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BME News Jeff Siewerdsen and the I-STAR Lab win the 2013 Spine Technology Award October 10, 2013 Rachel Karchin named William R. Brody Faculty Scholar October 7, 2013 Natalia Trayanova, PhD is awarded the 2013 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her project “virtual electrophysiology laboratory” September 30, 2013

Featured Alumni Lawrence Bonassar ‘89 Lawrence Bonassar, BME Class of ’89, co-authored research showing that it is possible to create a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells. According to an article recently published in Bioscience Technology, this “work is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.” Dr. Bonassar adds that “this enables us to rapidly customize implants for whoever needs them.” Read the full story. Sarah Hemminger, Ph.D. ‘02 Sarah Hemminger, BME Class of ’02, is co-founder of the local non-profit Incentive Mentoring Program (“IMP”).  IMP mentors relationships between university-based volunteers and underperforming high school students who are at risk of failing to graduate. In the 2011-2012 academic year, IMP served 95 students with over 400 volunteers. To date 100% of IMP students have received a high school diploma or equivalent degree and 97% of the IMP students have matriculated to college. Read the full story.

Events BME Alumni Reception and Open House BME held its first alumni reception and open house in April, 2013 during Alumni Weekend.  Alumni reconnected with friends, faculty, other alumni and made new connections, while giving us the opportunity to share BME’s many successes. In addition, all seemed very impressed with our featured student design team projects. JHU Alumni Association Be sure to visit the JHU Alumni Association for a list of future alumni events.

About

Welcome to the BME Alumni webpage! The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to thank you, its alumni, for your continued support of BME and JHU. We look forward to using this section of our website to share with you current BME news, events, activities, resources and alumni engagement opportunities as well as periodically featuring our distinguished BME alumni. We recognize that our alumni play a vital role in the continued success of the department and hope that you will use this site as a resource to remain connected.

Mission

Message from the Director

Welcome to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins. The faculty and students in this department have been breaking new ground in biomedical research for over 50 years and we strive to continue this history of innovation and discovery every day. More than 450 undergraduates and over 250 graduate students are enrolled in the Hopkins BME program, preparing themselves for careers in medicine, basic science, and industry. Each year a new class of 120 students from a stellar candidate pool, accept our offer of admission. The academic level of the program is extremely challenging — giving the best and brightest students an opportunity to obtain the most comprehensive training in biomedical engineering available.

For our graduate programs, students are permitted to select any Hopkins faculty as a thesis advisor. We believe that both our students and the Johns Hopkins research mission are served best by placing our students in multidisciplinary teams, and we encourage them to find these opportunities

Our faculty members are world leaders in their respective fields of research which range from theoretical modeling of the machinery of the cell to the fabrication and implantation of engineered tissues in humans. I encourage you to explore the faculty research labs and reviews some of their publications.

You are welcome to come and visit! Baltimore is a great place to live. I came here from Toronto to spend one year at Hopkins — that was in 1988.The exciting research environment and great people make for a wonderful and enriching experience.

If you have any general questions about the department and the programs offered, please contact us today.

 

Alumni Engagement

BME values the engagement of its alumni. The department benefits in many ways from your support.  For example: BME in the Real World provides undergraduate students the opportunity to hear about your experiences and successes since graduating from BME; our Ph.D. students have an opportunity to gain industry knowledge and experience from alumni through the new BME EDGE Center; the BME department, through its Advisory Committee, benefits from the commitment of our alumni committee members; and many of our programs continue to succeed because of your generous financial support. Thank you for your continued support of the BME department. If you are interested in learning more about alumni engagement opportunities, please contact us at bme.alumni@jhu.edu.

BME in the Real World

BME in the Real World is an undergraduate course that is open only to engineering students. This course involves a series of weekly lectures to inform students about careers in biomedical engineering and to discuss technological, social, ethical, legal, and economic issues relevant to the profession.

JHU BME EDGE

BME EDGE is a new departmental center established to invigorate doctoral education by facilitating internships for PhD students and providing professional development training through internships and workshops. For more information on this new center, visit BME EDGE today.

JHU Alumni Association Volunteer Opportunities

The JHU Alumni Association offers many ways for our alumni to become involved with the Johns Hopkins community. To learn more, please visit the alumni association website.

Alumni Communications To help you stay informed of the activities of the BME department and the university, the links to the right offer communication resources. The BME Newsletter In November 2013, BME will launch its inaugural BME Newsletter — stay tuned!

Alumni News Resources Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins News Network

Giving and Support Thank you for your support of the JHU Department of Biomedical Engineering! When you give to Johns Hopkins, you are part of an elite group, one that is allowing Johns Hopkins to take on society’s most intractable problems and medicine’s most complicated cases, and one that will allow Johns Hopkins to continue to serve as a leading catalyst for positive change for generations to come. Make a gift to Johns Hopkins today and begin to transform the world. Ways to Give There are several ways in which you can give. You can write a check, charge your gift using an online giving form (directions to the right), transfer assets such as stocks, bonds, and property, or make a planned or deferred gift through bequests, annuities, and trusts. All of the university’s academic divisions depend on annual gifts, which are spent in the year they are given. There are also a number of ways to give to Johns Hopkins from outside the U.S. If you have any questions or would like more information on how you might support BME through giving, please contact us at 410-614-9154 or bme.alumni@jhu.edu.

Make an Online Gift If you are interested in directing your gift to benefit BME, please indicate this preference with your submission. The Whiting School of Engineering JHU School of Medicine

Contact BME Alumni We welcome your questions or comments and will get back to you as soon as possible. Name:     Email:     Inquiry:

Mailing Address Catherine Schoonover, Business Development Officer Development and Alumni Relations Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering 720 Rutland Avenue Traylor 606 Baltimore, MD 21205 Connect LinkedIn Alumni Group