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Three Students from ICM Receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards

12/02/2020

Three students have been granted PURAs, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards, for their research in the Institute for Computational Medicine. Established in 1993 with an endowment by the Hodson Trust, the PURA program was created to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students to engage in independent research, scholarly and creative projects. Each student will receive $3000 […]

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Inez Lam Named one of Forbes ’30 under 30′

12/02/2020

In 2018 when Inez Lam, Alyssa Dittmar, Elyse Heob, and Aaron Hsu created a fog-resistant, breathable, clear surgical mask they could not have anticipated the demand for their innovation. These Hopkins-grown entrepreneurs are the cofounders of ClearMask, which has been named one of Forbes 2021 “30 Under 30” for Retail and Ecommerce.  Inez, a PhD […]

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Rajat Mittal Employs Models to Explore Risks of Covid-19 Transmission

11/24/2020

A paper published in the Physics of Fluids presents a mathematical model to estimate the risk of airborne transmission of COVID-19. Co-authored by Rajat Mittal, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, the study provides insights that could help assess how well preventive efforts, like mask […]

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William S. Anderson Awarded Thalheimer Grant

11/20/2020

William S. Anderson, associate professor of neurosurgery and ICM core faculty member, has received a technology development grant through the Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research.  Anderson and his team have developed ePACStim, an adaptive brain implant system that delivers targeted and customized electrical stimulation to suppress excessive phase amplitude coupling (PAC) in the […]

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Sarma wins inaugural Pitch It On! Competition for female inventors

11/05/2020

Sridevi Sarma, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, won $10,000 in Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures’ Pitch It On! competition for female inventors. Sarma received the most votes from the 150 faculty, researchers, and investors who watched the virtual event Oct. 20, the culmination […]

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Rachel June Smith wins 2020 Young Investigator Award

10/30/2020

Rachel June Smith, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been awarded a 2020 Young Investigator Award by the American Epilepsy Society for her abstract titled, “Dynamical Systems Theory Applied to Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Data to Infer Epileptogenic Networks.” Rachel was one of 20 young investigators selected from 1,100 submissions for outstanding […]

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Changxin Lai receives the 2020 David C. Gakenheimer Fellowship

10/22/2020

Changxin Lai, a PhD student in the department of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the Institute for Computational Medicine’s David C. Gakenheimer Fellowship for his research in the lab of Natalia Trayanova, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, ICM core faculty member, and director of ADVANCE.   The Gakenheimer Fellowship which was established in 2013 […]

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Septic Shock Starts Earlier Than Previously Understood

10/02/2020

Sepsis and septic shock are the leading causes of in-hospital deaths. Dr. Raimond Winslow, Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Raj and Neera Singh Professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Ran Liu, doctoral student in the lab of Dr. Winslow, say their findings could help provide earlier identification of the patients […]

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Rachel June Smith Selected as 2020 AES Fellow

10/01/2020

Rachel June Smith, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Sridevi Sarma, ICM core faculty member and associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a 2020 American Epilepsy Society Fellow.  The AES Fellows Program supports development for early career researchers, clinicians, and advanced practice providers. Its goal is to engage promising epilepsy professionals […]

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René Vidal Receives National Science Foundation-Simons Foundation’s Research Collaborations on the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning (MoDL) Award

10/01/2020

René Vidal PhD, Herschel L. Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member and his team have received a National Science Foundation-Simons Foundation’s Research Collaborations on the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning (MoDL) award.  This “Collaborative Research: Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, and Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET)” award will support René and […]

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