Dr. Sridevi V. Sarma of the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation award of $2,000,000 for support of the project entitled “EFRI-M3C: Robust Decoder-Compensator Architecture for Interactive Control of High-Speed and Loaded Movements”. The research involves developing a novel model-based Robust Decoder-Compensator […]

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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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Hannah Carter, a Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2012 Siebel Scholarship. Students are nominated for the Siebel Scholarship on the basis of academic and research excellence and leadership activity during their graduate school career. The scholarship itself is $35000 to supplement the student’s stipend in their final […]

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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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A new article entitled “Mitochondrial energetics, pH regulation, and ion dynamics: A computaional-experimental approach” from An-Chi Wei of Dr. Raimond Winslow’s lab was highlighted as a featured article in the June 22 issue of Biophysical Journal. In this published article, a computational model of mitochondrial energetics and ion dynamics was presented. With the collaboration with […]

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Claire Zhao, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Raimond Winslow’s lab, has been awarded a Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGSD) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This award will support her project “Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Calcium Entrained Arrhythmia”, which aims to gain new insights into the causes of cardiac […]

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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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