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Nicolas Charon receives NSF CAREER Award
Nicolas Charon, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with...
Adriana Gonzalez selected for Hopkins MD-PhD Program
Each year over 500 students apply to the Medical Scientist Training Program, a combined MD-PhD program at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The highly competitive program selects an average class size of 16 students. Meet Adriana Gonzalez, a second year PhD...
Natalia Trayanova named to National Academy of Inventors
Natalia Trayanova, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a distinction that recognizes and honors academic inventors who have created or facilitated...
Dante Basile and Julia Costacurta Receive 2019-20 PURA Awards
Dante Basile, a BME sophomore in the ICM laboratory of Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Julia Costacurta a BME senior the lab of Sridevi Sarma, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of ICM, are...
Mosquitoes use specialized wing tones to buzz potential mates
IMAGE CREDIT: NECHAEV-KON / GETTY IMAGES Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes: to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have...
Joel Bader receives NSF Rules of Life award
The National Science Foundation has issued its first ever Rules of Life awards totaling $36 million to accelerate two areas of next-generation science and engineering research: building a synthetic cell, and epigenetics. "Discovering the rules governing life on earth...
Sridevi Sarma named WSE’s vice dean for graduate education
Sridevi Sarma has been named WSE’s vice dean for graduate education, effective November 1, 2019. In this new role, she will oversee all of WSE's residential and nonresidential master's programs, doctoral programs, the DEng program, and postdoctoral programs. Sarma...
Personalized simulations lead to more accurate, successful treatment for common heart rhythm disorder
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully created personalized digital replicas of the upper chambers of the heart and used them to guide the precise treatment of patients suffering from persistent irregular heartbeats. These simulations accurately identified...
Johns Hopkins, United Therapeutics launch postdoctoral fellowship in computational medicine
Johns Hopkins University and biotech company United Therapeutics Corporation have teamed up to create a new postdoctoral fellowship in the emerging field of computational medicine. The Industry Fellowship in Computational Medicine will provide full funding...
Rajat Mittal awarded Human Frontier Science Program research grant
Rajat Mittal, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and ICM faculty member, is one of three Hopkins researchers to receive a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program. Mittal received the award for his work studying the communicative properties of...
Test shown to improve accuracy in identifying precancerous pancreatic cysts
CT image of pancreatic cyst. Credit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center In a proof-of-concept study, an international scientific team led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers has shown that a laboratory test using artificial intelligence tools has the...
Qingchu Jin awarded ICM’s 2019-2020 Gakenheimer Fellowship
Qingchu Jin, a PhD candidate in the department of biomedical engineering, is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Gakenheimer Fellowship. The award will support Jin's research in the lab of ICM Director, Raimond Winslow, Raj and Neera Singh Professor of Biomedical...
2019 Discovery Awards: Six ICM faculty awardees
Thirty-two interdisciplinary faculty teams across twelve Johns Hopkins institutions comprise the recipients of the 2019 Discovery Awards. Five of the winning project teams are led by ICM core faculty and a total of six ICM faculty members are awardees. The winning...
JHU’s Natalia Trayanova inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame
Natalia Trayanova, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins, will be inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in a ceremony Monday, June. 10. Trayanova also serves as the co-director of ADVANCE, the Alliance for...
Feilim Mac Gabhann named 2019 Career Champion
Associate professor of biomedical engineering and ICM core faculty member Feilim Mac Gabhann was honored by the Homewood Career Center for his dedication to and support of students. Mac Gabhann is one of three faculty and staff named a 2019 Career Champion for his...
Silu Men, ICM undergraduate student, receives 2019 PURA
Silu Men, a rising junior in biomedical engineering, is one of 30 recipients of the 2019 Summer Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). This summer, Silu will be working on his proposal titled, “Using Functional Connectivity to Understand the Relationship...