Feilim Mac Gabhann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Arthur C. Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology by The American Physiological Society. This award recognizes Feilim’s abilities and the strength of his research program. Feilim’s research aims to develop […]
Natalia A. Trayanova, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computational Medicine, is a keynote speaker at the Challenges in Computing meeting in Oslo, Norway, Dec 14-15, 2011. The meeting marks the occasion of 10 years of operation of Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, and focuses on addressing the challenges facing real-life computational applications.
Earlier this year, research by Dr. Rachel Karchin was featured in a case study for the “TGCA in Action” section on the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Genome Atlas website. The article titled “New Tool Combines Many Types of Genomic Data” discusses the TOPPER software tool which is being developed by Dr. Karchin’s lab in a […]
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma was recently highlighted in MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems News Magazine. The story by Katharine Stoel Gammon talks about Dr. Sarma’s work from the time she was a post-doc in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT and how research in the framework of control systems combined with […]
Dr. Rajat Mittal of the Institute for Computational Medicine has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, “For fundamental contributions to the development of immersed boundary methods in computational fluid dynamics and for the understanding of the structure of bluff body wakes, fluid dynamics of locomotion, active flow control, and biomimetics and bioinspired […]
A recently published article in the Johns Hopkins Medicine News and a news story on MSNBC discusses work by the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova at ICM, in collaboration with other researches in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at JHU. The research publication discussed in the Johns Hopkins Medicine news article is entitled […]
The Karchin Lab at the Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University recently released the first of a suite of educational video games developed with outreach support from the National Science Foundation. The BioHazards project “allows students and science enthusiasts to prevent and cure diseases in a virtual, gaming environment. [BioHazards] is focused on the development […]
Dr. Sridevi V. Sarma of the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation award of $2,000,000 for support of the project entitled “EFRI-M3C: Robust Decoder-Compensator Architecture for Interactive Control of High-Speed and Loaded Movements”. The research involves developing a novel model-based Robust Decoder-Compensator […]
Computer models of the human heart created by Trayanova Lab are featured in the latest issue of Scientific American under their ‘Extreme Tech’ category. The article, by Larry Greenemeier, is entitled “Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing” and discusses the new research article entitled “A Computational Model to Predict […]
Hannah Carter, a Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2012 Siebel Scholarship. Students are nominated for the Siebel Scholarship on the basis of academic and research excellence and leadership activity during their graduate school career. The scholarship itself is $35000 to supplement the student’s stipend in their final […]
