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June 20, 2013

Johns Hopkins students win two top awards in national biomedical engineering contest

Johns Hopkins BME student-built devices — a blood clot detection system and a concealable, hands-free breast pump — have won two of the top three awards in a national contest.

March 21, 2013

Low-cost cooling cure could avert brain damage in oxygen-starved babies

Biomedical engineering undergraduate team designs “Cooling Cure” device in an effort to prevent brain damage in oxygen-deprived newborns.

December 20, 2012

Maryland innovation initiative invests in Johns Hopkins biomedical projects

Nearly $300,000 has been awarded to to three Johns Hopkins-related projects that hold promise for ushering new medical devices to the marketplace.

November 13, 2012

Future of Suture device wins $12,500 inventors prize for Johns Hopkins students

A Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team has won first prize for their disposable suturing tool used to guide the placement of stitches and guard against the accidental puncture of internal organs.

November 1, 2012

Computational medicine begins to enhance the way doctors detect and treat disease

Trained in mathematics, computer science, engineering and biology, researchers are designing computational models of human anatomical systems enhances the way doctors detect and treat disease.

September 10, 2012

Five Johns Hopkins engineering doctoral students named 2013 Siebel Scholars

Johns Hopkins graduate students have received recognition for the advances they are making in biology and technology in the prevention and treatment of health problems such as cancer, cardiac disorders and sexually transmitted diseases.

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