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Biomedical engineering

A navy blue and green rendering of a human eye
Medicine
A visionary new tool for cataract surgery
Published Oct 31, 2024
Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures
From left, Gloria Kalnitskaya, Eric McAlexander, and Selena Shirkin at the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Entrepreneurship
Johns Hopkins team named runner-up in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Published Oct 25, 2024
Students take home $5,000 prize for fetal surgery innovation
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Artificial Intelligence
Can AI improve how we handle obesity care?
Published Oct 1, 2024
Using a cutting-edge technique, Hopkins researchers present a potential clinical tool to predict waist circumference and identify patients at risk for obesity complications
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Cancer research
JHU gets more than $20M to develop advanced surgical techniques for cancer
Published Aug 22, 2024
Funding is part of $150M awarded by ARPA-H in support of the Cancer Moonshot initiative to fast-track discovery in cancer research
Benjamin Biggs
Student Scholar
Biomedical engineering doctoral student named Quad Fellow
Published Aug 16, 2024
Benjamin Biggs among recipients of highly competitive award for exceptional master's and doctoral students to study STEM in the U.S.
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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
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
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, light micrograph, photo under microscope
Biomedical engineering
Pill-sized imaging capsule could help catch esophageal cancer sooner
Published May 30, 2024
Hopkins researchers develop a "one-stop shop" capsule for diagnosing and treating Barrett's esophagus, a condition known to be a precursor to esophageal cancer
Scans of a real abdominal tumor on the left, vs. synthetic tumors on the right
Artificial intelligence
Fake tumors, real results
Published May 30, 2024
The Hopkins-led team demonstrated that an AI model trained solely on synthetic tumor data works as well as models trained on real tumors