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 professor of biomedical engineering. We take […]
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 current research on mathematical models of neurological diseases, and the importance of encouraging young women to […]
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 program and the computational medicine minor offered through the Whiting School of Engineering. Founded in 2005 as the first research center […]
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 Engineering’s Pioneers video series for her innovative research in computational cardiology. Using predictive modeling […]
Suchi Saria, ICM core faculty member, is one of four Johns Hopkins faculty to be named Sloan Research Fellows for 2018. Saria who is recognized for creating life-saving computer algorithms that hospital can use to detect and treat sepsis, has a primary appointment in the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of Engineering […]
Rheeda Ali, a postdoctoral fellow working in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been named one of the third annual Johns Hopkins University Provosts’ Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients. Ali is one of eight trainees selected from various divisions of Johns Hopkins for outstanding early career experience and an aptitude for academic leadership. Ali obtained her PhD […]
Sarvenaz Sarabipour, a postdoctoral fellow in the ICM lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been chosen by eLife journal to participate in the 2018 eLife Ambassador program’s early-career advisory group. Sarabipour is among 150 Ambassadors from six continents who were selected to champion improvements in scientific practices and communication. Sarabipour […]
Vignesh Sadras, an fourth year undergraduate in the lab of Raimond Winslow, Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been accepted to The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s MD program for the fall of 2018. Sadras, whose research interests include health disparities and integrative medicine, aspires to care for medically underserved patients and help them cultivate […]
Christina (Christy) Pickering, a second year PhD student at the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been accepted to the Medical Scientist Training Program, a combined MD-PhD program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Christy is among a select group of students who were accepted to the highly competitive program which receives an average of 514 […]
Sridevi Sarma, Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, is the co-editor of a newly published book titled, Dynamic Neuroscience: Statistics, Modeling, and Control that sheds new light on the field of neuroscience. The book, co-edited with Zhe Chen, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Physiology at New York University School […]
