When radiologist Susan Harvey, director of breast imaging at Johns Hopkins Medicine, was looking for ways to improve access to breast cancer diagnostics and therapeutics in South Africa, she turned to the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, which is emerging as a leader in training the next generation of biomedical engineers. Read […]
A team of undergraduate biomedical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University won third place this past weekend at the sixth annual Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition, a showcase competition for humanitarian-centered business plans held at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The JHU team of Stephen Johannesson, Barbara Kim, and Anshul Subramanya took […]
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 University’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design is gearing up for its Design Day competition, the annual showcase for biomedical engineering students. This year, organizers have added a competition open to student teams from across Hopkins—the first-ever Student Healthcare Design Competition. Both events will be held on May 3. Since 2009, Design Day has […]
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, […]
Congratulations to CBID Alumni, David Narrow, for making the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Healthcare. David graduated from the JHU CBID Program in 2013. Read more
A team of eight Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students were awarded first place by judges of the 2015 Retail and Health Innovation Challenge held at Wake Forest University School of Business in Winston-Salem, NC. MORE
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 […]
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 […]
