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JHU BME faculty member Dr. David T. Yue and members of the Calcium Signals Laboratory publish a study in Nature Communications that uncovers the molecular mechanism of Ca; regulation of Calcium channels.

Biomedical engineering undergraduate team designs “Cooling Cure” device in an effort to prevent brain damage in oxygen-deprived newborns.

An internship and professional development center is funded for JHU BME grad students who wish to pursue careers in industry, entrepreneurship and consulting.

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

JHU BME alumnus Lawrence Bonassar uses a 3-D printer and injections of living cells to create a replacement ear.

JHU BME CBID graduate students and faculty hike to the top of Pulpit Rock in Stavanger, Norway during Global Health rotations.

JHU BME student places first in the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society research poster competition. Abstract published in The Pharmacologist, research paper published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry.

Rachel Karchin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, BME and ICM, is awarded a $695,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Advances in Biological Informatics program.

A recent TTEC clinical study shows that patients who received a hydrogel scaffolding implant after the surgical repair of damaged cartilage experienced reduced pain and greater tissue growth.

IEEE Control System Society awards Roberto Tron, CIS Ph.D. graduate, the 2012 Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled “Intrinsic Consensus on SO(3) with Almost-Global Convergence.”

Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan has been awarded a $100,000 Heart Research Grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. Funds will be used to further Dr. Vadakkumpadan’s research on an alternative to clinical arrhythmia inducibility tests.

JHU BME graduate student, Stephany Tzeng, receives the 2013 Student Award for Outstanding Research for her research that finds polymeric nanoparticles may be a promising strategy in liver cancer treatment.

JHU CIS and BME graduate student Benjamín Béjar, has been awarded the 2012 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Intervention Systems from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society.

The 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition awards the Johns Hopkins team $12,500 for their work with the FastStitch device.

Two projects that emerged from the JHU BME Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) will receive almost $100,000 each to continue project development.

Dongwon Lee, a graduate student in the BME Ph.D. program, was recently honored by RECOMB for authoring one the top 10 influential papers of 2011 in the fields of systems biology and regulatory genomics.

BMES selects undergraduate award recipients on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.

BME graduate student in the JHU School of Medicine has been selected as one of the recipients of the Johns Hopkins 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in recognition for outstanding commitment to community service.

Sarah E. Hemminger, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering graduate, receives recognition and press coverage for her community contributions.

FastStitch, a disposable suturing device that guides placement of stitches, and HemoGlobe, a device that transforms a cellphone into a prick-free hemoglobin screening device are capturing media attention.

Jordan J. Green, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute, JHU School of Medicine is honored by award from the Maryland Academy of Sciences and the Maryland Science Center.

The American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant was awarded to Dr. Fijoy Vadakkumpadan of the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Teams Johns Hopkins -- Software and Wetware, secured a win at iGEM 2012, a worldwide Synthetic Biology competition for undergrads.

The report was written collaboratively by Johns Hopkins Institute of Computational Medicine director Raimond L. Winslow, along with three other Johns Hopkins professors affiliated with the Institute.

Five Johns Hopkins bioengineering graduate students were named to the 2013 class of Siebel Scholars. Each student will receive $35,000 for use in his or her final year of graduate studies.

FastStitch, a suturing device developed by BME undergraduates, was selected as the winner in the therapeutic devices category of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering DEBUT Challenge.

JHU BME postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD alumni Kelvin Liu has been awarded funds to commercialize technologies originally developed during his PhD and postdoctoral research under Prof. Tza-Huei Wang.

On Monday, September 24, over 50 members of the Hopkins research community met in the Chevy Chase Conference Center at the newly constructed Zayed Tower, Johns Hopkins Hospital to hold the first Symposium on Computational Medicine.

Associate Professor René Vidal has been awarded the 2012 J.K. Aggarwal Prize for technical contributions of far-reaching significance and impact on the field of pattern recognition or its closely allied fields.

Jennifer Elisseeff, Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center, has been working...