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News Brief: Mihaela Pertea named ISCB Fellow

Pertea was recognized for her contributions to transcriptome assembly, most notably as creator of StringTie, a groundbreaking tool that redefined the field when it launched in 2015.

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Synthetic biologist Reza Kalhor receives $250,000 President’s Innovation Award

Kalhor’s research addresses a fundamental challenge in medicine: understanding how early-life biological signals influence disease decades later.

News Brief: Jordan Green wins Clemson Award for Applied Research from Society for Biomaterials

The award honors researchers who apply basic scientific principles to solve critical challenges in biomaterials.

News Brief: Reza Kalhor receives 2026 Lee Hood Prize

This award recognizes and supports innovative research by early career faculty members in the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences by providing them with funding to pursue their most creative ideas.

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Feinberg receives Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research

Feinberg is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Epigenetics in the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences and director of the Division of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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Hicks, Spangler named to AIMBE College of Fellows

Stephanie Hicks and Jamie Spangler honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education.

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Two Johns Hopkins BME researchers named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

Two Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering researchers are among 449 distinguished scholars elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society.

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Winston Timp to lead Multiomics Core in $24M hepatitis B cure effort

Leveraging advanced gene sequencing and proteomics, Timp’s team will map the complex interactions between the virus and the host to drive next-generation treatments.

February 16, 2026

Younan Xia, newest BDP, elected to National Academy of Engineering

Xia was elected for his “research and leadership in the invention and rational development of advanced materials for nanomedicine and regenerative medicine.”

February 5, 2026

Nanomaterials expert Younan Xia joins Johns Hopkins University

The translation into practical applications is a key part of Xia's work, which bridges the gap between laboratory research and real-world solutions, creating nanomaterials that benefit society.

January 29, 2026

Alexis Battle Appointed Wu and Zhang Professor

Battle is the director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the director of research for strategy and partnerships for the Data Science and AI Institute. She specializes in unlocking secrets of the human genome, using machine learning to analyze large-scale genomic sequencing data to understand the impact of genetic variation on the human body.

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December 15, 2025

Biomedical engineer Jamie Spangler receives President’s Frontier Award

Spangler was delightfully surprised with $300,000 in research funding for her groundbreaking work in molecular immunoengineering.

November 25, 2025

Rama Chellappa receives 2025 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award

Chellappa received this award at the 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in recognition of his major contributions to the field of computer vision.

November 19, 2025

News Brief: A bold new approach to autoimmune diseases

Biomedical engineer Jordan Green talks with The Associated Press about his research to alter dysfunctional immune systems.

November 17, 2025

Hopkins BME faculty named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list

Hopkins BME faculty Mihaela Pertea, Steven Salzberg, and Winston Timp were named to Clarivate's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list for pioneering genomics software.

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November 11, 2025

Commentary: mRNA technology has cancer in its sights

'With continued investment in mRNA research, Donald Trump could turn the stalemate against cancer into a decisive breakthrough,' writes Johns Hopkins expert Jeff Coller in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

November 6, 2025

Xiao Yang named MIT Technology Review “Innovator Under 35”

Yang was named to the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia Pacific list in the “Inventors” category.

September 2, 2025

Cancer AI Alliance Named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 AI

The Cancer AI Alliance has been recognized in TIME magazine’s TIME100 AI 2025 for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and cancer research.

Jeremias Sulam appointed the William R. Brody Faculty Scholar

The award supports promising young faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Epidemiologist Derek Cummings returns to Johns Hopkins

Renowned epidemiologist and Johns Hopkins alum Derek Cummings has joined the university as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics.

Meet Xiao Yang, assistant professor of BME

In this Q&A, Yang shares what drives her research, the potential impact she hopes to make, and what excites her most about being a part of the Hopkins community.

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Five from Hopkins BME among research teams to receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

The Discovery Awards are intended to spark new interactions among investigators across the university rather than to support established projects.

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Two from Hopkins BME receive Nexus Awards Program funding

Rama Chellapa and Joel Bader received funding for AI-related projects in the convening category.

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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.

Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association

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

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.

Rachel Karchin elected ISCB Fellow, featured in Nature Magazine

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

NIH award supports research on the behaviors of diseased and healthy cells

Jude Phillip, core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received an R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigator Research Award) award from the National Institutes of Health.

February 19, 2025

Jane Carlton elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

A world-leading geneticist and parasitologist, Carlton was one of 65 scientists elected to the academy this year.

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