News & Announcements

Dr. Rai Winslow is honored as the inaugural recipient of the Raj and Neera Singh Professorship

10/04/2010

Dr. Rai Winslow, professor of Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) is honored as the inaugural recipient of the Raj and Neera Singh Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. As director of the ICM, Rai oversees an extraordinary initiative, including faculty, clinicians, researchers, and students from the schools […]

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Rachel Karchin gives keynote speech at RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology

06/26/2010

Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine gave her keynote presentation at the Second Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology. Her topic covered “High throughput annotation of somatic mutations in cancer: computational challenges”. The workshop took place June 24-25, 2010 at The Norwegian Radium Hospital […]

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Course in Dynamical Systems to be offered by ICM this fall

06/04/2010

Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Course number – BME/ME/ECE: 580.616) will be available this fall with Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. The course examines linear, discrete- continuous-time, and multi-input-output systems in control and related areas. Least squares and matrix perturbation problems are considered. […]

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Prof. Don Geman Named Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow

04/01/2010

Don Geman, professor of applied mathematics and statistics, has been named a 2010 Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Don was elected for his contributions to stochastic processes, image analysis, and statistical learning. The 2010 class of Fellows includes 34 individuals who have made significant contributions to the fields of applied […]

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Jason Constantino awarded NRSA grant

03/25/2010

Jason Constantino, a PhD student in Dr. Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a NIH predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). His research project, entitled “Image-based models of electromechanics in normal and failing hearts”, aims to characterize the relation between electrical activation and mechanical contraction in normal and failing hearts under different loading […]

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Dr. Feilim Mac Gabhann awarded the August 2010 Krogh Young Investigator Award

01/25/2010

Feilim has been selected as the August Krogh (1920 Nobelist in Physiology and Medicine) Young Investigator awardee for 2010 by the Microcirculatory Society. The award’s purpose is to encourage excellence in microcirculatory research and is bestowed annually to a young investigator in the early stages of their research career. Congratulations to Feilim on this tremendous […]

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Hermenegild Arevalo awarded a predoctoral NRS Award

01/04/2010

Hermenegild Arevalo, a PhD candidate in Dr. Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI for the project “Image-based models that predict arrhythmia morphology in post-infarction hearts”. The fellowship is for 3 years, starting January 2010. The goal of the project is to examine the ventricular tachycardia reentrant pattern […]

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Software Hunts for Malignant Mutations

12/02/2009

Cancer cells develop lots of mutations, but not all of them are relevant. Finding the 5 percent to 20 percent that are worth studying can be time consuming. Now, a team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed groundbreaking computer software that will help narrow in on those relevant suspects. Rachel Karchin, an assistant professor of […]

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Dr. Natalia Trayanova receives WSE Faculty Scholar Award

10/20/2009

Dr. Natalia Trayanova, professor of biomedical engineering and researcher in the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been named the Whiting School of Engineering’s first William R. Brody Faculty Scholar. Faculty Scholars are named for a three-year term and provide exceptional faculty with flexible financial support to promote their research, teaching activities, and entrepreneurial thinking. Natalia’s […]

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