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Biomedical engineering

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

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

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

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.

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

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