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ICM Moves to a New Home!
On August 7, the Institute for Computational Medicine moved into its home in the newly constructed Computational Sciences and Engineering Building at the JHU Homewood campus. Located on the second and third floor of CSEB, this new space provides the ICM space for new...
Stephen Granite presents at Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007
Stephen Granite, Director of Database/Software Development for the CCBM, recently presented at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007. The title of his talk was “The Cardiovascular Research Grid: A National Infrastructure for Representing, Sharing, Analyzing and...
ICM Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Siamak Ardekani Receives American Heart Association Fellowship
ICM Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Siamak Ardekani has received a prestigious American Heart Association Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Research Committee of the AHA. His research project is entitled "Algorithms for Detecting Changes in Heart Shape and Motion...
Congratulations to this year’s Raj and Neera Singh Undergraduate Fellows!
Ann Kennedy will be mentored by Dr. Michael Miller and Dr. Tilak Ratnanather. Her project will focus on computational neuroanatomy. Ann is a rising junior in the Biomedical Engineering program with a minor in Biology. Timothy Law will be mentored by Dr. Raimond...
ICM is awarded funding from NIH/NHLBI for a short course “Integrative Models of the Cardiac Myocyte”
The short course "Integrative Models of the Cardiac Myocyte" will train biomedical researchers and clinician-scientists in how to develop and apply biophysically- and biochemically-detailed, experimentally-based computational models of the cardiac myocyte. Emphasis...
The Institute for Computational Medicine Announces the Cardiovascular Research Grid
Supported by an $8.5 million federal grant from NIH/NHLBI, leading researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on...
ICM Faculty featured in Johns Hopkins Engineering
Dr. Raimond Winslow was featured on page 8 in the "R+D" section-short for the Latest Research and Developments from the Whiting School. Drs. Trayanova and Karchin were introduced on page 9 as new faculty members.
Two New Faculty Appointments at the Institute for Computational Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce that two new faculty, Dr. Natalia Trayanova and Dr. Rachel Karchin, will be joining us in the next several months. Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D. who is currently a Professor...
Institute for Computational Medicine’s Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Winners
Congratulations to students Laura Doyle and Andy Wong, the first recipients of the Institute for Computational Medicine's Summer Undergraduate Fellowship. Each summer, the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM), an Institute in the Whiting School of Engineering...
ICM researchers use new imaging and analytical methods to model the structure of the failing heart
As described in an article published in the January 5th issue of Circulation Research (Helm et. al. 2006. Evidence of structural remodeling in the dyssynchronous failing heart. 98: 125), researchers at the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Whitaker...
Graduate Student Yasmin Hashambhoy to Present at Conference on Decision and Control
ICM Graduate Student Yasmin Hashambhoy will be giving a presentation on a paper regarding identifying hybrid systems in a recursive manner, titled "Recursive Identification of Switched ARX Models with Unknown Number of Models and Unknown Orders." She is the co-author...
ICM awarded grant through the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) program
The Institute for Computational Medicine has been awarded a grant through the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) program. This grant will be used to purchase IBM equipment in support for the Research Grid for Computational Medicine in Cardiovascular Applications...
The Institute for Computational Medicine Is Officially Launched!
Professor Raimond L. Winslow (Biomedical Engineering) will direct a new institute that will address important health problems by using powerful information management and computing technologies to produce a better understanding of the origins of human disease. The...
Yang, Doyle and Helm Present at BMES
Jason Yang, Laura Doyle, Dr. Joseph Greenstein, and Dr. Patrick Helm of the Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling attended the 2005 Annual Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting. Doyle and Helm gave a presentation on "Virtually Unwrapping The...
ICM/CCBM Announces Availability of Version 2.0 of the Protein-DB2 Database/Web Interface System
Version 2.0 of the Protein-DB2 database/web interface system is now available for immediate download via the CCBM website. An Apache/PHP system was the development platform for version 1.0 of the web interface; version 2.0 centers its functionality on a Java...
Bazzazi Awarded Grant
Congratulations to Graduate Student Hojjat Bazzazi who was awarded a $700 grant toward travel expenses for the Workshop on Applications of Methods of Stochastic Systems and Statistical Physics in Biology. The Workshop will be held at the University of Notre Dame from...