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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...
Millie Shah receives a Spring 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award
Millie Shah, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student in the lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, has been awarded a 2011 Provost's Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her project entitled "Computational Modeling of VEGF and sFlt-1 to Stimulate Preeclampsia and...
Brent Millare awarded National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI
Brent Millare, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Natalia Trayanova's lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI. The award will support his project “Metabolic/Electrophysiological Model of the Heart under Ischemia/Reperfusion”, which...
PhD student Lukas Rantner’s abstract chosen for featured poster session at Heart Rhythm meeting
For a second year in a row, 4th year PhD student Lukas Rantner's abstract submitted to the Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions was chosen to be presented at the meeting's featured poster session. Heart Rhythm (about 13 thousand participants) accepts only about 30% of...
JHMI Graduate Student Jodi Chapman awarded scholarship for collaboration with Karchin Lab
Jodi Chapman (Art as Applied to Medicine graduate student at JHMI) was awarded the 2011 Alan W. Cole Scholarship, the top scholarship prize from the Vesalius Trust, for her work collaborating with the Karchin Lab on an educational computer video game to teach protein...
Sri Sarma recipient of CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
Sri Sarma, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Institute for Computational Medicine, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award, given to faculty members at the...
Jason Constantino awarded for poster at Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms
Jason Constantino placed third in the young investigators poster competition (translational category) at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, which was held on February 13-19 at Galveston, Texas. His poster was entitled, "Systems Biology...
Course in Foundations of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics II offered this spring
Foundations of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics II (Course number - BME 580.688/580.488 and CS 600.688/600.488) will be available this spring with Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical...
Dr. Rachel Karchin co-chairs workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
From January 4-7, Dr. Rachel Karchin attended the 2011 Session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. While there she co-chaired a workshop on the "Identification of Aberrant Pathway and Network...
Karchin Lab receives Molly award from first CAGI meeting at University of California
The Karchin Lab received a MOLLY award for outstanding contribution to the first CAGI (Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation) meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10, 2010. The CAGI project is "a community experiment to objectively...
New Journal – Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine
We are pleased to announce creation of a new journal named "Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine". The journal will be a forum for the publication of original, computational modeling studies that provide novel insights into the nature of physiological...
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma Included in latest edition of Women in Science
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma was chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for inclusion in their latest Women in Science booklet. The article includes a brief overview of neuroscience and the groundbreaking work which Sri is...
Cancer Research by Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin Highlighted in News
In the October 8 Hopkins Medicine news release "Computer Predicts Pancreatic Cancer", research by Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin published in the September 15 issue of Cancer Biology and Therapy was highlighted. From the text: "Using a computer program,...
Dr. Rai Winslow is honored as the inaugural recipient of the Raj and Neera Singh Professorship
Dr. Rai Winslow, professor of Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) is honored as the inaugural recipient of the Raj and Neera Singh Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. As director of the ICM,...
Rachel Karchin gives keynote speech at RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology
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...