News & Announcements

ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives “BMES Student Travel Award”

09/29/2009

ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei has received the “BMES Student Travel Award” for the Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society. She will be presenting her poster “Modeling and Experimental Studies of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics” in the “Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” track. The conference is being held this year October 7-10 in Pittsburgh, […]

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Computational process zeroes in on top genetic cancer suspects

09/04/2009

ICM Faculty Dr. Rachel Karchin and and Ph.D. Graduate Student Hannah Carter have been featured in the JHU Gazette for their work published in the August 15 issue of Cancer Research. “Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most […]

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ICM Announces Appointment of Dr. Rajat Mittal

08/26/2009

The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Rajat Mittal as a core faculty member. Dr. Rajat Mittal is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He received the B. Tech. degree in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1989, the M.S. […]

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2009 NHLBI-T15 Short Course successfully concludes another year

08/05/2009

The 2009 NHLBI T15 Short Course on Integrative Computational Modeling of the Cardiac Myocyte, held July 20-24 at the Mt. Washington Conference Center, was a resounding success. The course was taught by a team of three ICM faculty and five graduate students. Fifteen participants, including engineering faculty, physicians, and graduate students came together to learn […]

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ICM Announces Appointment of 2 New Faculty Members

05/06/2009

The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members, Dr. Feilim Mac Gabhann and Dr. Sridevi Sarma. Feilim Mac Gabhann received a BE (Chemical Engineering) from University College Dublin in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He went on to work […]

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Two Hopkins BME Undergraduates win JHU PURA Awards

04/16/2009

Carolyn J. Park and BaoLuo Sun have been selected to receive the Summer 2009 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award. Carolyn and Baoluo will work with ICM faculty Drs. Natalia Trayanova and Raimond Winslow, respectively. Their projects were chosen by a faculty selection committee from a large group of outstanding proposals. The PURA program affords Johns Hopkins […]

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Grace Tan receives 2008 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

04/06/2009

Grace Tan is the recipient of one of the 2008 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards. She will give a presentation discussing her research on Thursday, April 9, in the Glass Pavilion. Grace’s project involved studying life-threatening irregular beats in patients with a common condition called heart failure. She worked with Drs. Trayanova and Winslow. To learn […]

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Grace Tan receives first prize in competition at Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmias Mechanisms

03/04/2009

Grace Tan, a senior in the BME undergraduate program, received first prize (tissue-level category) in the trainee poster competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmias Mechanisms, held in Il Ciocco, Barga, Italy, Feb. 15-20, 2009. Grace was the *only* undergraduate student participant in this conference (out of 160 participants). The trainee competition included […]

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Dr. Vidal receives Sloan Research Fellowship

02/19/2009

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

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