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May 15, 2025
A look back at Design Day 2025
Take a look back at Design Day 2025 with this photo gallery.
May 14, 2025
Precision care student projects use machine learning to improve health outcomes
In the department's Precision Care Medicine course, students work with clinical faculty at Johns Hopkins Medicine to learn how to use machine learning and mechanistic and statistical modeling to develop novel data-driven solutions for important health care problems in critical care, neurology, immunology, cardiovascular care, and more.
May 12, 2025
A game-changing gait lab in a shoe
Junjen Chen and Anway Pimpalkar are leading a team aiming to make gait analysis as simple as putting on one's shoes.
May 9, 2025
Natalia Trayanova elected to board of the Heart Rhythm Society
Trayanova has pioneered the development of patient heart digital twins and deep learning approaches to predict risk of cardiac arrest and the precise delivery of catheter ablation.
May 7, 2025
Biomedical engineering design teams take top prizes at HopStart 2025
Two teams from the Department of Biomedical Engineering walked away with prizes in the competition’s main categories.
May 6, 2025
Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association
Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.
May 2, 2025
Senior Dalhart Dobbs selected as Johns Hopkins student Commencement speaker
Dobbs, a leading member of the Blue Key Society and former Student Government Association Senate president, will address his fellow graduates on May 22.
April 30, 2025
Research Matters: Research cuts imperil critical insights into the underlying causes of age-related falls
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among seniors in the United States. Johns Hopkins researcher Kathleen Cullen studies our 'silent sense,' the vestibular system in our inner ear integral to maintaining balance.
April 30, 2025
Are ‘zombie’ skin cells harmful or helpful? The answer may be in their shapes
Johns Hopkins researchers identified three types of zombie skin cells; only one gets worse with age
April 29, 2025
Act Fast: Assessing hemorrhagic shock in pediatric patients
A team of undergrads has developed ShockSense, a device that analyzes real-time vitals to identify signs of shock and suggest treatment procedures—streamlining care while clinicians focus on delivering life-saving interventions.
April 28, 2025
PeriAlert device spots early signs of trouble with dental implants
Student innovation aims to improve dental implant success by catching complications early.
April 24, 2025
Back on the gridiron: VR helps athletes safely return to play following concussion
Designed by Johns Hopkins undergrads, new virtual reality game tests athletes for concussion and helps determine when they should resume play.
April 22, 2025
Alumni Spotlight: Clay Andrews
For his Design Day project, Clay Andrews, Engr ’17, created a non-surgical medical device to treat nasal obstruction. His innovative solution to a common problem went on to become a commercially available product that led to the creation of Hale, a company that sells that device as an over-the-counter breathing aid.
April 21, 2025
More than meets the eye: Stabilizing nystagmus symptoms with AI-powered smart glasses
A student team in the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Design Team course is creating smart glasses to help patients with nystagmus, a condition causing involuntary, repetitive eye movements.
April 15, 2025
There’s a shortage of entomologists. AI can help.
In an evolutionary paradox, one of the world's most ancient predators might meet its match in one of humankind's most modern advances: mosquito vs. artificial intelligence.
April 15, 2025
Pancreatic cells remember epigenetic precancerous marks without genetic sequence mutations
Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic “marks” in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a temporary “memory” of those cancer-linked marks.
April 9, 2025
Research Matters: America’s med tech pipeline is fueled by federal support
An NIH-funded partnership between Johns Hopkins and Howard University speeds the development of medical devices addressing neurological disorders that affect more than a billion people.
April 8, 2025
Johns Hopkins BME graduate programs named No. 1 in the nation by ‘U.S. News’
This marks 33 consecutive years in the top spot.
April 7, 2025
Hopkins BME undergrad Lance Xu awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Xu wants to devote his career to investigating the mechanisms behind cancer cell progression to find common biomarkers that can lead to more precise and effective therapies.
April 3, 2025
Jamie Spangler wins two awards for early career contributions
A pioneering investigator in protein engineering, Spangler was recognized for her work designing new technologies to interrogate and manipulate the immune system at the protein level.
April 1, 2025
Two Hopkins BME faculty named to AIMBE College of Fellows
Mihaela Pertea and Sri Sarma honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education.
March 31, 2025
Research Matters: Epilepsy relief relies on research
With NIH support, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma develops neurotechnologies to improve understanding and treatment of epilepsy.
March 24, 2025
Microscopic to Macroscopic: How changes to our immune cells shape how we age
Now a fourth year PhD student in biomedical engineering, LaDaisha Thompson is studying how our immune system influences cell aging and she is looking for ways to define and measure that influence.
March 20, 2025
Research Matters: America’s support for cutting-edge research is a smart investment
Federal funding for biomedical research pays off by enabling basic discoveries that lead to lifesaving treatments, writes Jeff Coller, whose lab is developing new ways to treat rare genetic diseases.
March 18, 2025
Research Matters: Engineering the future of diabetes treatment
Biomedical engineer Joshua Doloff uses federal funding to pioneer immunotherapies that could free diabetes patients from insulin dependence.
March 17, 2025
Research Matters: Earlier, better treatments for Alzheimer’s
Federally funded research at Johns Hopkins offers new avenues for detecting brain disease long before it strikes.
March 12, 2025
Scientists design experimental protein booster for rare genetic diseases
Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels of specific cellular proteins.
March 12, 2025
Rachel Karchin elected ISCB Fellow, featured in Nature Magazine
A leading computational biologist, Karchin was recognized for outstanding accomplishments in research and mentorship.
March 7, 2025
Research Matters: Science is worth standing up for
What if 30% of the medicines you and your loved ones depend on were never invented? Between 2001 and 2019,...
March 6, 2025
Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching, grasps like a human
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers pioneer a bionic hand that carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.
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