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.
Robert J. Johnston, a biologist at The Johns Hopkins University, studying how cells randomly choose their fates during development and Andrew J. Holland, a molecular biologist at the university’s School of Medicine, whose work focuses on how dividing cells create the correct number of centrosomes, have been named Pew scholars for their promising work in the area of health sciences.
June 24, 2014 Tags: Andrew Holland, biologist, cell fate, centrosomes, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, molecular, Pew Charitable Trusts, Robert Johnston, stochastic
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
MedImmune, AstraZeneca’s global biologics research and development arm, and The Johns Hopkins University have entered into a five-year $6.5 million research collaboration.
December 11, 2013 Tags: AstraZeneca, Bahija Jallal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Landon King, Medimmune, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Texas energy entrepreneur and financier T. Boone Pickens plans to give $20 million to The Johns Hopkins University to support daring but potentially vision-saving research at the university’s Wilmer Eye Institute.
October 17, 2013 Tags: bequest, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Neil Bressler, Paul Rothman, Peter McDonnell, Ronald J. Daniels, T. Boone Pickens, Walter Stark, Wilmer Eye Institute
| Category: Giving, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education and Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies have joined forces in a university-school initiative to help transform the East Baltimore Community School into one of the best schools in the city.
August 23, 2011 Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Research and Reform in Education, Center for Social Concern, Center for Talented Youth, Center for the Social Organization of Schools, East Baltimore Community School, East Baltimore Development Inc., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies, Peabody Institute, Robert Slavin, Success for All Foundation, Urban Health Institute, Weinberg Foundation
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News
An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study led by neuroscientist Michela Gallagher of The Johns Hopkins University. The findings raise the possibility that doctors will someday be able to use the drug, levetiracetam, already approved for use in epilepsy patients, to slow the abnormal loss of brain function in some aging patients before their condition becomes Alzheimer’s.
July 20, 2011 Tags: Alzheimer's disease, amnestic cognitive impairment, Arnold Bakker, brain function, Gregory Krauss, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, levetiracetam, Marilyn Albert, memory loss, Michela Gallagher, neuroscience, the National Institutes of Health
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, Uncategorized
In the today’s online issue of Current Biology, a Johns Hopkins team led by neuroscientists Ed Connor and Kechen Zhang describes what appears to be the next step in understanding how the brain compresses visual information down to the essentials. They found that cells in area “V4”, a midlevel stage in the primate brain’s object vision pathway, are highly selective for image regions containing acute curvature. Experiments by doctoral student Eric Carlson showed that V4 cells are very responsive to sharply curved or angled edges, and much less responsive to flat edges or shallow curves.
February 10, 2011 Tags: Current Biology, Ed Connor, images, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JPEG, Kechen Zhang, National Eye Institute, neuroscience, pictures, pixels, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, V4, visual information, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology
The Johns Hopkins University has to date been awarded more than $200 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus package. The 424 grants are financing investigations ranging from how the universe began to how men and women differ in their responses to the influenza virus to new strategies to prevent muscle loss caused by diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The grants also have underwritten the creation of 164 staff jobs, 32 of which are still open.
July 13, 2010 Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARRA, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Charles L. Bennett, Cynda H. Rushton, federal stimulus act, Jeffrey Rothstein, Jin U. Kang, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Scott Zeger, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration, University-Related
Why some people can enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a few beers at a ballgame with no ill effects and others escalate their drinking and become dependent remains one of medicine’s baffling mysteries and a major public health concern. Using a $1 million stimulus-funded grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team headed by Elise Weerts, associate professor of behavioral biology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is using brain imaging techniques to explore whether individual differences in the brain’s opiate receptor system could contribute to a person’s future risk of developing problems with alcohol.
April 19, 2010 Tags: addiction, alcoholism, brain, drug dependency, Elise Weerts, Integrated Program of Substance Abuse Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, opioid receptors, PET scans, social drinkers
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health
