Sophia Zhai receives 2022 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
Sophia Zhai, a junior in biomedical engineering, is a recipient of the 2022 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). Sophia will be working on her proposal titled, “Virtual Stimulation of Interictal Stereo-EEG to Localize the Epileptogenic Zone” in the lab of...
Sri Sarma to serve as Executive Director for NeuroTech Harbor Technology
Dr. Sridevi Sarma, associate professor of biomedical engineering and ICM core faculty member, will serve as the executive director of the new NeuroTech Harbor technology accelerator. This NIH-funded center will collaborate with diverse partners worldwide to launch...
Rajat Mittal wins APS Stanley Corrsin Award
Rajat Mittal, professor of Mechanical Engineering and a core faculty member in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been chosen to receive the American Physical Society’s Stanley Corrsin Award. This award, which recognizes particularly influential...
Rajat Mittal research on posture while taking pills featured in Baltimore Sun
Rajat Mittal, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has newly published a study in Physics of Fluid that demonstrates the best way to take a pill. Posture can have a large impact on how your body absorbs medicine, and the wrong posture can...
Natalia Trayanova elected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Natalia Trayanova has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a distinction that recognizes cardiology’s top experts and the professional achievements of scholars who have made exceptional contributions to the field. The American College of...