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Hopkins Celebrates 100 Years of Engineering!

This year the Whiting School of Engineering begins our celebration of 100 years of engineering at Johns Hopkins. more...


Hopkins BME Students Discuss their Innovations at NCIIA Open Minds Exhibition

BME undergrads demonstrate an integrated bunch biopsy for skin cancer diagnosis at the annual NCIIA's Open Minds Exhibition. Check out their medGadget interview and video. more...


Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineer Wins Sloan Fellowship

Biomedical engineer Feilim Mac Gabhann of The Johns Hopkins University has won a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship to support his combined experimental-computational approach to developing new ways to treat major human diseases, including cancer, peripheral artery disease and HIV. more...


Hopkins BME Faculty to Speak at the National Value Driven Engineering Conference

Johns Hopkins BME faculty members Soumyadipta Acharya, MD, PhD, A. Jay Khanna, MD, MBA and Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA take part in this years National Value Driven Engineering Conference in Akron, Ohio.  more...


Day of Birth Alliance Focuses on Saving Lives of Mothers, Newborns With New Tools, Technologies for

From a university lab in Baltimore to a medical device powerhouse in Stavanger, Norway, a team of student biomedical engineers, public health experts and industrial innovators are on a mission...more...


Johns Hopkins BME Receives Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partnership Award

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Award that will result in $5 million in funding... more...


Making the Rounds

Innovating in Baltimore: Back home, CBID students work with Johns Hopkins clinicians to engineer new tools and methods to improve health care. more...


Lifesaving Solutions

For Biomedical Engineering students working in the world's poorest regions, necessity is the mother of invention. more...


CBID DESIGN DAY 2012

SAVE the DATE! Monday, May 7, 2012 JHU School of Medicine.  More exciting info coming soon!


CBID Now Accepting Graduate Program Applications for the 2012-2013 Academic Year

Learn more about how to take the next step in Bioengineering Innovation and Design. more...


Jhpiego Receives Multi-year Award for Medical Innovation

Jhpiego, a global health non-profit working to prevent the needless death of women and families, has unveiled plans for a multi-year program to develop inexpensive life-saving solutions... more...


CBID Students Recognized for Innovation at 2011 BMES Meeting

A Minimally Invasive Skin Biopsy Device for Skin Conditions in the Epidermis, has earned a team of JHU BME students First-Place Honors and $10K. more...


CBID Students Blog from Asia and Africa

Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design students report from Asia, Africa and India while studying the health needs of the poor more...


How to: Harvest Stem Cells from Cord Blood

Blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta of a newborn contains a wealth of stem cells that can be used in transplant surgery; to treat leukemia, various other cancers, and blood disorders more...


CBID Students get a Boost for ‘Magic’ Marker

A unique partnership between students and clinicians is paving the way for innovative medical devices that could help solve some of the most pressing health care problems. more...


CBID Students Live on CNN!

Call it climbing to the top of the bracket. Call it the Final Four. But whatever you call it, call it impressive. Here are two students discussing one project on CNN. more...


Student Team Wins Top Prize for Device That Could Cut Risks in Dialysis Treatment

A device that could reduce key health risks facing kidney-failure patients who are connected to dialysis machines has won a $10,000 first prize more...


A Better Way to Collect Stem Cells from Cord Blood

Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta,... more...


The Pen is Mighter than the Dipstick!

Simple diagnostic tests, such as those conducted with a urine dipstick, can be extremely effective it paving the way for life-saving treatments. more...


Johns Hopkins Students Win Global Health Prize

A team of Johns Hopkins graduate students who developed a low-cost health kit designed to screen pregnant women in developing countries for life-threatening conditions won the grand prize this week in an international competition... more...