Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
In a new Science Robotics editorial published today, experts discuss the potential use of robots to combat COVID-19 by decreasing risks posed to humans, safely resuming halted manufacturing and making teleoperations more efficient. Much of the work required in combatting COVID-19 requires “dull, dirty, and extremely dangerous tasks for human workers but suitable to robots,” the editorial authors say, and they point to potential uses such as disinfecting operating rooms, taking temperatures at ports of entry, delivering medications and more.
Russell (Russ) Taylor, Director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at The Johns Hopkins University, and an author on the editorial, is available to talk about the future of robotics and COVID-19.
March 25, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic, robots, Russell Taylor
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Johns Hopkins University experts in public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness will offer a briefing this Friday for Capitol Hill officials seeking facts and perspective on COVID-19 and the new coronavirus as it spreads worldwide.
March 5, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hopkins on the Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, Tom Inglesby
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Launching no earlier than March 6 at 11:50 PM EST, the Johns Hopkins University will send heart muscle tissues, contained in a specially-designed tissue chip the size of a small cellphone, up to the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) for one month of observation.
March 4, 2020 Tags: Deok-Ho Kim, heart tissue, ISS, Jonathan Tsui, NASA, space, tissue engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully created personalized digital replicas of the upper chambers of the heart and used them to guide the precise treatment of patients suffering from persistent irregular heartbeats. These simulations accurately identified where clinicians need to destroy tissue to restore the heart’s normal rhythm.
August 19, 2019 Tags: Engineering, heartbeats, Hugh Calkins, irregular heartbeat, Natalia Trayanova, OPTIMA, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time, and a new Johns Hopkins University study could explain why.
August 5, 2019 Tags: aging, brain, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Susan M. Courtney, Thomas Hinault
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Psychology
A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.
July 15, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, cancer, Nicholas Durr, oncology, student research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. Using a series of snapshots, researchers recently captured such so-called “butterfly effects” in heart muscle cell development, and say this new view into the sequence of gene expression activity may lead to better understanding disease risk.
June 27, 2019 Tags: Alexis Battle, Engineering, gene expression, genes, genetics, heart muscle cells, stem cells, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: biology, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
A new analysis co-led by The Johns Hopkins University identified 25 United States counties that are most likely to experience measles outbreaks in 2019. The analysis combined international air travel volume, non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccinations, population data and reported measles outbreak information.
May 9, 2019 Tags: civil engineering, Lauren Gardner, measles, outbreak, Public Health, The Whiting School of Engineering, vaccines
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in public health, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 12, 2019 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
A new Johns Hopkins study offers promise towards someday being able to non-invasively examine changes in cancerous tumors to determine whether they’ll respond to radiation treatment, before treatment even begins.
February 28, 2019 Tags: cancer, Engineering, imaging, Ishan Barman, pathology, radiation, radiology, Santosh Paidi, tumor, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
A 32-year-old Greek woman is reportedly pregnant from an experimental reproductive technique that uses DNA from three people, the result of the first known clinical trial to use the controversial procedure to treat infertility.
Jeffrey Kahn, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, who chaired a 2016 U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel that examined the science and ethical issues raised by the three-parent procedure, is available to discuss the implications of this new pregnancy and the procedure, known as mitochondrial replacement therapy, which is banned in the United States.
January 24, 2019 Tags: Berman Institute of Bioethics, bioethics, biology, Jeffrey Kahn, medicine
| Category: biology, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded more than $600,000 to offer summer research experiences for undergraduates from backgrounds underrepresented in science and whose own colleges and universities offer limited chances to work on original research.
January 7, 2019 Tags: Amgen Foundation, Joel Schildbach, STEM, underrepresented minorities
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Fundraising, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University-Related
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
November 12, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Coppin State University, diversity, Morgan State University, post-doctoral fellows, School of Medicine, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Six faculty members from the Johns Hopkins University have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
October 15, 2018 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Academy of Medicine, School of Medicine
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Johns Hopkins Hurricane Experts Available.
September 11, 2018 Tags: catastrophic flooding, climate change, first responders, Hurricane experts, Johns Hopkins University, Preparedness, response
| Category: Business and Economics, Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology
Engineers have created an electronic skin, aiming to restore a real sense of touch for amputees using prosthetic hands.
June 20, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Luke Osborn, neurology, Nitish Thakor, prosthetics, upper limb amputees
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
News tips for reporters from stories in the spring 2018 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine.
May 31, 2018 Tags: health and medicine news tips, science news tips
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy, Public Health
Mathematicians and cancer scientists have found a way to simplify complex biomolecular data about tumors, in principle making it easier to prescribe the appropriate treatment for a specific patient.
May 14, 2018 Tags: cancer phenotypes, cancer treatment, computational medicine, Medical math strategies, Personalized Cancer Care
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
An undergraduate student design team is developing a walker designed to help get pediatric ICU patients up and moving as quickly as possible.
May 1, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, undergraduate research
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing
Parkinson’s disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such as tremors and walking difficulties, can vary dramatically over a period of days, or even hours. To address this challenge, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists, working with an interdisciplinary team of experts from two other institutions, have developed a new approach that uses sensors on a smartphone to generate a score that reliably reflects symptom severity in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
April 5, 2018 Tags: brain disorders, computer science, machine learning, neurological diseases, Parkinson's disease, smartphone apps
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in biomedical engineering, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 20, 2018 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
These news tips come from stories in the winter issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine.
March 2, 2018 Tags: asteroid impact, asteroids, Conowingo Dam, CRISPR, environment, environmental engineering, extinction, genetic engineering, phosphorus, silt, water pollution
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing
Two Johns Hopkins University researchers were awarded one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers: election into the National Academy of Engineering.
February 8, 2018 Tags: al Academy of Engineering, Charles Meneveau, Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found how the brain can detect an object’s value almost as soon as we see it.
February 8, 2018 Tags: brain, Ed Connor, Johns Hopkins University, value, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Psychology
Any athlete who’s made it to the Olympics has speed or strength or whatever physical skills it takes to lead the world in their sport. But Johns Hopkins University scientists say those who ultimately bring home gold have also honed the mind of a medalist.
February 6, 2018 Tags: balance, brain, brain science, choking under pressure, Christopher Fetsch, figure skating, Johns Hopkins University, Kathleen Cullen, Olympics, Orientation, skiing, snowboarding, Vikram Chib
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Uncategorized
