Five Johns Hopkins University graduate students embarked this summer on a trip to Kenya and Uganda—with a collection of infant-sized medical manikins in tow. The team, all students in the yearlong master’s program in bioengineering innovation and design, spent three weeks field-testing a medical device that could save the lives of newborns by monitoring vital […]
Four teams of researchers from Johns Hopkins University will be awarded grants from U.S. Agency for International Development’s Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today 21 potentially game changing solutions to mitigate the spread and impact of the Zika virus. These award nominees underwent a rigorous review process, and have been selected for accelerated development, testing and deployment. In April 2016, USAID launched the Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge to […]
Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is seeking a creative and motivated individual for a teaching track faculty position. The faculty member will co-instruct the department’s undergraduate design course (“Design Team”) along with one other full-time faculty member, managed under the department’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID). The faculty member will be […]
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 […]
In the 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of graduate engineering programs, Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins remains first in the nation— a position the department has held since 1990 when the magazine began ranking the discipline. “We’re gratified that we continue to be highly regarded by our peers,” said Ed Schlesinger, […]
On the second floor of Clark Hall, Elliot McVeigh, Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has ushered in a new era of design education with the opening of the gleaming 3,000-foot BME Design Studio, a resource-rich, creative space engineered to pioneer a 21st-century approach to learning design. Dean Ed Schlesinger, of the Whiting School […]
