Skip to main content
Archived articles

School of Medicine

Ted DeWeese, Branville Bard and others during the community walk on July 31
Community
A walk with Theodore DeWeese
Published Aug 1, 2024
Hopkins-hosted community walks allow faculty, staff, and students to meet local residents to spark future collaborations and partnerships
Illustration of pill bottles pouring pills
Opioid epidemic
Overdose deaths lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year
Published July 30, 2024
Data analysis sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths, including sharply rising totals among young minorities
Students and instructors in the Summer Jobs program
Community
Summer Jobs Program marks 30 years
Published July 25, 2024
Since 1994, thousands of local teens and college students have spent their summers learning on the job in departments spanning the university and health system
BME students and Dr. Robert Stevens presenting ICPredict at 2022 Johns Hopkins BME Design Day 
Biomedical engineering
Using AI to measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients
Published July 22, 2024
Undergrad biomedical engineering project yields noninvasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure
Rendering of sickle cells in the bloodstream; they are crescent-shaped instead of round
Biomedical engineering
A less burdensome approach to sickle cell treatment
Published July 18, 2024
A Johns Hopkins team has developed a gene editing approach that could make the treatment of sickle cell disease shorter and less risky, relieving some of the burden on patients
Joon Soo Kim, Liam Cheng, and Tihitina Aytenfisu
University News
Hopkins community celebrates transformative financial aid gift
Published July 8, 2024
Faculty, students share their excitement about Bloomberg Philanthropies' $1 billion investment in future generations of doctors, nurses, research pioneers
Hopkins Hospital dome
Philanthropy
JHU receives $1B investment in graduate financial aid
Published July 8, 2024
Bloomberg Philanthropies gift will allow most medical students to attend Hopkins tuition-free; support for other graduate programs will ensure access for top talent from all backgrounds
Mandy Cohen
CDC director calls for data-based, preventative community care
Published July 2, 2024
At the latest Health Policy Forum, CDC Director Mandy Cohen discusses how data can help solve problems ranging from opioid overdoses to gun violence
Seun Falade-Nwulia
Medicine
Overcoming treatment barriers
Published June 12, 2024
Infectious disease specialist Seun Falade-Nwulia works to ensure patients with infectious diseases and substance use disorders receive the carefully coordinated care they require
From left: Jessica Queen and Cynthia Sears
Medicine
Linking colon cancer to gut bacteria
Published June 5, 2024
School of Medicine professors Jessica Queen and Cynthia Sears recently published an article in the journal Nature Cancer about potential links between the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer.