Every year, students in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) program are charged with designing medical devices to solve clinical problems in both Johns Hopkins Hospital and some of the world’s lowest resource areas. In order to do this effectively, they must understand the environs, resources, and needs of some of the world’s […]
CBS Baltimore (WJZ-TV 13) reported on a JHU team’s design of a new, improved suit intended to protect health care workers caring for patients with Ebola. The design won an international competition staged by the USAID. Learn more here.
NPR reported that the winning design in USAID’s recent Ebola Grand Challenge came from a team of more than 80 researchers and students at Johns Hopkins, beating out 1,500 other entries. Learn more here.
Fast Company reported on the JHU team’s design of a new “breakaway” Ebola suit that was among the winners in an international competition through USAID. Read the story and see the video here.
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 […]
