Dr. Natalia Trayanova has been selected as a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. The most distinguished level of the society, Fellow status recognizes members who have realized significant professional achievement, provided exceptional service and are prominent in the field of cardiac arrhythmia research and treatment. Dr. Trayanova will be honored at the upcoming annual […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin has been awarded a Susan B. Komen Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) Grant that will provide three years of support to stimulate exploration of new ideas and novel approaches in breast cancer research and clinical practice that will lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and mortality within the next decade. Her team […]
ICM Graduate student Laura Doyle has been awarded a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for heart failure research. Laura is currently implementing a model of the Rabbit myocyte with the goal of improving on its calcium handling. This model will be used in conjunction with wet lab data from collaborators to […]
ICM Graduate student Hannah Carter has been awarded a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for breast cancer research. Hannah will build a computational model to identify weak links in the PI3K/AKT pathway that can serve as drug targets in the prevention of breast cancer progression and metastasis and investigate the mechanisms […]
The ICM announces the second annual Raj and Neera Singh Summer Undergraduate Fellowship. The Institute will sponsor competitive non-credit summer research fellowships for Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students in the Whiting School of Engineering.
ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives “Student Research Achievement Award, Bio-Energetics Subgroup” for her research poster entitled “Modeling of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics”. This poster was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society at Long Beach, CA.
The NHLBI will support proposals for federating software tools or data sets through the CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG) infrastructure. PAR Announcement
On August 7, the Institute for Computational Medicine moved into its home in the newly constructed Computational Sciences and Engineering Building at the JHU Homewood campus. Located on the second and third floor of CSEB, this new space provides the ICM space for new faculty, students, and staff. The space also includes a state of […]
Stephen Granite, Director of Database/Software Development for the CCBM, recently presented at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007. The title of his talk was “The Cardiovascular Research Grid: A National Infrastructure for Representing, Sharing, Analyzing and Modeling Cardiovascular Data.” The Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG) will develop tools for representing, managing and sharing multi-scale data related […]
ICM Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Siamak Ardekani has received a prestigious American Heart Association Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Research Committee of the AHA. His research project is entitled “Algorithms for Detecting Changes in Heart Shape and Motion That Are Indicative of Disease State and Arrhythmia Risk” and he will be mentored jointly by Drs. Michael […]
