ICM Graduate student Hannah Carter has been awarded a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for breast cancer research. Hannah will build a computational model to identify weak links in the PI3K/AKT pathway that can serve as drug targets in the prevention of breast cancer progression and metastasis and investigate the mechanisms […]

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The ICM announces the second annual Raj and Neera Singh Summer Undergraduate Fellowship. The Institute will sponsor competitive non-credit summer research fellowships for Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students in the Whiting School of Engineering.

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ICM Graduate Student An-Chi Wei receives “Student Research Achievement Award, Bio-Energetics Subgroup” for her research poster entitled “Modeling of Mitochondrial Energetics and Ion Dynamics”. This poster was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society at Long Beach, CA.

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The NHLBI will support proposals for federating software tools or data sets through the CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG) infrastructure. PAR Announcement  

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On August 7, the Institute for Computational Medicine moved into its home in the newly constructed Computational Sciences and Engineering Building at the JHU Homewood campus. Located on the second and third floor of CSEB, this new space provides the ICM space for new faculty, students, and staff. The space also includes a state of […]

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Stephen Granite, Director of Database/Software Development for the CCBM, recently presented at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007. The title of his talk was “The Cardiovascular Research Grid: A National Infrastructure for Representing, Sharing, Analyzing and Modeling Cardiovascular Data.” The Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG) will develop tools for representing, managing and sharing multi-scale data related […]

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ICM Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Siamak Ardekani has received a prestigious American Heart Association Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Research Committee of the AHA. His research project is entitled “Algorithms for Detecting Changes in Heart Shape and Motion That Are Indicative of Disease State and Arrhythmia Risk” and he will be mentored jointly by Drs. Michael […]

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Ann Kennedy will be mentored by Dr. Michael Miller and Dr. Tilak Ratnanather. Her project will focus on computational neuroanatomy. Ann is a rising junior in the Biomedical Engineering program with a minor in Biology. Timothy Law will be mentored by Dr. Raimond Winslow and Dr. Joseph Greenstein. His project’s focus is computational modeling of […]

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The short course “Integrative Models of the Cardiac Myocyte” will train biomedical researchers and clinician-scientists in how to develop and apply biophysically- and biochemically-detailed, experimentally-based computational models of the cardiac myocyte. Emphasis will be on modular development and testing of models using experimental data, numerical methods for solving model equations, mathematical techniques for developing and […]

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Supported by an $8.5 million federal grant from NIH/NHLBI, leading researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on heart-related illnesses. The project, called the Cardiovascular Research Grid, is expected to be a boon to the large community […]

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