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René Vidal appointed the Herschel L. Seder Professor in BME
René Vidal, ICM core faculty member and professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed as the Herschel L. Seder Professor in Biomedical Engineering. The Herschel L. Seder Professorship in Biomedical Engineering...
Alecia Flynn wins 2018 WSE Staff Recognition Award
On April 23, Alecia Flynn, ICM’s Senior Academic Program Coordinator, was among one of three individuals to receive the 2018 Whiting School of Engineering Staff Recognition Award for excellence. Winners are acknowledged for their outstanding achievement, innovation,...
ICM Undergraduates represent Sarma Lab at DREAMS 2018
Four students in the ICM lab of Sridevi Sarma, associate director of ICM and associate professor of biomedical engineering, participated in DREAMS 2018, an undergraduate research day that took place last Friday, April 27. Anil Palepu, Julia Costacurta and Kathy Hu,...
Inez Lam and ClearMask team take top prize at Social Innovation Lab showcase
Inez Lam, ICM PhD student in the lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, is part of the team of innovators behind ClearMask, a Hopkins-grown startup that won the top funding prize of $25,000 at the Social Innovation Lab showcase on Wednesday. Lam along with Alyssa Dittmar, Aaron...
Macauley Breault receives second consecutive ARCS Scholarship
Macauley Breault has been named an ARCS Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year. This marks the second consecutive year that Breault has been awarded an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship to support her research in the lab of Sridevi Sarma,...
ICM undergraduates receive Center for Educational Resources Technology Fellowship
Julia Costacurta and Jung Min Lee, sophomores in the Institute for Computational Medicine and the department of biomedical engineering, received a technology fellowship from the Center for Educational Resources for their research proposal, "An Interactive Set of...
Sarvenaz Sarabipour honored at 10th annual Green Blue Jay Awards
ICM postdoctoral fellow Sarvenaz Sarabipour was one of thirteen members of the Johns Hopkins community who were honored by the Office of Sustainability at the 10th Annual Green Blue Jay Awards ceremony on April 17. The thirteen award winners were selected for their...
Collin Tokheim honored at Young Investigators’ Day
Collin Tokheim, ICM PhD candidate in the lab of Rachel Karchin, ICM core faculty member and associate professor of biomedical engineering, was honored at the School of Medicine's 2018 Young Investigators' Day award ceremony on April 17. Tokheim was among the 22 junior...
Julie Shade receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Julie Shade, a first year PhD student in the ICM lab of Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been granted a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship...
Collin Tokheim to receive 2018 Young Investigator Award
Collin Tokheim, ICM PhD candidate, has been selected by the Young Investigators' Day Committee to receive the Martin and Carol Macht Award. Tokheim was selected for his outstanding research in the lab of Rachel Karchin, ICM core faculty member, associate professor of...
A design challenge full of twists and turns
More than two dozen members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland came to Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus Saturday to design and build miniature roller coasters out of cardboard boxes, pipe insulation tubing, cups, tape, and other household materials—and...
Natalia Trayanova receives IDIES Seed Funding Award
Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded a 2018 Seed Funding Award by the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) for her research titled, "Data-driven prediction of risk of sudden cardiac death."...
Computer, P.I: Can we teach computers to be digital detectives?
Imagine standing on the sidewalk of a busy city street, taking in your surroundings. "When you or I look at that scene, we have a task in mind—whether to find a place to eat or shop, the metro station, or a particular person," says René Vidal, a Johns Hopkins...
Sridevi Sarma featured on IEEE Brain podcast
Sridevi Sarma, ICM core faculty member and associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was recently a guest on the IEEE Brain Initiative podcast series, where she discussed her background in electrical engineering and control theory, her...
Advances in personalized medicine highlighted at fourth annual Computational Medicine Night
Faculty and students gathered recently for the Institute for Computational Medicine’s fourth annual Computational Medicine Night in Hackerman Hall. The event attracted more than 100 undergraduate students interested in learning about ICM’s cutting-edge research...
Natalia Trayanova, ICM Core Faculty, Featured in BME’s ‘Pioneers’ Video Series
Computer models are used in many aspects of daily life, but rarely in medicine. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of biomedical engineering and ICM core faculty, would like to change that. She was recently featured in the Department of Biomedical...