News & Announcements

3-D Tool Seeks to Disable Ebola

11/25/2014

The lab of William R. Brody Faculty Scholar Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has collaborated with bioinformatics software firm inSilico Solutions and the UC Santa Cruz Ebola Genome Portal to develop MuPIT Ebola Edition, a free, browser-based online tool that enables researchers to visualize Ebola gene mutations in […]

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Cardiac modeling by Trayanova lab featured in IEEE Spectrum

10/29/2014

In a recent article featured in IEEE Spectrum, Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, describes recent progress by her lab in the creation of custom virtual heart models for individual cardiac patients. These advances may fundamentally change the clinical approach to treating life-threatening heart conditions. Dr. […]

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Two New Additions to ICM Core Faculty

10/07/2014

The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce two recent additions to our core faculty. We’re confident that their professional and research contributions will further advance ICM’s mission to develop and apply individualized computational models of disease that enable physicians to deliver improved patient care. Please join us in welcoming the following distinguished colleagues: […]

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ICM establishes ITCR Computational Medicine Core

09/19/2014

The Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) is pleased to announce the establishment of a Computational Medicine Core. This new core, supported by NIH funding to the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, will help faculty across the Johns Hopkins enterprise add computational modeling to their research endeavors. The Computational Medicine Core was created to support […]

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Iraj Hosseini receives a 2015 Siebel Scholarship

09/12/2014

Iraj Hosseini, a Graduate Student in the lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine Core Faculty Member, has been awarded a 2015 Siebel Scholarship. Iraj received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. (with honors) from University of Alberta and Isfahan University, respectively. At JHU, Iraj has […]

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Brian Lee awarded 2014-2015 David C. Gakenheimer Fellowship award

09/08/2014

Brian Lee, a second year BME Predoctoral Student in the lab of Dr. Michael Miller, Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins, director of the university’s Center for Imaging Science, and core faculty member in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been selected as the recipient of the Institute for Computational […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova gives keynote lecture at 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting

07/23/2014

Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented a keynote lecture at the 2014 SIAM Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The conference was held July 7-11 in Chicago, Illinois. Natalia’s presentation entitled “Virtual Electrophysiology Laboratory” was scheduled for Thurs, July 10. […]

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Daniel Tward awarded at 2014 XSEDE Conference for best “Lightning Talk”

07/21/2014

BME PhD student Daniel Tward attended the 2014 Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) conference in Atlanta, Georgia and received a prize for the best “Lightning Talk”. His presentation “Computational Anatomy Gateway: Leveraging XSEDE Computational Resources for Shape Analysis” was authored with Saurabh Jain, David Lee, Anthony Kolasny, Timothy Brown, Tilak Ratnanather, Laurent Younes […]

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Student work overseen by Dr. Tilak Ratnanather featured in WSE Summer News

06/17/2014

An article in the Summer 2014 issue of JHU Engineering Magazine highlights a promising iPad app designed by Hopkins undergrads to help train deaf adults with cochlear implants (CI) to understand speech from the electrical signals that CI devices provide. Student team members include Margo Heston, Rohit Bhattacharya, and Joanne Song, all of the Department […]

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Vidal Elected to the 2014 Class of IEEE Fellows

06/13/2014

René Vidal has been named to the 2014 Class of IEEE Computer Society Fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to […]

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