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Bloomberg distinguished professorships

Lisa Cooper
Health equity
Cooper named 25th BDP
Published Dec 7, 2016
Health equity researcher plans to establish new institute, deepen ties with at-risk communities
Computer science
A giant leap for genome sequencing
Published Oct 24, 2016
JHU's Michael Schatz leads work on new computer algorithms that create more complete DNA portraits
Commentary
Diagnostic breakthroughs meet FDA roadblocks
Published Oct 13, 2016
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Steven Salzberg says regulations block improvements to DNA sequencing for diagnosing illness / Bloomberg View
Ulrich Mueller
Brain science
Neuroscientist Ulrich Mueller named 24th BDP
Published Aug 25, 2016
Expert on hearing loss, brain development studies molecular workings behind auditory impairment
Carl Wu portrait in lab
Interdisciplinary scholar
Carl Wu named 23rd BDP
Published Aug 3, 2016
Renowned expert on chromatin biology, biochemistry will establish new lab to investigate chromatin structure, gene regulation
Commentary
Conservation complication
Published Aug 2, 2016 Video
Efforts to reduce water use in agriculture could end up having the opposite effect, JHU expert writes / Bloomberg View
Adam Riess
Space scholar
Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd BDP
Published July 8, 2016 Video
Astrophysicist won 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for his team's discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating
The 21 Bloomberg Distinguished Professors
Interdisciplinary research
How Hopkins attracts the best
Published June 22, 2016
JHU's Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships attract star professors from around the world / Baltimore Sun
Michael Schatz
Bloomberg Professors
Michael Schatz named 21st BDP
Published May 26, 2016
He is one of the world's foremost experts in solving computational problems in genomics research
Breast Cancer
Healthy lifestyle can lower cancer risk
Published May 26, 2016
Women may be able to reduce their chances of getting breast cancer, even if they have genetic risk factors / School of Public Health