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A look back at Design Day 2025

Take a look back at Design Day 2025 with this photo gallery.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association

Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.

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.

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.

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

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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.

PeriAlert device spots early signs of trouble with dental implants

Student innovation aims to improve dental implant success by catching complications early.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Blue arrows point to normal pancreatic ductal mouse cells. Yellow arrows point to cells undergoing acinar-to-ductal metaplasia. Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine

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.

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.

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Johns Hopkins BME graduate programs named No. 1 in the nation by ‘U.S. News’

This marks 33 consecutive years in the top spot.

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.

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.

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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.

Research Matters: Epilepsy relief relies on research

With NIH support, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma develops neurotechnologies to improve understanding and treatment of epilepsy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rachel Karchin elected ISCB Fellow, featured in Nature Magazine

A leading computational biologist, Karchin was recognized for outstanding accomplishments in research and mentorship.

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,...

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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