David Masica, assistant research professor of Biomedical Engineering, received the prize for top oral presentation in the area of Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Tumors at United European Gastroenterology’s October meeting in Barcelona, Spain for his talk entitled, “Discriminating Pancreatic Cyst Type and Grade Using Clinical Criteria: The Results of a Large Retrospective Cohort.” Dave’s […]
Science Friday will feature collaborative research from the labs of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, and Dr. Victor Velculescu, professor of Oncology and co-director of Cancer Biology, on October 2. The Nature paper entitled “The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer” focuses on computational […]
Christopher Douville and Noushin Niknafs, fifth year BME PhD students in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, have both been selected to present at this year’s American Society of Human Genetic Annual Meeting (ASHG), to be held October 6-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Christopher’s presentation, […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, is featured in the winter 2015 edition of The Johns Hopkins Whiting School’s Engineering Magazine. “Pinpointing Cystic Fibrosis Severity” focuses on research in Dr. Karchin’s lab towards predicting the severity of individual’s likely symptoms of cystic fibrosis […]
The lab of William R. Brody Faculty Scholar Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, has collaborated with bioinformatics software firm inSilico Solutions and the UC Santa Cruz Ebola Genome Portal to develop MuPIT Ebola Edition, a free, browser-based online tool that enables researchers to visualize Ebola gene mutations in […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) for a three year term. The mission of the HGVS is “To enhance human health through identification and characterization of changes in the […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has received a joint appointment in the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as membership in the Cancer Biology Program at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. These affiliations recognize Dr. Karchin’s productive […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been named the Whiting School of Engineering’s William R. Brody Faculty Scholar. Faculty Scholars are named for a three-year term and provide exceptional faculty with flexible financial support to advance their research, teaching activities, and entrepreneurial thinking. Rachel’s […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, has received funding for a new research project cooperative agreement from the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Initiative (ITCR) of the National Cancer Institute. The mission of the ITCR is “to support innovative investigator-initiated research-driven informatics technology development to […]
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 […]
