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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...


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...


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...


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...


‘Intelligent’ Surgical Drill Wins Third-Place Prize for JHU Student Inventors

An "intelligent" drill developed by Johns Hopkins students to improve orthopedic surgical procedures was awarded third-place honors in the undergraduate division of the 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition. more...


Whiting School of Engineering students take a Jhpiego field trip

Aspiring biomedical engineers test ideas in India, Nepal, Tanzania more...


Award Winning CBID Design Team Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell

A biomedical engineering student and faculty team from Johns Hopkins University that developed a system to make spinal surgery more successful in patients with osteoporosis will ring the Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell today. more...


Brain Cooling Device Wins First-Prize for JHU Students

A brain-cooling invention that could improve the survival prospects for cardiac arrest patients has won a $10,000 first-place prize for a Johns Hopkins undergraduate team... more...


‘Rapid Hypothermia Induction Device’ Team wins BMEidea 2010

The winners of the 2010 BMEidea Awards were announced on June 11 at the Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony in New York. more...


Engineering students seek to solve real-world challenges

Homewood, East Baltimore campuses host design showcases. more...


Students Embed Stem Cells in Sutures to Enhance Healing

JHU biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread...more...


Engineering Design Days: Student Projects in the Spotlight

After months of brainstorming, building and testing, teams of engineering undergraduates put their projects on display last week at two daylong Design Day events. more...


Illustrator, AutoCAD, & ANSYS Offer ICU Patients Mobility

Biomedical engineering students fabricate the ICU MOVER Aid to determine if increased activity assists in recovery. more...


So the Medicine Goes Down

Christopher Yu never considered the problem of getting vaccines to children in poor countries. Now he hopes to be part of a solution. more...


Getting Up and Around, Even in Intensive Care

At some point, biomedical engineering majors at Johns Hopkins must take a two-semester course in which they are divvied up into teams and assigned to a professor who has a real-world challenge. more...


Medical Metal Detector Finds ‘Lost’ Orthopedic Screws

Undergraduates' Invention Emits Tone to Guide Doctors to Hidden Hardware. more...