Dr. Taylor, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and medicine and the associate director of ICM, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the most prestigious award given by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are early in their research careers. The award […]

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Dr. Rachel Karchin has been named a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB). The ISCB Fellows program recognizes excellence in computational biology. It honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions through leadership, research, and service. She has been recognized as a pioneer in computational cancer genomics because of her development of innovate […]

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Dr. Rachel Karchin has been nominated for Nature’s 2025 Inspiring Women in Science Award. The prize is given to those who advance gender equity in science. In honor of International Women’s Day, Nature highlighted Rachel for her contributions to research and for her support for other women in the sciences in an article posted on […]

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Dr. Casey Overby Taylor will serve as Vice Chair of the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium (November 9-13, San Francisco, CA). Registration is now open!

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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 contributions to neuroscience by providing greater funding stability, flexibility, and support for overall research projects by funding up to […]

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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 overcome a major hurdle to developing personalized immunotherapies and vaccines. In a study published July 20 in the journal Nature […]

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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 Mathematics (SIAM). Laurent was recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory and […]

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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 five-year survival rate among all common cancer types (9%)  One reason for the dismal prognosis of pancreatic cancer is that 90% […]

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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. Currently, her PhD thesis focuses on creating computational methods for immuno-oncology, and on identifying […]

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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 ICM core faculty member Sridevi Sarma, associate professor of biomedical engineering. Sophia’s project hypothesizes that […]

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