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COMMUNITY
This is how you hackathon
Published May 1, 2019
Mini-MedHacks brings city students to the East Baltimore campus for a day of problem-solving, design, and creativity
Radiex device
Undergraduate research
Student team develops tool for use in brain surgeries
Published Nov 15, 2018
Team's device, Radiex, holds back cortical tissue during surgery; they will present their design this week at Collegiate Inventors Competition
A woman wears a clear plastic mask
Innovators
The new (fully visible) face of surgery
Published April 25, 2018
Hopkins-grown startup ClearMask scores $25K from Social Innovation Lab
Representatives of Team Treyetech and Team AssistENT
Undergraduate research
Teams of young inventors recognized
Published April 10, 2018
Two teams of Hopkins biomedical engineering students are among winners at MIT competition
Three Hopkins team members pose with silver medals
Undergraduate research
JHU 2nd at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Published Nov 3, 2017
Undergraduate students developed AssistENT, a device designed to open obstructed nostrils and aid sleep
Three students pose with an oversized check for $15,000
Biotechnology
Winning idea for eye surgery
Published April 28, 2017
Treyetech team, made up of 8 undergrads, develops novel device for transplanting, unrolling corneal tissue
Members of team Rain Rain Go Away pose with their invention and a man who uses a wheelchair
Hackathon
Inspired design
Published April 17, 2017
Students win contest with inverted umbrella that deploys with the flip of a switch to help keep wheelchair users dry
The Cryoablation team who competed at the Collegiate Inventors Competition (from left) Bailey Surtees, Sarah Lee, Yixin Clarisse Hu, and Serena Thomas.
Undergrad research
JHU team takes bronze
Published Nov 7, 2016
Students place third at Collegiate Inventors Competition with low-cost cryotherapy system to treat breast cancer