Johns Hopkins undergrad team takes second place at Collegiate Inventors Competition
November 4, 2017
Students developed device designed to open obstructed nostrils and aid sleep.
News: Bioengineering Innovation & Design
Johns Hopkins undergrads among finalists in annual Collegiate Inventors Competition
September 27, 2017
A Johns Hopkins student team within CBID that wants to help people breathe easier has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition, organizers of the event announced Tuesday. The students devised a simple, discreet device to open obstructed nostrils, a common problem that can cause snoring and other sleep disruptions, as […]
Undergrads bring home three awards from NIH DEBUT Challenge
September 1, 2017
Undergraduate design teams in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design won three awards at the NIH DEBUT Challenge. This design competition recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical design and innovation. Entries were judged on significance of the problem being addresses, impact on potential users and clinical care, innovative design, and working prototype. More about the Johns Hopkins winning […]
Students blog from Brazil, China, India, and Uganda
August 9, 2017
Every summer, Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering students work side-by-side with primary care providers in some of the world’s most underserved communities. They assess the needs and then design, prototype, and commercialize the next generation of medical devices that are transforming global health care. Johns Hopkins’ Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) forms teams of […]
Learning to Think Like a Clinician and Function Like a Startup
July 19, 2017
– Catherine Gara During his first year of medical school at the Johns Hopkins University, David Gullotti attended a retreat for Christian health care providers. There he mentioned that he enjoyed using his physics and engineering background to sketch device ideas that could improve patient outcomes, but he struggled to see a path forward, a […]
FastForward 1812 provides startups with office space
June 7, 2017
A 23,000-square-foot innovation hub, located at 1812 Ashland Ave. on the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus, is the latest addition to a rapidly growing and increasingly vibrant startup scene that is helping to bring life-changing products, services, and technologies to market—and to revitalize Baltimore’s economy. Read more as featured in JHU Engineering Magazine…
CBID designs automated mosquito trap to track Zika
May 22, 2017
It all started at a hackathon. A group of Johns Hopkins students, postdocs, and faculty members gathered one weekend in April 2016 to develop a solution to the recent spread of the Zika virus. After hitting a few dead ends, the VectorWEB team hit upon an idea to create an automated trap that would count […]
In quest to revolutionize wound monitoring, Tissue Analytics adds Intermountain Healthcare
May 17, 2017
Before cofounding Tissue Analytics, Kevin Keenahan and Josh Budman were just completing a project to earn their master’s degrees. As graduate biomedical engineering students inside the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Keenahan and Budman were observing nurses and doctors treat wounds in hospitals and clinics in Baltimore in 2013. Get complete news […]
Dr. Robert Allen, CBID Pioneer, Retires
May 15, 2017
As we close out the 2016-2017 academic year, we offer our best wishes to Dr. Robert Allen on his retirement from the faculty, and celebrate his career here. Dr. Allen enters into retirement with a lifetime of achievements, many of which occurred during his time at Johns Hopkins. He came to the university as a […]
CBID Students showcase prototypes at Annual Design Day
May 10, 2017
The 2017 Biomedical Engineering Design Day drew hundreds of students, faculty, clinicians, and mentors to the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Eight master’s student teams and 14 undergraduate student teams represented the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design with projects spanning a range of clinical topics. The event opened with a keynote address from Howard Levin […]
