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 […]
A team of Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins recently won the 2014 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge for developing a device that aims to help surgeons safely and accurately place screws during spinal fusion procedures and surgeries for spinal abnormalities. The AccuSpine pedicle probe was designed by eight undergraduates: Clay Andrews, […]
Johns Hopkins student-built devices have won two of the top three awards in a national contest that recognizes innovative biomedical engineering designs.
