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Research by Dr. Rachel Karchin featured in “TGCA in Action” at NCI website
Earlier this year, research by Dr. Rachel Karchin was featured in a case study for the "TGCA in Action" section on the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Genome Atlas website. The article titled "New Tool Combines Many Types of Genomic Data" discusses the TOPPER...
Assistant Professor Sri Sarma featured in MIT Magazine
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma was recently highlighted in MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems News Magazine. The story by Katharine Stoel Gammon talks about Dr. Sarma’s work from the time she was a post-doc in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences...
Dr. Rajat Mittal named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Dr. Rajat Mittal of the Institute for Computational Medicine has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For fundamental contributions to the development of immersed boundary methods in computational fluid dynamics and for the understanding of the...
Research by Trayanova lab featured in Hopkins Medicine News and MSNBC
A recently published article in the Johns Hopkins Medicine News and a news story on MSNBC discusses work by the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova at ICM, in collaboration with other researches in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at JHU. The research...
Karchin Lab releases first module of educational video games for high schools
The Karchin Lab at the Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University recently released the first of a suite of educational video games developed with outreach support from the National Science Foundation. The BioHazards project "allows students and...
Sridevi Sarma receives $2 million National Science Foundation grant
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...
Paper in Science Translational Medicine co-authored by Trayanova lab featured in Scientific American
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...
Hannah Carter receives a 2012 Siebel Scholarship
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...
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma featured in Hopkins Medicine News
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...
Paper in Biophysical Journal by An-Chi Wei featured as research highlight.
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...
Claire Zhao receives a Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral award from the NSERC
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...
Dr. Rajat Mittal named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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...
JMCC selects ICM paper for Virtual Special Issue on Calcium
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...
Natalia Trayanova serves as panelist in Johns Hopkins Rising to the Challenge Event
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...
Research on a new technology in Trayanova lab highlighted by Heart Rhythm editorial
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...
Jean Fan receives a Summer 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award
Jean Fan, an undergraduate student working with Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2011 Provost's Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her proposal entitled "Improving computational models of the biological consequences of mutation through limiting the...