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Ophthalmology
On board the flying eye hospital
Published Fall 2025
The mobile medical facility is the brainchild of the late David Paton, a renowned American eye surgeon who graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Suchi Saria
Q+A
Her path to AI and health care
Published Fall 2025 Video
A conversation with trailblazing computer scientist Suchi Saria, who is on a mission to augment human care with the latest in AI and machine learning technology / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Evolutionary biology
A paradox no more?
Published Fall 2025
Researchers take a closer look at how animal species, large and small, evolved to fight cancer and what it means for humans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Clockwise from top left, Pamela Collins, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Charlotte J. Sumner, Donald Warne, and Victor E. Velculescu
Faculty honors
Five elected to National Academy of Medicine
Published Oct 20, 2025
Membership recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements and commitment to service
A detailed city plaza or sidewalk bustles with a crowd of 80+ unique, fictional people walking, running, cycling, standing, and seated. Contemporary men and women use smart phones and tablets on a sunny, comfortable late afternoon. Some wear work uniforms and carry on with their jobs, while others gather in groups to meet casually. A range of ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds are represented in the population, illustrated in isometric view and in bold color.
Economics
New tool weighs tradeoffs in pandemic response
Published Oct 20, 2025
Johns Hopkins-led effort offers powerful new tool to aid health policy by integrating personal decision-making into disease prediction model
A man in the foreground is silhouetted against a computer screen showing temperature readings on a digital map
Environmental health
Cuts to environmental health research portend crisis
Published Oct 15, 2025 Video
With the federal government canceling and scaling back funding in research related to environmental health, scientists worry about the health and economic consequences for society
Jason McLellan
Alum Jason McLellan named MacArthur Fellow
Published Oct 8, 2025 Video
McLellan, who earned a PhD from the School of Medicine in 2009, has transformed vaccine design with his work on viral fusion proteins
Shimon Sakaguchi
Immunology
Nobel laureate conducted postdoctoral studies at Hopkins in the 1980s
Published Oct 6, 2025
Shimon Sakaguchi, one of three scientists honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, spent time at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s
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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