News Type: Undergraduate Student News

Xu wants to devote his career to investigating the mechanisms behind cancer cell progression to find common biomarkers that can lead to more precise and effective therapies.

Undergrads Mili Ramani and Angela Sadlowski create ScentCare, a device that combines smell testing and training.

Kevin Nguyen’s interdisciplinary research project aims to identify opportunities for community-based health-enhancing resources.

An interdisciplinary undergraduate team is working to make synthetic snail mucus, which has potential applications in medicine and cosmetics.

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

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to have contributed to the vision of the Innovation Summit as well as being able to showcase startups like Kubanda Cryotherapy and Biolinco.

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

This summer, biomedical engineering students ventured into the Baltimore community, working at internships that allowed them to apply their academic classroom knowledge while making meaningful contributions to local organizations ranging from a boxing club to a medical device company.

To make fat grafting procedures more successful, undergraduate Design Team AdiCleanse has developed a novel system for standardizing the production of high-quality fat for reinjection.

An undergraduate biomedical engineering design project yields a non-invasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure.

Winners of the Fulbright Study/Research Award design their own research or academic course of study in a specific country. The program aims to facilitate cultural exchange and promote mutual understanding by supporting study or research abroad.

This program recognizes outstanding graduate student researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, providing approximately 2,000 awardees with three years of financial support.

Five undergraduate and two graduate teams from the biomedical engineering department walked away with prizes, including in the competition’s main categories: Medical Technology and Life Sciences I and II. First-place teams received $5,000, second-place teams won $3,000, and third-place teams won $1,000.

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.

Biomedical engineering student team aims to empower patients with a user-friendly, at-home tool

Biomedical engineering team aims to help clinicians use motion data collection to inform medication adjustment

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.

Vasu plans to develop a low-cost creatinine sensor to measure kidney function in patients at risk of kidney disease.

Bowden aspires to use machine learning and image analysis to study disease and injury and optimize outcomes for orthopedics patients.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The team won for DioTeX, a fast, accessible, and accurate hemorrhagic diagnostic tool for combat care.

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

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.

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.

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.