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November 21, 2024
Alumni Spotlight: Erika Moore
Moore uses a tissue model to analyze patients’ immune cells, examining how inflammation varies based on an individual’s environment and body. Her goal as an equity bioengineer is to understand why lupus, an autoimmune disease, disproportionally impacts women of color.
September 16, 2024
BME Design Team’s innovation aims to improve patient outcomes after peripheral nerve damage
The innovation is a set of electrodes designed to work without having to move or lift the nerve during evaluation, promising to reduce patient injury and inaccurate readings.
July 8, 2024
Alumni Spotlight: Peter Shen
Hear from BME alum Peter Shen ’99 about his path to a career in health care technology at Siemens Healthineers.
June 17, 2024
Three Hopkins BME affiliates awarded NSF Fellowships
This program recognizes outstanding graduate student researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, providing approximately 2,000 awardees with three years of financial support.
May 15, 2024
Anson Zhou, ’23, Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University
BME grad will receive up to three years of tuition at Stanford University, along with stipends for living costs, academic expenses, and travel.
April 22, 2024
Two biomedical engineering alumni and one graduate student named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows
One of the most competitive scholarships in the United States, the Soros Fellowship honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
February 26, 2024
Hopkins BME alum Ishan Kalburge awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Kalburge will investigate how humans form internal representations of uncertainty during decision-making.
January 17, 2024
BME alum Renee Liu named Schwarzman Scholar
Liu is among 150 students to receive all expenses for year at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
July 5, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Bhuvan Srinivasan
After a decade of working in investments, alumnus Bhuvan Srinivasan returned to his engineering roots as CBO of the wearable healthtech startup—Ultrahuman.
November 15, 2022
Hopkins BME Alumni Q&A – Korak Sarkar ‘03
In this Q&A, Sarkar shares memories from his time at Hopkins BME, recalls how his professors made an impact on his career, and gives advice to students looking to become biomedical engineers.
November 7, 2022
News Brief: Hopkins BME alum wins 2022 Eppendorf Prize
January 21, 2022
Personalized Treatment for PTSD
Blythe Karow ’02, co-founder and CEO of Evren Technologies, has developed a medical device to treat PTSD by boosting the parasympathetic response to put the user in a more relaxed state.
June 30, 2021
Alaleh Azhir ’19 is researching ways of improving health care delivery for women
When one meets Alaleh Azhir, a Rhodes Scholar and Goldwater Scholar who graduated from Hopkins in 2019 with a perfect GPA, the word "rebel" may not immediately spring to mind. But Azhir's refusal to accept the barriers imposed on her has played a critical role in her path to success—and she wears the mantle of rebel proudly.
October 19, 2020
ClearMask makes and sells 11 million masks internationally
With FDA clearance, maximum barrier protection, and supply chain advantages, the business founded by Johns Hopkins alumni improves the standard of care for patients around the world.
May 8, 2020
Hopkins BME alum Neil Rens wins prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
With a lifelong interest in leadership and service, Johns Hopkins alum Neil Rens has worked to make health care more accessible, merging his biomedical engineering background with medicine and health economics to create new models for health care delivery. This fall, he will take this pursuit to the next level as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University.
December 10, 2019
Alumni Spotlight: Bassil Dahiyat
Bassil Dahiyat, an alum from Hopkins BME, explains how the program helped prepare him for his career in the field of biotechnology.
May 31, 2019
Hipper Hearing
Kevin Franck, MSE ’95, is on a mission to help the world hear better—and that starts, he says, “by changing the perception of everyone around us.”
January 11, 2019
Pathology’s Digital Future
After graduating from Hopkins BME, David West formed his own company with childhood friend Coleman Stavish and fellow engineering student Nathan Buchbinder. Together, the team is advancing the field of digital pathology.
December 18, 2018
From Hopkins to Silicon Valley
Bugrahan Cigdemoglu graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2017 with his bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and computer science. Now working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, Cigdemoglu offers career advice for current students looking to prepare for their future.
December 13, 2018
Weaving a new social fabric
To overcome her sense of isolation, Sarah Hemminger BS '02 PhD '10 sought to connect with the Baltimore community by creating Thread, a volunteer-based support network that is now garnering national attention.
November 28, 2018
Five with ties to Hopkins BME named to ‘Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
Five trailblazers with ties to Johns Hopkins BME who have become leaders in their fields have been named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2019.
March 23, 2018
Meet Bailey Surtees, BME alumna and research assistant
After earning her degree in 2017, Bailey Surtees joined the department as a research assistant to continue advancing her team’s goal of designing a low-cost treatment for breast cancer. In this interview, Surtees talks about the cryoablation project, her experiences in Africa, and the ways in which BME Design Teams shaped her life.
November 30, 2017
BME graduate and team named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list
A four-person team of Johns Hopkins alumni behind the startup Healthify was named to the 2018 Forbes "30 Under 30" list in the health care category.
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.
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 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.
May 18, 2017
BME alumnus launches startup to detect acute kidney injury
For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, kidney injury may be a far thought from their minds. For Aaron Chang ’15, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design within the Department of Biomedical Engineering, that thought has guided him in forming his startup company, Renalert.
October 28, 2016
In It for the Long Haul
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, David Stein had a passion for medicine, science, and engineering, so a major like biomedical engineering seemed exciting. He was also attracted to Johns Hopkins not only for its reputation, but also for the chance to meet its former strength coach, Bill Starr. An avid weightlifter, Stein was drawn to Johns Hopkins for its strong athletic programs and excellent academics. He excelled in both. Stein earned his bachelor's degree in BME in 1997 and stayed to complete a master's degree in 1999 and a PhD in 2001, working in the lab of Gregory Chirikjian.
September 30, 2016
Tissue Analytics wins $50,000 at Beta City
The company is developing a mobile application to help doctors and nurses measure and track wound healing, a process that is typically done using an old-fashioned ruler and visual judgment.
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