Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine gave her keynote presentation at the Second Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology. Her topic covered “High throughput annotation of somatic mutations in cancer: computational challenges”. The workshop took place June 24-25, 2010 at The Norwegian Radium Hospital […]

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Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Course number – BME/ME/ECE: 580.616) will be available this fall with Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. The course examines linear, discrete- continuous-time, and multi-input-output systems in control and related areas. Least squares and matrix perturbation problems are considered. […]

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Don Geman, professor of applied mathematics and statistics, has been named a 2010 Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Don was elected for his contributions to stochastic processes, image analysis, and statistical learning. The 2010 class of Fellows includes 34 individuals who have made significant contributions to the fields of applied […]

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Jason Constantino, a PhD student in Dr. Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a NIH predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). His research project, entitled “Image-based models of electromechanics in normal and failing hearts”, aims to characterize the relation between electrical activation and mechanical contraction in normal and failing hearts under different loading […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova has been selected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association. The most distinguished level of the society, Fellow status recognizes members who have realized major professional achievement and leadership within the American Heart Association. Congratulations to Natalia!

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Feilim has been selected as the August Krogh (1920 Nobelist in Physiology and Medicine) Young Investigator awardee for 2010 by the Microcirculatory Society. The award’s purpose is to encourage excellence in microcirculatory research and is bestowed annually to a young investigator in the early stages of their research career. Congratulations to Feilim on this tremendous […]

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Hermenegild Arevalo, a PhD candidate in Dr. Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI for the project “Image-based models that predict arrhythmia morphology in post-infarction hearts”. The fellowship is for 3 years, starting January 2010. The goal of the project is to examine the ventricular tachycardia reentrant pattern […]

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Cancer cells develop lots of mutations, but not all of them are relevant. Finding the 5 percent to 20 percent that are worth studying can be time consuming. Now, a team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed groundbreaking computer software that will help narrow in on those relevant suspects. Rachel Karchin, an assistant professor of […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of biomedical engineering and researcher in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been named the Whiting School of Engineering’s first William R. Brody Faculty Scholar. Faculty Scholars are named for a three-year term and provide exceptional faculty with flexible financial support to promote their research, teaching activities, and entrepreneurial thinking. Natalia’s […]

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ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei has received the “BMES Student Travel Award” for the Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society. She will be presenting her poster “Modeling and Experimental Studies of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics” in the “Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” track. The conference is being held this year October 7-10 in Pittsburgh, […]

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