Julia Costacurta, a junior biomedical engineering and mathematics major in the lab of ICM associate director, Sridevi Sarma, is one of three Johns Hopkins University students who has been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for their research and achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for the 2019-2020 academic year. Read the full article […]
Troops from across Maryland design and build roller coasters out of everyday materials with help from Johns Hopkins engineering students.
More than 30 members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland spent a day at Johns Hopkins University last weekend thinking like engineers as they designed and built miniature roller coasters out of cardboard boxes, insulation tubing, pipe cleaners, cups, tape, and other everyday materials. Through this fun and competitive activity, the middle school-aged troop […]
Scientists with disabilities who work in a field related to their disability offer unique viewpoints to academic research, thus enhancing research in their field. A recent article in the spring 2019 issue of Acoustics Today focuses on the contributions of deaf or hard-of-hearing scientists to the field of auditory research in their own words. In […]
More than 100 faculty, students and clinicians assembled recently in Hackerman Hall for the fifth annual Computational Medicine Night, the Institute for Computational Medicine’s signature event. The event drew attendees from the Whiting School of Engineering, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine to learn about the ICM’s translational research […]
Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has been selected to receive the Heart Rhythm Society’s (HRS) Distinguished Scientist Award. Trayanova will be honored at the Society’s 40th Scientific Sessions in San Francisco this May. The HRS, a leading resource on cardiac pacing and electrophysiology, is dedicated […]
Scientists discover a ‘push-pull’ dynamic between the brain’s hemispheres during high-risk betting.
The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Rachel Karchin, William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, has been promoted by the Johns Hopkins University to full professor of Biomedical Engineering effective July 1, 2018. Dr. Karchin holds appointments with the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of […]
The award is presented annually to a physician or team who partners with patients, families, colleagues, and staff members to optimize patient outcomes and eliminate preventable harm.
Annie Liang, a BME sophomore in the ICM laboratory of Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is one of 48 awardees of the 2018-19 Provost Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA). Annie’s winning research proposal titled, “Parameters influencing arrhythmia inducibility in the post myocardial infarcted (MI) heart arising from treatment with PSC-CM cell sheets,” was chosen […]
