Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine was featured in a recent news release on the Johns Hopkins University News website. The article, entitled “Researchers Aim to Use Light—Not Electric Jolts—to Restore Healthy Heartbeats” was released on August 28 along with publication of the […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine was featured in a recent news release on the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center website. The article, entitled “‘Virtual Heart’ Precision-Guides Defibrillator Placement in Children with Heart Disease” describes the Trayanova lab’s groundbreaking research in pediatric cardiology. The […]

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Hermenegild Arevalo, a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, was chosen as one of the finalists in the Young Investigator Competition at the 2013 International Congress on Electrocardiology held in Glasgow, Scotland from August 7-10. This honor is an amazing achievement for Hermenegild, who was competing against applicants from all over the […]

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The Johns Hopkins Individualized Health Initiative (Hopkins inHealth) aims to develop and implement novel methods and tools to intelligently use information to individualize wellness, early disease detection, and more effective and affordable treatment. It is a University-wide, collaborative venture that is both visionary and pragmatic. The initiative builds on dramatic advances over recent years in […]

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Sabato Santaniello, a scientist in the lab of Dr. Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Computational Medicine, recently received an award of $150K for 2 years from the National Science Foundation. The award, which is part of the NSF’s “Energy, Power, and Adaptive Systems” program is entitled “EAGER: Modeling Network Dynamics in the […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine was featured in “SIAM Connect”, The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ news site. The article, The beat goes on: Modeling the human heart is under the rubric “Explaining Applied Math Research”, and is based on the […]

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Dr. Sridevi Sarma, presented at the 2013 SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems. The conference was held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah, USA, from May 19-23. Dr. Sarma’s presentation was entitled “On the Therapeutic Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Annihilation or Restoration?” […]

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The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) have selected the best paper published in Medical Physics in 2012 — “Effects of protocol and obesity on dose conversion factors in adult body CT.” This honor will be marked with receipt of the prestigious Farrington Daniels Award, which is bestowed yearly to the authors of the […]

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Natalia A. Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, presented a keynote lecture at the 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The conference was held on July 3-7 in Osaka, Japan. Natalia’s presentation entitled “Modeling Heart Function and Dysfunction” was scheduled for […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova of the Institute for Computational Medicine was recently featured in the Johns Hopkins Medicine ‘Dome’ Newsletter for her contributions to cardiology research. The article, entitled “Mapping the Heart”, discusses her work towards creating “a model of the heart that would work like Google Maps” through the study of its electrical and mechanical […]

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