Gizmodo ran a story (and video) on a new Ebola protective suit — created by a Johns Hopkins team during the recent Ebola Design Challenge — that is designed to peel off easily, minimizing the wearer’s exposure to contamination from Ebola. The design was among the winners of an international competition through USAID. View the story — and watch […]
Professor Youseph Yazdi, director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design in the Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, tells us how he and his team have tried to improve the design of the Ebola protective suit. Listen here.
Medgadget reported that a team at Johns Hopkins has developed, and just won a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to further perfect, a new protective suit for use when treating highly infectious patients. View the story here.
The Washington Post reported that USAID selected a protective suit designed by a Johns Hopkins team as one of the winners in a global competition for solutions to increase the protection and comfort of front-line workers battling Ebola. Read the complete story here.
The New York Times reported that a JHU-designed protective suit for health care workers treating Ebola patients is one of the first five winners of the Ebola “Grand Challenges” contest announced in October by the United States Agency for International Development Read the complete story in the New York Times here.
An advanced protective suit for health care workers who treat Ebola patients, devised by a Johns Hopkins team, is one of the first five awardees in a federal funding contest aimed at quickly devising new tools to combat the deadly disease. The Johns Hopkins prototype is designed to do a better job than current garments […]
Voice of America reported on last month’s Ebola Design Challenge, a JHU/JHPIEGO effort to create a new and better Ebola protective suit. Read the story here or view the video alone here.
A Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering student team has placed second in the undergraduate division of the Collegiate Inventors Competitionfor its AccuSpine probe, marking the third consecutive year that a Johns Hopkins team has been awarded a top prize in this challenge. The winners were announced Monday during an awards ceremony at the U.S. Patent and […]
With the goal of reducing the risk of infection among frontline health workers, an Emergency Ebola Design Challenge event will be held this weekend, Oct. 24 to 26, on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus. Participants from the university will be asked to help improve the design of personal protection gear that health workers wear and use while treating patients […]
