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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,...
New LS-SNP/PDB genome-wide annotation tool available
LS-SNP is a web tool for genome-wide annotation of human SNPs. The current version, LS-SNP/PDB, provides information useful for identifying amino-acid changing SNPs (nsSNPs) that are most likely to have an impact on biological function. The system is kept up-to-date...
Debattama Sen named semi-finalist in Intel Science competition
Debattama Sen, a Montgomery Blair high school senior working with Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search competition by the Society for Science & the Public. Her project is "Agent-based simulation of PI3K/Akt...
Lukas Rantner receives DOC fellowship award
Lukas Rantner, a PhD student with Natalia Trayanova, received the prestigious DOC fellowship award from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This is a 2-year fellowship awarded to "highly qualified doctoral students, irrespective of their research area". This highly...
Novel Imaging Technique Reveals Brain Abnormalities That May Play Key Role in ADHD
A study published today in AJP in Advance, the online advance edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association, reveals for the first time shape differences in the brains of children with ADHD, which could...
ICM has received a $2 million shared instrumentation grant from NIH’s National Center for Research Resources
The Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) has received a $2 million shared instrumentation grant from the NIH’s National Center for Research Resources to acquire, at a minimum configuration, a 256 dual quad-core node cluster computer with 1 petabyte of storage....
Dr. Tilak Ratnanather and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld awarded fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Tilak Ratnanather and undergraduate Mathematics/Philosophy student Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. They were awarded a Technology Fellowship from the Center for Educational Resources. They will be developing an on-line course titled "Introduction to...
Congratulations to this year’s Raj and Neera Singh Undergraduate Fellows!
Grace Tan will be mentored by Dr. Natalia Trayanova. Her project will focus on using a computational model of a three-dimensional cardiac tissue wedge to study how structural and biophysical remodeling that occurs in heart failure influences vulnerability of the heart...
Dr. Natalia Trayanova selected as a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society.
Dr. Natalia Trayanova has been selected as a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. The most distinguished level of the society, Fellow status recognizes members who have realized significant professional achievement, provided exceptional service and are prominent in the...
Dr. Rachel Karchin awarded “Susan B. Komen Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) Grant”
Dr. Rachel Karchin has been awarded a Susan B. Komen Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) Grant that will provide three years of support to stimulate exploration of new ideas and novel approaches in breast cancer research and clinical practice that will lead to...
ICM Graduate Student Laura Doyle awarded NDSEG Fellowship
ICM Graduate student Laura Doyle has been awarded a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for heart failure research. Laura is currently implementing a model of the Rabbit myocyte with the goal of improving on its calcium handling....
ICM Graduate Student Hannah Carter awarded “National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate” Fellowship
ICM Graduate student Hannah Carter has been awarded a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for breast cancer research. Hannah will build a computational model to identify weak links in the PI3K/AKT pathway that can serve as drug...
ICM now accepting applications for the Raj and Neera Singh Summer Undergraduate Fellowship
The ICM announces the second annual Raj and Neera Singh Summer Undergraduate Fellowship. The Institute will sponsor competitive non-credit summer research fellowships for Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students in the Whiting School of Engineering.
ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives “Student Research Achievement Award”
ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives "Student Research Achievement Award, Bio-Energetics Subgroup" for her research poster entitled "Modeling of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics". This poster was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical...
NHLBI will support proposals for CVRG tools
The NHLBI will support proposals for federating software tools or data sets through the CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG) infrastructure. PAR Announcement