Bandages with Pressure Sensors Could Prevent Bedsores
February 7, 2017
With the help of a CBID team, plastic and reconstructive surgeon Justin Sacks treats pressure sores that refuse to heal, Get full story from Insight
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Johns Hopkins undergrad team wins bronze in Collegiate Inventors Competition
November 7, 2016
A reusable cryotherapy system that could bring low-cost breast cancer treatment to women in rural South Africa has won the bronze prize for a Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering team in the undergraduate category of the 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. Prize winners were announced Friday at an event in Washington, D.C. The Johns Hopkins […]
Modified mosquito trap, repellant soap among top designs at Johns Hopkins Zika virus hackathon
April 12, 2016
Mapping a city to detect Zika mosquito hotspots. Fashion accessories infused with a long-acting mosquito repellant. A special soap that keeps mosquitoes away. These are among the winning ideas from a Johns Hopkins University hackathon that drew participants from Baltimore to Brazil looking for ways to help prevent the spread of the Zika virus. Johns […]
Johns Hopkins, DuPont join forces to produce improved Ebola protection suit
September 28, 2015
The Johns Hopkins University and DuPont have signed license and collaboration agreements allowing DuPont to commercialize a garment with innovative features from Johns Hopkins to help protect people on the front lines of the Ebola crisis and future deadly infectious disease outbreaks. DuPont intends to have the first of these garments available in the marketplace […]
CBID Welcomes Newest Faculty Member
September 25, 2015
The Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design Team at Johns Hopkins University welcomes new Director of Undergraduate Design Teams, Nicholas Durr. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Durr joins us from MIT. For complete story, please read more here.
Ebola protective suit honored in global design competition
September 15, 2015
The Johns Hopkins University’s new personal protective suit for frontline health care workers in Ebola outbreaks was honored Monday as one of 10 finalists in the Social Good category of Fast Company’s 2015 Innovation by Design Awards. The suit, intended for use in future Ebola outbreaks like the 2014 epidemic that killed thousands in West […]
NPR: One man’s quest to combat counterfeit drugs
August 20, 2015
Yoseph Yazdi, director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), comments on the need to test for fake drugs in developing nations in a story on NPR.
