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Research in action
Funding a world of good
Published Fall 2025 Video
For more than half a century, Johns Hopkins has been a leader in converting federal support into tangible benefits for the American people / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Q+A
Cancer treatment timing could improve outcomes
Published Oct 6, 2025
Cancer researcher Chi Van Dang studies pharmacokinetics—the way the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes a drug at different times of day. His work on treatment timing holds promise for improving patient outcomes.
Frank Squibb uses his walker to make his way down one of the center's hallwaysFrank Squibb uses his walker to make his way down one of the center's hallways
Research in action
'Big-world data, small-town values'
Published Sept 30, 2025
Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk
From left, Myra Norton, senior director of FastForward, with Carey Business School Dean Alex Triantis and Jordan Green, vice chair for research and translation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research in action
Hopkins researchers pitch future of science and tech at Innovation Summit
Published Sept 25, 2025
Fueled by federal funding, JHU researchers and scientists seek investors to back their ideas to bring discoveries to the market
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Cancer research
New urine-based test to ID prostate cancers
Published Sept 12, 2025
This novel approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies
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Research in action
Flu fighters
Published Sept 10, 2025
Experts at Johns Hopkins and across the country work together to better understand the behavior and characteristics of respiratory viruses, how our immune system responds to them, and how we can prevent serious illness
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Neurology
Hopkins researchers pave way for potential first diagnostic test for ALS
Published Aug 29, 2025
The blood test, with more than 98% accuracy, opens new avenues for early diagnosis, improved patient care, and potential treatment of the neurodegenerative disease
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Hopkins in the news
ICYMI: National media explores effects of federal research cuts
Published July 22, 2025
Hopkins cancer expert Liz Jaffee discusses what federal budget cuts might mean for patient care and future cures; NIH grant terminations affect some of the nation's most promising young scientists, including two Hopkins doctoral students
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Research in action
Pipeline of experts advances discovery in neurofibromatosis
Published July 15, 2025
JHU's Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Francis S. Collins Scholars Program, an initiative that has led to research and treatment breakthroughs for the genetic condition neurofibromatosis type 1
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Essay
Research funding cuts: What's at stake
Published Summer 2025
Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started? / Johns Hopkins Magazine