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Tech ventures

Three teams receive grants from Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund

Published March 10, 2022

Three research teams received grants from the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund to advance their commercially viable invention concepts

Three from Hopkins named to National Academy of Inventors

Published Dec 20, 2021

Cardiologist Ronald Berger, neurologist Ted Dawson, and biomedical engineer Jordan Green are among 164 selected to join the academy this year

Artist's rendering of the Neisseria gonorrhea bacteria

Medical devices

Johns Hopkins develops portable device for rapidly diagnosing STIs

Published May 12, 2021

The low-cost device matches the specificity and sensitivity of current hospital tests, and can detect which strains of disease may become resistant to antibiotics

Tech Ventures

Four Johns Hopkins discoveries head to commercial path

Published March 15, 2021

Four Johns Hopkins professors are pursuing commercial paths for their discoveries

Tinkerer, climber, engineer

Published Spring 2021

Alum and inventor Jessamy Taylor loves being outdoors, scaling heights, and solving problems. Among them: a better way to adaptive climb / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Engineering

The future of face masks

Published Dec 22, 2020

Student engineering team wins $250,000 for adaptable surgical mask design in XPRIZE competition

Faculty honors

Five Johns Hopkins faculty named to National Academy of Inventors

Published Dec 8, 2020

Ramalingam Chellappa, Valina Dawson, Sharon Gerecht, Carol Greider, and Nitish Thakor are recognized for their inventions, discoveries, and breakthroughs that have made a difference in society