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Microscopic to Macroscopic: How changes to our immune cells shape how we age

Now a fourth year PhD student in biomedical engineering, LaDaisha Thompson is studying how our immune system influences cell aging and she is looking for ways to define and measure that influence.

December 11, 2024

Students in the Hopkins BME CBID program develop and create solutions for major challenges to human health, with a focus on real-world impact.

JHU students at Collegiate Inventors Competition

October 24, 2024

Johns Hopkins team takes runner-up in Collegiate Inventors Competition

Biomedical engineering students take home $5,000 prize for fetal surgery innovation

October 1, 2024

News Brief: Hopkins team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition

The student team's invention aims to reduce risks in fetal surgeries.

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.

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.

Design Day 2024 Roundup

On May 1, The Whiting School of Engineering held its annual Design Day to showcase the innovative design projects conceived, designed, and built by students during the academic year. The Department of Biomedical Engineering was represented by over 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from six design courses, including the undergraduate Design Team program, CBID master’s program, Precision Care Medicine, and Biomedical Data Design.

Beating breast cancer in Africa

Undergrad and CBID BME students tackle breast cancer inequities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

12 from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

A total of 12 undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.

Five from Hopkins BME recognized at Young Investigators’ Day

The annual Young Investigators’ Day ceremony celebrates the unique contributions of junior researchers and the mentors who helped them excel in their fields.

Johns Hopkins BME junior Jackson Morris receives Truman Scholarship

Junior Jackson Morris has been named a 2024 Truman Scholar, marking the first time in five years that a Johns Hopkins University student has received the prestigious scholarship.

February 21, 2024

Q&A: PhD student Joseph Criscione receives American Heart Association Fellowship

In this Q&A, Criscione shares his path to working on cardiac disease modeling, why he chose Johns Hopkins, and how he hopes his research will eventually improve patient outcomes.

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.

Erick Rocher in the lab

December 11, 2023

Improving medical care on many fronts

As a biomedical engineering major, Erick Rocher is immersing himself in wide-ranging research, from improving surgical outcomes and innovating training for robotic surgery to harnessing nanotechnology to deliver better cancer treatment.

December 11, 2023

Student Spotlight: Christine Wang

Growing up, Christine Wang ’24 had a deep fascination with space exploration and dreamed of being an astronaut. Her passion for all things space has since led her to Johns Hopkins, where she is studying biomedical engineering with the goal of integrating biomedical technologies with space science.

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November 2, 2023

Six from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

Six biomedical engineering undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to help fund their research projects over the coming year.

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October 27, 2023

Hopkins BME undergrads named runners-up in Collegiate Inventors’ Competition

A team of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate biomedical engineering students were named runners-up in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition.

September 27, 2023

A BME summer abroad in Uganda

Ishir Sharma, a third-year biomedical engineering student, spent two months this summer pursuing a clinical engineering-based healthcare service project in Uganda.

OnPoint Ventilation team

September 25, 2023

Student entrepreneurs among Collegiate Inventors Competition finalists

The team developed the Bronchosleeve, a novel catheter to improve a common chest surgery procedure.

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A new device for fetal therapy

Biomedical engineering third-year student Selena Shirkin and her team are working to prevent membrane rupture during emergency in-utero surgery.

Sheila Iyer, Nathan Wang, and Erick Rocher

Three from Hopkins BME win Goldwater Scholarships

Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering students Sheila Iyer, Erick Rocher, and Nathan Wang have received Goldwater Scholarships, which recognize students for their research and achievements in the STEM fields.

BME student startup receives President’s Venture Fellowship

CurveAssure, a promising startup launched by Johns Hopkins BME students, will receive $100,000 from the university as winners of the inaugural President's Venture Fellowship, support designed to allow fledgling ventures to grow and thrive in Baltimore.

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Two Hopkins BME students inducted into Bouchet Society

Two Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering PhD students were inducted into the university's chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

Johns Hopkins graduate student startups shine in Heartland Challenge

Hopkins was the only university with three teams in the semifinals of the competition, which simulates the process of raising venture capital for new technologies.

Eight Hopkins BME affiliates receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to eight current students with ties to Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. They have been selected for their outstanding work in science, technology, engineering, or math fields.

Two from Hopkins BME recognized at Young Investigators’ Day

The annual Young Investigators' Day ceremony celebrates the unique contributions of junior researchers and the mentors who helped them excel in their fields.

Seven from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

Seven undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.

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February 14, 2023

Sense of identity

Two biomedical engineering students share how they were able to maintain, define, and redefine their sense of identity at Johns Hopkins.

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February 6, 2023

Johns Hopkins engineering students develop gaming prostheses for amputees

In three-week Prosthesis Instrumentation course, students build game controllers to enable transradial amputees to play Minecraft.

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January 24, 2023

PneuTech wins $20,000 grant and advances to next stage of VentureWell E-Team Program

The Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering student innovator team, PneuTech, was recently selected to advance to the next stage of the VentureWell E-Team Program.

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