News Type: Undergraduate Student News

The Innerva team, made up of undergraduate students from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, were awarded the 2021 $10,000 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their work with peripheral nerve injuries.

Two juniors studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for their research and achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math

Cassandra Parent, a third-year student studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, was recently named a track winner in the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs, earning a prize of $10,000.

Hopkins BME senior Ben Straus shares homework help and study tips through TikTok videos and a Discord server.

Three Hopkins roommates transformed their townhouse into a temporary manufacturing lab while the campus closed due to the pandemic.

A team of biomedical engineering undergraduate students won $250,000 for their adaptable surgical mask design in the XPRIZE competition.

A Hopkins BME team of 24 undergraduate students that's come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask.

A group of six third-year undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University is on a mission to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic from their living rooms by designing leak-proof masks that can be used with ordinary CPAP machines to deliver breathing relief to hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Team Benegraft is among the finalists announced by the Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual contest founded by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level.

Gavin Mischler, Maya Lapinski, and Katherine Hu met through the Hopkins BME Design Team program, and spent the next three years developing a reusable device that aims to reduce the rate of childbirth-related deaths for women in low-resource settings.

Relavo, a company founded by Johns Hopkins undergraduates studying biomedical engineering, has been awarded a $500,000 KidneyX prize to develop a product that reduces the risk for contamination during at-home kidney dialysis treatments.

After the first client-owned dog received a partial corneal transplant in 2017, a team of Hopkins BME students and alumni developed a device to make it easier for surgeons to perform partial corneal transplants on dogs.

The founders of Cellular Analysis Technologies valued their time in the FastForward U’s spring Accelerator program so much, they’re going through the program twice—first as a Spark team, and now as a Fuel team. The program helps students from across Johns Hopkins bring their business ideas to life.

While most of his classmates were preparing for final exams and upcoming summer internships, Chris Shallal spent the end of his third year focused on a multi-campus effort to create and provide durable, reusable face shields to healthcare workers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Johns Hopkins BME senior Debanik Purkayastha and a team of university students are working to build volunteer networks online to help others during the pandemic.

Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, a Johns Hopkins University senior majoring in biomedical engineering, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship supporting his post-graduate studies in clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in England.

Vinay Ayyappan, a Hopkins BME senior, will study cancer imaging techniques in the laboratory of Cambridge radiologist Ferdia Gallagher.

Meet Alina Andrews, a BME student who hit her stride at Johns Hopkins, thanks largely to a supportive program that helped her thrive.

A team of Hopkins BME students identified a metal artifact in the Homewood Museum collection as a century-old part of the building's roof.

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

Team Relavo wins runner-up prize for device designed to reduce infection rates during at-home kidney dialysis.

It’s not uncommon for college students to balk at the idea of group work, but Johns Hopkins engineering student Sarah Lee says she can’t imagine finding the success she has with her award-winning medical device company without help and input from her team.

2017 Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering graduate Bailey Surtees and a team of student engineers recently published a paper in 'PLOS One' about a device they developed that treats cancer by freezing cancerous tissue using CO2.

A cryoablation probe developed by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students would offer an affordable, widely available alternative for women in low-resource settings.

For the second year in a row, Vinay Ayyappan, a rising senior in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded an Astronaut Scholarship, which recognizes talented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Treyetech, a Johns Hopkins engineering team, took home more than $30,000 in grants and prizes from the Rice Business Plan Competition after presenting their designs for a device that makes corneal transplant surgery easier.

More than 30 teams of biomedical engineering undergraduate and graduate students presented the projects and prototypes they’ve been designing all year.

Two students studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for their research and achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Vinay Ayyappan and Julia Costacurta are among 496 scholarship winners for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Autumn Hughes, a first-year student studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, has been recognized for her work with the Hop-In Program, which supports first-generation and limited-income students.

Members of Ithemba, an all-female team of biomedical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University, has earned the 2019 $10,000 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.