On January 27, 2016, the Institute for Computational Medicine will host its second annual Computational Medicine Night. Through research presentations by ICM undergraduates, lab tours, poster presentations, and a panel discussion, Hopkins undergrads will learn about the array of research and academic opportunities available to them in this emerging field. Undergrads will also have the opportunity […]
Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, alongside Dr. Katherine Wu, Associate Professor of Cardiology, have received funding for their joint proposal to the Johns Hopkins Individualized Health Initiative (Hopkins inHealth). The project, entitled “Personalized Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death Using Cardiac MRI and Virtual Heart […]
The Heart: from Images to Models (Course number – EN.580.205) will be available during the 2016 intersession under the direction of Farhad Pashakhanloo, BME PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty. The course will provide an overview of cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology, along with the […]
A new Scientific Reports paper featuring the work of Murray B. Sachs Professor Natalia Trayanova and Assistant Research Professor Patrick M. Boyle, both core faculty of the Institute for Computational Medicine, shares research findings that use optogenetic tools to help identify effective biological therapies for improved cardiac function (as opposed to use of implants such as […]
A paper from the lab of William R. Brody Faculty Scholar Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has been named one of the best translational bioinformatics articles of the past year by the American Medical Informatics Association at their AMIA 2015 Year-in-Review Sessions, held recently in San Francisco. The […]
David Masica, assistant research professor of Biomedical Engineering, received the prize for top oral presentation in the area of Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Tumors at United European Gastroenterology’s October meeting in Barcelona, Spain for his talk entitled, “Discriminating Pancreatic Cyst Type and Grade Using Clinical Criteria: The Results of a Large Retrospective Cohort.” Dave’s […]
Science Friday will feature collaborative research from the labs of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, and Dr. Victor Velculescu, professor of Oncology and co-director of Cancer Biology, on October 2. The Nature paper entitled “The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer” focuses on computational […]
The Kavli Foundation and its university partners announced today the founding of three new neuroscience research institutes, including one at Johns Hopkins University. The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at Johns Hopkins will be directed by Dr. Richard Huganir, professor and director of the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-directed […]
Christopher Douville and Noushin Niknafs, fifth year BME PhD students in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, have both been selected to present at this year’s American Society of Human Genetic Annual Meeting (ASHG), to be held October 6-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Christopher’s presentation, […]
Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented a keynote lecture at The Ohio State University Dorothy M. Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute’s (DHLRI) 10th Annual Research Day. As DHLRI’s named Charles and Barbara Webb Keynote Speaker this year, Natalia delivered a lecture entitled “Your […]
