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In an interview with Johns Hopkins Medicine, Razavi shared details of her journey to become a biomedical engineer, the mentors who helped her pursue this career path, and the importance of supporting women in STEM.

John Hickey, doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, created Tcrunch, an app that facilitates real-time feedback and gives students a stronger voice in the classroom.

Inez Lam and Natalia Majewska were the first two students selected to participate in the Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program and have recently begun their research projects.

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.

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.

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.

Two students have been awarded 2017 Whitaker International Fellowships, a career-enhancing program that supports young biomedical engineers’ travels overseas to conduct research and take coursework.

Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering will be home to six new Graduate Research Fellows – outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, or math graduate programs who have been recognized by the National Science Foundation.

Michael Ketcha, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, has won the Young Scientist Award at the 2017 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in Orlando, Florida for his paper entitled "Fundamental limits of image registration performance: effects of image noise and resolution in CT-guided interventions."

As they work toward medical breakthroughs for disease treatment and surgery, five engineering graduate students from Johns Hopkins University have won key support for their research through the prestigious Siebel Scholars program.

Randall is currently working under Dr. Jordan Green, seeking novel biomaterial-based particle therapeutics that mimic the function of natural cells to achieve a therapeutic effect.

Their GEAR bio-gaming device was created to serve as an assistive computer interface for individuals with limited upper limb functionality to participate in video game play by transferring dexterous control from the hands to the feet.

Each spring, at the Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day celebration, exceptional graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are honored, and awards are granted in recognition of outstanding research.

Congratulations to Sean Murphy, Yuan Rui, and Joseph Yu. These NSF Graduate Research Fellows have demonstrated significant research achievements and have great potential to propel future innovation.

The MIND Demons MRI to CT registration method for 3D image-guided spine surgery could facilitate safer surgery — with increased precision and targeting confidence.

Qian Cao has won a 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship for his research that involves the development of new methods for high-resolution imaging and assessment of bone health.

Jen’s research involves breakthrough work in modeling the imaging performance of new x-ray photon counting detectors. Her image quality model gives analytical insight into the benefits of photon counting, low electronics noise, and the potential for high-quality x-ray spectral imaging.

Graduate student Sohail Zahid has been awarded a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The selection was based on Sohail’s demonstrated potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise.

Sohail Zahid, a graduate student in the Computational Cardiology Lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, has been awarded the Johns Hopkins University’s 2015–2016 ARCS Foundation Scholarship.

Research skills, academic achievements, and leadership qualities are among the qualifications evaluated in selecting Siebel Scholars each year. Five Johns...

The $43,000 annual award will support her research efforts to develop diffusion MRI methods to probe brain microstructural changes during brain development and injury.

This PhD candidate finds a summer internship at Genetech that mirrors his Johns Hopkins lab research. The role was found through BME EDGE —a program that enables students to explore job possibilities and refine career goals.

The Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award is presented at Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day — which celebrates the achievements of Johns Hopkins students, postdocs and research fellows.

The prestigious ARCS Foundation Scholarship provides $15,000 for education and research to support select, extraordinary graduate students.

This award recognizes outstanding performance as a graduate teaching assistant in the Whiting School of Engineering.

In recognition of their research skills, academic achievements and leadership qualities, five Johns Hopkins PhD students were selected to be honored as 2014 Siebel Scholars.

EchoSure System and Gala Pump awarded first and third place, respectively, in the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Awards competition.

JHU's PII awarded MEP seed funding of $125,000 to support its new initiative to bring scientific/medical ideas into the commercial world.

Kathleen McDowell, JHU BME graduate student, wins poster competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.