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October 24, 2017
Four BME graduate students named Siebel Scholars
Four graduate students in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering have been named Siebel Scholars, a prestigious award honoring nearly 100 of the top graduate students in business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science programs.
Michael Miller smiles for the camera.
October 11, 2017
Miller Opens 2017 BMES Annual Meeting with Vision for New BME Era
Michael I. Miller, director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, opened the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ on October 11 by unveiling a plan for a new era of biomedical science discovery to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Rene Vidal
October 10, 2017
Developing the next generation of blood tests
Rene Vidal is part of a research effort that is working to make the average blood test more convenient.
3-D printed heart models are shown.
October 9, 2017
3-D Printing Models of Human Organs
It was summer 2016 when a Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon began collaborating with a graduate student on a peculiar puzzle: Could they produce a three-dimensional model of a baby's heart?
October 9, 2017
BME alumnus inducted into Bakken Society
With 13 years of Johns Hopkins training, Patrick Helm joins a society honoring those who achieve the highest level of scientific accomplishment at Medtronic.
October 6, 2017
Undergrads kick off the semester with Design Sprint challenge
Students were challenged to design solutions to improve hand hygiene in high- and low-resource settings.
Sridevi Sarma
October 5, 2017
Sarma promoted to associate director of ICM
It’s been less than one month since biomedical engineering associate professor Sridevi Sarma was promoted to associate director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, and she’s already got big plans.
October 5, 2017
Johns Hopkins co-organizes first international meeting on brain health
UNOPS and Johns Hopkins co-organized an international conference with the Chinese Brain Tissue Library Cooperation Alliance and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Neurology Center.
Students demonstrate their devices outside.
October 4, 2017
Freshmen compete in annual foam core challenge
Moving a Ping-Pong ball three meters may sound like a simple task, but a group of Johns Hopkins freshmen biomedical engineering students learned first-hand that sometimes the simplest task can be the most difficult.
September 27, 2017
Johns Hopkins undergrads among finalists in annual Collegiate Inventors Competition
The AssistENT team, formed by biomedical engineering majors during the 2016-17 school year, is one of six undergraduate finalists that will compete for top honors and prizes worth up to $10,000 during the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.
September 27, 2017
Salzberg and Timp among research collaboration to sequence the Redwood genome
Steven Salzberg and Winston Timp are among the researchers from Johns Hopkins collaborating with the University of California, Davis, and the Save the Redwoods League in an ambitious plan to fully sequence the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes for the first time.
Natalia Trayanova smiles at the camera.
September 21, 2017
Natalia Trayanova elected as a Fellow of IAMBE
The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering has elected Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as a Fellow of IAMBE.
Sridevi Sarma
September 21, 2017
Sridevi Sarma receives L’Oréal’s Changing the Face of STEM mentoring grant
Sridevi Sarma, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is one of 10 recipients of the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Program’s Changing the Face of STEM mentoring grants.
Sridevi Sarma
September 7, 2017
How does our brain function when we gamble?
Sridevi Sarma and her team conducted an experiment that let them peek into subjects' brains as they gambled.
September 5, 2017
CBID students spend the summer with clinicians around the world
Every summer, students from the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design travel to some of the world’s most underserved communities and work side by side with primary care providers. They assess patient and provider needs, and design the next generation of medical devices.
A male student demonstrates the device in the Design Studio.
September 1, 2017
Undergrads bring home three awards from NIH DEBUT Challenge
Undergraduate design teams in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design won three awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge.
August 25, 2017
Hopkins entrepreneurs, alums land on Baltimore ’40 Under 40′ list
Three from Hopkins BME just landed on the '40 Under 40' list published by the Baltimore Business Journal.
August 10, 2017
Mapping the Brain, Neuron by Neuron
Researchers in the Center for Imaging Science have taken an early step towards mapping how all animal brains work.
August 9, 2017
CBID students travel to Brazil, China, India, and Uganda
Follow our CBID master's students this summer as they travel to remote regions of the globe to study health care delivery in foreign environments.
Lina Reiss sits in the lab wearing a white coat.
August 7, 2017
Sounds of Progress
Lina Reiss’ research could one day help her hear voices better amid background noise. Reiss, PhD ’05, was believed to...
July 27, 2017
Proscia is Teaching Computers to Beat Cancer
For 150 years, pathologists have used glass slides and microscopes to analyze tissue samples, understand cancer and determine the best course of treatments. One Baltimore startup, however, is ushering this process and the whole field of pathology into an era of computational pathology.
July 21, 2017
NIH Funds JHU Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Computational Medicine
The Institute for Computational Medicine has received federal funding for its Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Computational Medicine, which will support trainees from the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
Natalia Trayanova addresses the crowd during her TEDx talk.
July 19, 2017
Natalia Trayanova gives TEDx talk at Johns Hopkins
Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of biomedical engineering, recently gave a TEDx talk at Johns Hopkins discussing her lab’s efforts to develop personalized virtual hearts.
July 19, 2017
Learning to Think Like a Clinician and Function Like a Startup
Medical student David Gullotti recently finished his master's degree with CBID. Take a look at his year-long journey that took him from the clinic, to India, to the lab, and back again.
July 14, 2017
Inez Lam selected for new Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program
Last year, Johns Hopkins University and MedImmune announced their collaboration on a unique initiative to prepare students for a career in the biopharma industry. The first two PhD candidates have been selected.
July 10, 2017
Three from BME receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
Three faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering have been selected to receive support this year from the Johns Hopkins University’s Discovery Awards program.
July 5, 2017
Defining the ‘Gold Standard’
A team of Johns Hopkins computational scientists and cancer experts devised its own bioinformatics software to evaluate how well current strategies identify cancer-promoting mutations and distinguish them from benign mutations in cancer cells.
June 29, 2017
Michael Miller named new director of Department of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Miller, PhD, has been selected as the next director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective July 1. 
June 23, 2017
Nitish Thakor receives EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award
Nitish Thakor, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Academic Career Achievement Award.
June 12, 2017
Using T-Cells to encourage tissue regeneration
Most people know immune cells as the first responders to trauma—killing bacteria, fungi, viruses and other invaders—but there is a hidden side, as well. Immune cells also repair the body. They are both killers and healers.

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