Two teams of engineering students–one graduate and one undergraduate–have been named finalists in the 2015 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. This year’s Johns Hopkins entries include the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate team of Malvi Hemani, Melissa Lin, Kunal Patel, and Huilei Wang who invented a low-cost uterine contraction monitor called TocoTrack,  Designed for low-resource settings, the device […]

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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 […]

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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.

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Sonavex Inc raises 1 Million to Advance Its Ultrasound Based Clot Detection Device.  Read more here

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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 […]

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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.

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Smithsonian Magazine online reported on a  prototype headband device that biomedical engineering students designed to treat Parkinson’s disease at home.

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The Baltimore Sun reported that a group of Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students have developed what they hope will become a third option: a non-invasive device Parkinson’s patients could use at home to treat their symptoms.

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