On March 27, President Obama named Tilak Ratnanather among just 14 individuals to newly receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). The PAESMEM is awarded by the White House to individuals and organizations to recognize the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students […]
Sue Kulason, a second year graduate student in the department of Biomedical Engineering, the Center Imaging Science and Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, received the Fulbright Scholarship to travel to the Centre de mathématiques et de leurs applications (CMLA) at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. She will be working on […]
Research from the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, was featured in the February 2015 issue of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. The paper is entitled “Beauty is a light in the heart”: The transformative potential of optogenetics for clinical applications in cardiovascular medicine. From […]
Sohail Zahid, a predoctoral student in the Trayanova lab, has been selected to receive a Johns Hopkins University 2015-2016 ARCS Foundation Scholarship. The Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the ARCS Foundation funded this program at Johns Hopkins to award merit-based graduate scholarships to students majoring in engineering and the physical sciences whose work could result in […]
Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented the keynote lecture at the 2015 Meeting of the Cardiac Muscle Society. The conference was held on February 8 at the Pier 5 Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Trayanova’s presentation was entitled “How heart modeling can improve patient […]
Natalia Trayanova, PhD, the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and her team within the Institute for Computational Medicine were recently featured in the Johns Hopkins University Rising to the Challenge Campaign for their work building complex, multi-scaled computational models that simulate electrophysiological and electromechanical heart function and test possible treatment scenarios. From […]
Michael I. Miller, Ph.D., Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor, Director, Center for Imaging Science, will be speaking at the Inaugural Indo-US Translational Neuroscience Symposium on February 25th and 26th in Tilghman Auditorium (Turner Concourse). The conference features an array of leading neuroscience investigators from JHU SOM, Homewood, KKI, the Lieber Institute, and NIH. The symposium […]
Research from the lab of Dr. Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, was featured in the February 2015 issue of Clinical Neurophysiology. The paper, entitled “Physiology of functional and effective networks in epilepsy” reviews notions of functional and effective connectivity as applied to the study of seizures in […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, is featured in the winter 2015 edition of The Johns Hopkins Whiting School’s Engineering Magazine. “Pinpointing Cystic Fibrosis Severity” focuses on research in Dr. Karchin’s lab towards predicting the severity of individual’s likely symptoms of cystic fibrosis […]
The North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) awarded Dr. Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member the first Krishna Kumar Award at their Dec 12, 2014 annual meeting held in Las Vegas. Dr. Sarma set the bar high for subsequent recipients by addressing the 2000 or so attendees with a talk […]
