News Type: Faculty
Two Hopkins BME researchers receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Jean Fan and Casey Taylor are among a select group of scientists and engineers to receive a 2025 PECASE award.
Natalia Trayanova elevated to IEEE Fellow
Trayanova is recognized for contributions to personalized digital-twins and AI in arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment
Xiaoqin Wang awarded a 2025 Pioneer Award in Basic Science
Wang was awarded for his pioneering work to establish the marmoset model system to elucidate the neural and behavioral basis of hearing and vocal communication.
News Brief: Jordan Green named a Provost Fellow for Public Engagement
Through tailored training and engagement opportunities, fellows will become skilled in providing expert media commentary, proficient at adapting their message to various audiences and stakeholders, able to identify emerging topics of broad interest, and equipped to craft compelling narratives.
News Brief: Steven Salzberg among world’s most cited researchers
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Steven Salzberg is among the 52 researchers from Hopkins listed on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate Analytics.
Andrew Feinberg wins prestigious Harvey Prize
Feinberg is honored for his pioneering research in epigenetics.
News Brief: Zwernemann receives 2023-2024 Distinguished EP Instructor Award
Instructors in the online and part-time programs at Johns Hopkins Engineering are notable for their skill in incorporating their expertise and real-world experience into their classes.
News Brief: Rama Chellappa elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
This honor is conferred to those "who have made outstanding contributions in the selected areas of engineering and technology, maintained a consistent professional relationship with India, and emerged as a global leader for their most distinguished accomplishments."
Adam Charles earns NSF CAREER award to study the brain’s complex architecture
Charles is receiving $718,681 over the next five years to further his work on developing a brain-wide framework for understanding cognition and behavior.
Hopkins joins Cancer AI Alliance
Johns Hopkins and Kimmel Cancer Center researchers collaborate on big data science.
Durr among researchers to receive ARPA-H funding as part of Biden’s ‘Cancer Moonshot’
Durr will partner with Dartmouth researchers to improve robotic cancer surgeries by visualizing critical structures that are often unintentionally injured. His laboratory will develop a novel laparoscope that can image fluorescence signals in three dimensions. His co-investigator, Ahmed Ghazi at the School of Medicine, will create anatomically realistic phantoms needed for testing that system.
News Brief: Kathleen Cullen’s expertise on balance featured in The Washington Post
For American gymnast “Simone Biles perfecting something on the beam or on the mat, any sort of in-the-moment correction would be done with vestibular and proprioceptive feedback,” Cullen said in the article. “Everything else, including vision, is just too slow.”
Constanza Miranda wins DELTA Award
Their proposal focuses on improving undergraduate students’ self-regulation and task management skills that may have been lost due to distance-learning challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, and weaker study habits built in early education for some students.
In AI we trust?
Natalia Trayanova and Rama Chellapa discuss timely issues that academic researchers are grappling with—Can and should AI be regulated? How have rapid AI advances changed teaching?
News Brief: Alexis Battle and Rama Chellappa named co-directors of DSAI
Effective July 1, Alexis Battle and Rama Chellappa will serve as interim co-directors of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute.
13 from Hopkins BME among those selected 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. Teams can apply for up to $100,000 to explore a new area of collaborative work with special emphasis on preparing for an externally funded large-scale grant or cooperative agreement.
Three from Hopkins BME earn Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
Each honoree will each receive a $75,000 grant to support their work over the next year. They also will have the opportunity to participate in mentoring sessions and events designed to connect them with colleagues at similar stages in their careers.
News Brief: Jamie Spangler earns Melanoma Research Alliance Pilot Award
Jamie Spangler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has earned a Melanoma Research Alliance Pilot Award for her work titled "Immunotherapeutic cytokine/antibody fusion protein to treat acral melanoma."
Leading geneticist and parasitologist Jane Carlton named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Carlton uses tools of comparative genomics to study the biology and evolution of different species of parasites, with the goal of eradicating malaria.
News Brief: Natalia Trayanova’s Cardiac “Digital Twins” Featured in Wall Street Journal
Trayanova was also recently selected as an Academy Fellow by the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS).
News Brief: Jessica Dunleavey awarded Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award
Funded by the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, this award recognizes excellence in teaching. Past recipients have been honored for their enthusiasm in the classroom, interest in their students, and ability to teach complex and difficult information.
Jordan Green installed as the Herschel L. Seder Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Jordan Green, professor of biomedical engineering, was named the Herschel L. Seder Professor in biomedical engineering during an installation ceremony on April 9, 2024 at the Homewood Campus.
Joshua Doloff receives grant from Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance
Doloff will use funds to expand research in developing strategies for precise ovarian cancer treatment.
Four from Hopkins BME elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
Kathleen Cullen, Andrew Feinberg, Eileen Haase, and Deok-Ho Kim have been honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education.
Jamie Spangler earns second 2024 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
Spangler is the recipient of a 2024 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award to continue a multi-year project aimed at developing new immunotherapy approaches.
Stephanie Hicks invited to NAM Emerging Leaders Forum
The invitation-only forum is an annual assembly of outstanding early- and mid-career professionals with exceptional professional promise, achievement, and leadership in biomedical science, health, health care and related fields.
Hopkins researchers receive Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards
Adam Charles, Jamie Spangler, and Jeremias Sulam receive awards to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegenerative disease and fundamental neuroscience.
Justus Kebschull named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow
The Sloan Fellowship honors exceptional researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.
News Brief: Trayanova to give The Physiological Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture
The Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.
Eric Young, Johns Hopkins hearing research pioneer, dies
In research that spanned more than 40 years, Dr. Young’s main focus was in understanding the biological basis of common hearing impairments in the brain’s auditory system.