News Type: All Student News
Freshmen compete in foam core challenge
The new BME Design Studio hosts the annual BME Foam Core Challenge, introducing freshmen to biomedical design.
Student-designed tricorder diagnostics system selected as finalist in Qualcomm Xprize challenge
This global competition challenges teams to develop a consumer-friendly, mobile device capable of diagnosing and interpreting 15 conditions along with digital capture of vital health metrics.
BME graduate student Dan Wu awarded HHMI International student fellowship
The $43,000 annual award will support her research efforts to develop diffusion MRI methods to probe brain microstructural changes during brain development and injury.
BME team wins 2014 DEBUT challenge with AccuSpine probe
A pedicle probe designed by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduate students took first place in the NIH competition and was awarded a $20,000 prize.
BME design team’s emergency blood loss prevention system receives approval for testing
The student-designed injectable foam system fills the wound area and blocks blood loss in the critical first hour prior to receipt of more advanced medical help.
BME student team develops auditory training app for cochlear implant users
Speech Banana app, now in beta testing, will expand and supplement cochlear implant training by allowing adult with CI to practice on their own.
BME EDGE helps PhD student find summer internship
This PhD candidate finds a summer internship at Genetech that mirrors his Johns Hopkins lab research. The role was found through BME EDGE —a program that enables students to explore job possibilities and refine career goals.
Calcium Signal Lab researcher and BME PhD student Manu Ben Johny receives award for top research
The Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award is presented at Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day — which celebrates the achievements of Johns Hopkins students, postdocs and research fellows.
2nd Annual JHU–UMD BMES Undergraduate Research Day
The event is designed to showcase student research projects conducted during the past academic year and to encourage and inspire classmates in the biomedical engineering programs to pursue their own research.
BME graduate student Kelly Chang awarded JHU ARCS Foundation Scholarship
The prestigious ARCS Foundation Scholarship provides $15,000 for education and research to support select, extraordinary graduate students.
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.
BME undergrad Ivan Kuznetsov named 2014 Goldwater Scholar
The coveted Goldwater Scholarship is awarded to extraordinary undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who are deemed to have a strong research profile and exceptional promise for a research career.
BME undergrads win competition with PrestoPatch, cardiac arrhythmia treatment
The 2013 Collegiate Inventor Competition winners plan to use their prize money to help launch a company to commercialize their invention.
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 Biomedical Engineering Society wins 2013 Student Chapter Commendable Achievement Award
Exemplary achievement in fostering interaction among Johns Hopkins BME students and with other student chapters cited
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.
BME freshmen create art by writing python programs
As part of a class assignment BME freshmen create amazing art by writing Python programs.
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.
CBID students and faculty hike to top of Pulpit Rock in Norway
JHU BME CBID graduate students and faculty hike to the top of Pulpit Rock in Stavanger, Norway during Global Health rotations.
John J. Kim places first in MAPS poster competition
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.
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.
Hyun Sung Park wins BMES 2012 Design & Research Award
BMES selects undergraduate award recipients on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.
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.
BME undergraduate devices featured in local news
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.
BME undergraduates win at iGEM 2012 competition
Teams Johns Hopkins -- Software and Wetware, secured a win at iGEM 2012, a worldwide Synthetic Biology competition for undergrads.