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November 26, 2024
Johns Hopkins team awarded funding for noninvasive anemia test
The 1.7M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help researchers to develop a low-cost, point-of-care tool for anemia screening.
A graphic shows the quantitative systems pharmacology based biomarker discovery
October 30, 2024
Computational tool developed to predict immunotherapy outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer
Using computational tools, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer could benefit from immunotherapy.
October 28, 2024
Scientists engineer ‘glowing’ gel to improve eye surgery
Innovation tackles long-standing challenge in cataract procedures by making surgical materials visible under blue light.
October 17, 2024
Hopkins joins Cancer AI Alliance
Johns Hopkins and Kimmel Cancer Center researchers collaborate on big data science.
October 2, 2024
Can AI improve how we handle obesity care?
Using a cutting-edge AI technique, Johns Hopkins researchers present a potential clinical tool to predict waist circumference and identify patients at risk for obesity complications.
September 25, 2024
Journal selects Hopkins BME research for cover
Immunoengineering research by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers was recently featured on the cover of the journal JCI Insight.
September 24, 2024
Low gravity in space travel found to disrupt normal rhythm in heart muscle cells
New research from Johns Hopkins find that heart tissues aboard the space station beat about half as strong as on Earth.
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.
September 11, 2024
New tool blends classic math and AI to tackle complex challenges
Learned Proximal Networks offer reliable solutions for tasks like image restoration, reconstruction of medical scans, and other estimation problems.
September 10, 2024
JHU-led internship program opens doors for students with hearing loss
NIDCD-funded program aims to engage and empower students with hearing loss by giving them summer internships in hearing sciences labs.
August 20, 2024
VectorCam: Fighting malaria one image at a time
Hopkins biomedical engineers pioneer the development of VectorCam, a device that lets someone with minimal training identify mosquito species in a matter of seconds.
July 30, 2024
Fatal opioid overdoses lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year, study finds
New study sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths during the COVID pandemic, including sharply rising totals among young minorities.
July 23, 2024
News Brief: Sarma, Beer research featured in JHU Engineering Magazine
Research projects from Sri Sarma and Michael Beer are featured in the Spring 2024 JHU Engineering's Magazine, in an article titled "Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Medicine." 
July 9, 2024
AI could change the way we measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients
An undergraduate biomedical engineering design project yields a non-invasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure.
June 27, 2024
New study reveals how brain changes when you learn a sound
The study offers insight into how the brain’s auditory cortex processes sound-related learning, advancing our understanding of how we process acoustic information.
A computer rendering of a human heart appears in front of a heart monitor readout.
June 20, 2024
Hitting the target for successful heart ablation
In a breakthrough for guiding the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common form of heart arrhythmia affecting millions, Johns Hopkins researchers have for the first time developed digital twins of patients’ hearts that allow physicians to more precisely identify optimal targets for ablation — a procedure during which small patches of tissue causing the faulty rhythm are burned away.
An artist’s illustration of the artificial lymph node Credit: Jennifer Fairman; used with permission from Advanced Materials
June 7, 2024
‘Artificial lymph node’ used to treat cancer in mice
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed an artificial lymph node, which is implanted under the skin and designed to act like a learning hub and stimulator to teach immune system T-cells to recognize and kill cancer cells.
May 28, 2024
Collect, insert, diagnose: Revolutionizing ACCESS to cancer screening
Shoebox-sized device promises earlier esophageal cancer detection in low-resource areas
Photo of MAGIC imaging capsule
May 23, 2024
MAGIC: Pill-sized imaging capsule could be game-changer for catching esophageal cancer sooner
Hopkins researchers develop a "one-stop shop” capsule for diagnosing and treating Barrett's esophagus, a condition known to be a precursor to esophageal cancer.
February 22, 2024
Hopkins BME, university consortium take on grand challenges in biomedical engineering
In a new IEEE paper, an alliance of 50 experts from 34 elite universities— including Johns Hopkins —reveal five research areas where the field of biomedical engineering has the potential to achieve tremendous impact on the field of medicine.
Overlay of cellular positions from two partially matched serial sections of a breast tumor after alignment using STalign
February 20, 2024
Computational tool offers new possibilities for spatial genomics research
Johns Hopkins engineers develop a new computational method to precisely align spatial transcriptomics data across samples, resolutions, and technologies, enabling researchers to learn more about the underlying biology of cells.
February 1, 2024
Meet RoboDrop, the superbug slayer
Johns Hopkins researchers created RoboDrop: a robotic platform capable of rapidly screening multiple combinations of antibiotics simultaneously to find the most potent mixtures and provide a tool for understanding and navigating drug interactions.
January 31, 2024
Research suggests link between amygdala and early Alzheimer’s symptoms: Q&A with Kaitlin Stouffer
Stouffer talks about her group’s work on understanding how the amygdala relates to Alzheimer’s disease progression and why it is a promising frontier for Alzheimer’s research and treatment.
January 9, 2024
News Brief: Research from Johns Hopkins named one of National Geographic’s top medical breakthroughs of 2023
Research from Johns Hopkins and University of Cambridge has been named one of National Geographic’s seven medical breakthroughs of 2023....
January 9, 2024
“Ground truth” colonoscopy dataset to boost cancer detection through AI
A Johns Hopkins University research team has created a dataset of simulated colonoscopy videos, called C3VD, that can help researchers evaluate how their computer vision models will perform in real-world scenarios.
MRI scanner
December 12, 2023
Brain imaging technique allows researchers to achieve more with less data
Hopkins researchers develop new AI algorithm that can reconstruct brain images to identify potential biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases.
November 22, 2023
News Brief: Casey Overby Taylor awarded funding from NIMHD
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program and 10 partner institutes, centers, and offices have funded 26...
A BCI decodes neural signals acquired from electrodes placed on the surface of brain areas responsible for speech and upper limb function. Participant then navigates options on a communication board using a set of six navigational commands to control devices like room lights.
November 10, 2023
Brain-computer interface restores control of home devices for Johns Hopkins patient with ALS
A brain-computer interface (BCI) surgically implanted on the brain of an ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) patient has shown success in translating brain signals into computer commands.
A microscopic image of intramedullary osteosarcoma.
November 6, 2023
Machine learning model calculates chemotherapy success in patients with osteosarcoma
The model's results correlated 85% with those calculated by a musculoskeletal pathologist.
Jude Phillip
October 9, 2023
Jude Phillip receives award to classify subtypes of aging cells
Phillip, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a Junior Faculty award from the American Federation for Aging Research—Glenn Foundation to identify and classify subtypes of senescent cells.

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