When radiologist Susan Harvey, director of breast imaging at Johns Hopkins Medicine, was looking for ways to improve access to breast cancer diagnostics and therapeutics in South Africa, she turned to the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, which is emerging as a leader in training the next generation of biomedical engineers. Read […]
A team of undergraduate biomedical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University won third place this past weekend at the sixth annual Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition, a showcase competition for humanitarian-centered business plans held at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The JHU team of Stephen Johannesson, Barbara Kim, and Anshul Subramanya took […]
Mapping a city to detect Zika mosquito hotspots. Fashion accessories infused with a long-acting mosquito repellant. A special soap that keeps mosquitoes away. These are among the winning ideas from a Johns Hopkins University hackathon that drew participants from Baltimore to Brazil looking for ways to help prevent the spread of the Zika virus. Johns […]
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design is gearing up for its Design Day competition, the annual showcase for biomedical engineering students. This year, organizers have added a competition open to student teams from across Hopkins—the first-ever Student Healthcare Design Competition. Both events will be held on May 3. Since 2009, Design Day has […]
TEDxJHU will host “Instructions Not Included” from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 in Mudd Hall #26 on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. The event will feature seven speakers, including Youseph Yazdi, Executive Director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design; Sonia Sarkar, a Hopkins alumna and the Baltimore Health Department’s Chief […]
Congratulations to CBID Alumni, David Narrow, for making the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Healthcare. David graduated from the JHU CBID Program in 2013. Read more
A team of eight Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students were awarded first place by judges of the 2015 Retail and Health Innovation Challenge held at Wake Forest University School of Business in Winston-Salem, NC. MORE
The Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design Team at Johns Hopkins University welcomes new Director of Undergraduate Design Teams, Nicholas Durr. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Durr joins us from MIT. For complete story, please read more here.
Sonavex Inc raises 1 Million to Advance Its Ultrasound Based Clot Detection Device. Read more here
In developing regions where the economy is weak and medical services are limited, global health experts say as many as 200 million women want access to long-term, reversible contraceptives to avoid unintended pregnancies and to help space out the births of their children. One of the most convenient and effective options—a tiny implant that can […]
