News Type: PhD Student News
BME graduate student Carmen Kut awarded the 2014 Sommerman Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes outstanding performance as a graduate teaching assistant in the Whiting School of Engineering.
Five Johns Hopkins students named 2014 Siebel Scholars — four from BME
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.
Johns Hopkins BME students win two top awards in BMEidea competition
EchoSure System and Gala Pump awarded first and third place, respectively, in the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Awards competition.
“The Ph.D. Translational Excellerator: Transitioning from the Lab to Product” is Awarded $125,000 PII Funding
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 places first in GRC poster competition
Kathleen McDowell, JHU BME graduate student, wins poster competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.
Roberto Tron receives 2012 Best Student Paper Award
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.”
Stephany Tzeng receives SFB 2013 Outstanding Research Award
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.
Benjamin Bejar Haro receives 2012 MICCAI Best Paper Award
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.
Dongwon Lee paper voted Top 10 of 2011
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.
Helena Zec selected for 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
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.
BME Ph.D. graduate founder of local non-profit
Sarah E. Hemminger, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering graduate, receives recognition and press coverage for her community contributions.
Johns Hopkins bioengineering Ph.D. students named 2013 Siebel Scholars
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.
BME PhD students win top prize at Yale Consulting Case Competition
Four BME PhD students were part of the winning team at the recent Yale Consulting Case Competition. Deborah Castillo, Jason...
Kathleen McDowell awarded AHA pre-doctoral fellowship
Kathleen McDowell, a student working in the lab of Natalia Trayanova, has been awarded an American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship award.
Daniel Tward receives NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral award
Daniel Tward, a third-year CIS PhD student working with Drs. Michael Miller, Laurent Younes and Tilak Ratnanather has been awarded...
Kathleen McDowell winner of the Jos Willems Young Investigator Competition
Kathleen McDowell, a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Natalia Trayanova, was named the winner of the Jos Willems Young Investigator Competition at the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology
Raymond Cheong wins Michael Shanoff Award
Raymond Cheong, an MD/PhD student in the lab of Dr. Andre Levchenko, was awarded the highly prestigious Michael Shanoff Award by the 2012 Young Investigators’ Day Committee.
Xiaoxu Kang honored as a Macklin Fellow
Xiaoxu Kang, a PhD student working with Dr. Nitish V. Thakor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at JHU has...
Xiaoxu Kang awarded Robbie Melton Scholarship
Xiaoxu Kang, a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was selected as the winner of this year’s Women...
BME PhD student awarded NRSA
Sravanti Kusuma, a fourth year PhD student in Dr. Sharon Gerecht's lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI to support her project.
Three BME PhD Students Among This Year’s Seibel Scholars
The 2012 Siebel Scholars from Johns Hopkins are Suneil Hosmane, Stephanie I. Fraley, Manisha Aggarwal, Donny Hanjaya-Putra and Hannah Carter....
Eugene Kim awarded the William Negendank Young Investigator Award
Eugene Kim, a BME PhD student in the lab of Dr. Arvind P. Pathak, was awarded the William Negendank Young...
CER grants Technology Fellowship Award to BME PhD Student
Xiaoxu Kang, a BME PhD student, has been awarded a Technology Fellowship Award in value of $5000 from JHU’s Center...
Christopher Smith awarded UNCF/Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship
Christopher L. Smith, a PhD candidate from Murfreesboro, TN, has received a 2011 UNCF/Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship.
Brent Millare awarded National Research Service Award
Brent Millare, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award...
Two students win AHA predoctoral fellowships
Two BME graduate students have been awarded highly competitive American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowships. Kshitiz Gupta of Dr. Andre...
Paliwal honored at Young Investigators’ Day
Saurabh Paliwal, working in Dr. Andre Levchenko’s lab, received the Bae Gyo Jung Research Award at the Young Investigators’ Day...
Trayanova students awarded National Research Service Award
Two students in Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s lab have been awarded National Research Service Awards (NRSA) from NHLBI. The fellowships provide...