Rising Stars workshop puts the achievements of women researchers in the spotlight
Many scientists could advance their careers if they could just get the hang of storytelling. Impact statements that describe how their research improves people’s lives could help researchers secure funding,...
Do Robot Swarms Work Like Brains?
...navigation will enable the kinds of tasks that society will be increasingly asking robots to perform — disaster relief and search and rescue, in addition to research and defense applications....
AssistENT wins $10,000 ‘Use It!’ Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
...Program, conducting neuroimmunology research. She also worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Mao Research Group, studying and developing nanoparticles for vaccine delivery. She now works...
Miller Opens 2017 BMES Annual Meeting with Vision for New BME Era
...search. He is an international leader in medical imaging and brain mapping, having pioneered the field of computational anatomy as a modern theory of human anatomical shape and form. He...
Chemical found in medical devices impairs heart function
A BME researcher’s personal experience after cardiac surgery motivated a search for the cause of some common side effects of heart surgery. Artin Shoukas, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, physiology...
Undergraduate Design Team
...addressing a significant clinical or research need. Teams identify projects in the Spring semester, before the Design Team academic year, and work on their projects for approximately 18 months. Team...
CRISPR gene cuts may offer new way to chart human genome
In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully used the gene cutting tool CRISPR...
With Covaid, neighbors support neighbors during the pandemic
...pet care, technology on loan, even emotional support. They also indicate times they’re available and whether they have access to a car. When community members in need of services search...
Got fatigue? Study further pinpoints brain regions that may control it
...with depression, multiple sclerosis and stroke. Results of the research were published online Aug. 12 in Nature Communications. “We know the physiologic processes involved in fatigue, such as lactic acid...
New Color-Coded Test Quickly Reveals If Medical Nanoparticles Deliver Their Payload
...testing tool, engineered specifically to test nanoparticles, could advance the search for next-generation biological medicines. The technology builds upon nanoparticles currently used against cancer and eye disease, and in vaccines...
Alexis Battle receives President’s Frontier Award
...Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Both researchers will receive $250,000 to pursue new lines of research, expand their laboratories, or support their lab members. “Let me take this moment...
Stasys
...as recognized by the American Diabetic Association. However, very few patients qualify for surgical treatment and are willing to accept the risks inherent to the invasive procedure. Research over the...
Johns Hopkins and Amazon collaborate to explore transformative power of AI
...support a broad range of activities, including annual fellowships for doctoral students; research projects led by Hopkins Engineering faculty in collaboration with post-doctoral researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and research...
Can we trust AI?
...search algorithm. Some people are wary of this kind of thing, saying, “Oh, no, it’s tracking me and controlling me,” but really they’re just suggestions. They’re not forcing you to...
Hopkins BME alum Ishan Kalburge awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
...was driven to search for ways to help him. At Hopkins, Kalburge sought further understanding by pursuing a triple major in biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, and economics. Through this interdisciplinary...