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Jason Constantino awarded NRSA grant
Jason Constantino, a PhD student in Dr. Trayanova's lab, has been awarded a NIH predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). His research project, entitled "Image-based models of electromechanics in normal and failing hearts", aims to...
Dr. Natalia Trayanova selected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association
Dr. Natalia Trayanova has been selected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association. The most distinguished level of the society, Fellow status recognizes members who have realized major professional achievement and leadership within the American Heart Association....
Dr. Feilim Mac Gabhann awarded the August 2010 Krogh Young Investigator Award
Feilim has been selected as the August Krogh (1920 Nobelist in Physiology and Medicine) Young Investigator awardee for 2010 by the Microcirculatory Society. The award's purpose is to encourage excellence in microcirculatory research and is bestowed annually to a young...
Hermenegild Arevalo awarded a predoctoral NRS Award
Hermenegild Arevalo, a PhD candidate in Dr. Trayanova's lab, has been awarded a predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI for the project "Image-based models that predict arrhythmia morphology in post-infarction hearts". The fellowship is for 3...
Software Hunts for Malignant Mutations
Cancer cells develop lots of mutations, but not all of them are relevant. Finding the 5 percent to 20 percent that are worth studying can be time consuming. Now, a team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed groundbreaking computer software that will help narrow in...
Dr. Natalia Trayanova receives WSE Faculty Scholar Award
Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of biomedical engineering and researcher in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been named the Whiting School of Engineering’s first William R. Brody Faculty Scholar. Faculty Scholars are named for a three-year term and...
ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives “BMES Student Travel Award”
ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei has received the "BMES Student Travel Award" for the Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society. She will be presenting her poster "Modeling and Experimental Studies of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics" in the...
Computational process zeroes in on top genetic cancer suspects
ICM Faculty Dr. Rachel Karchin and and Ph.D. Graduate Student Hannah Carter have been featured in the JHU Gazette for their work published in the August 15 issue of Cancer Research. "Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift...
ICM Announces Appointment of Dr. Rajat Mittal
The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Rajat Mittal as a core faculty member. Dr. Rajat Mittal is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He received the B. Tech. degree in aeronautical...
2009 NHLBI-T15 Short Course successfully concludes another year
The 2009 NHLBI T15 Short Course on Integrative Computational Modeling of the Cardiac Myocyte, held July 20-24 at the Mt. Washington Conference Center, was a resounding success. The course was taught by a team of three ICM faculty and five graduate students. Fifteen...
ICM Announces Appointment of 2 New Faculty Members
The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members, Dr. Feilim Mac Gabhann and Dr. Sridevi Sarma. Feilim Mac Gabhann received a BE (Chemical Engineering) from University College Dublin in 1997 and his Ph.D. in...
Two Hopkins BME Undergraduates win JHU PURA Awards
Carolyn J. Park and BaoLuo Sun have been selected to receive the Summer 2009 Provost's Undergraduate Research Award. Carolyn and Baoluo will work with ICM faculty Drs. Natalia Trayanova and Raimond Winslow, respectively. Their projects were chosen by a faculty...
Grace Tan receives 2008 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
Grace Tan is the recipient of one of the 2008 Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards. She will give a presentation discussing her research on Thursday, April 9, in the Glass Pavilion. Grace’s project involved studying life-threatening irregular beats in patients with...
Grace Tan receives first prize in competition at Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmias Mechanisms
Grace Tan, a senior in the BME undergraduate program, received first prize (tissue-level category) in the trainee poster competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmias Mechanisms, held in Il Ciocco, Barga, Italy, Feb. 15-20, 2009. Grace was the...
Dr. Vidal receives Sloan Research Fellowship
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to...
Dr. Rachel Karchin Receives CAREER Award to Support Modeling Missense Mutation Research
5 years: $518,182 (with IDC) This is a CAREER award to support the research of Dr. Rachel Karchin, who holds appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering,...