2025 DOM & WSE Research Retreat Recap

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 Department of Medicine & Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat and Poster Session. We'd like to say a special thank you the committee, everyone who submitted an abstract, our presenters and our admin team for making it a huge success. We had a record number of abstract submissions this year, and we look forward to the collaborations that will come from this multidisciplinary event. We'd also like to thank our keynote speaker, Donald Ingber, MD, PhD, founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, who spoke about "New Insights into Disease Mechanisms and Drug Discovery Enabled by Human Organ Chips."

Lightning Talks

This fast-paced session showcases some of the past year’s best science from the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine and the Whiting School of Engineering. Each presenter shares highlights of their research findings delivered in a five-minute lightning talk.

Sangmoo Jeong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Oncology Center
“Targeting cancer metabolism to stop metastasis”
William Checkley, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
“A decade of research in household air pollution and health: from observational studies to randomized trials”
Jamie Spangler, PhD, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
“Engineered cytokine-antibody fusion proteins to advance immunotherapy”
Andrea Fava, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology
"Toward a liquid biopsy for lupus nephritis”
Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang, PhD, The Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
“Microfluidic digital DNA methylation analysis for sensitive and cost-effective cancer detection in liquid biopsies”
Laszlo Nagy, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, and CoDirector of the Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research
“Spatiotemporal control of regenerative inflammation”
Peter Kazanzides, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Computer Science & Kemar Green, DO Assistant Professor of Neurology
“The Virtual Neurology Clinic: A Human-AI Interface for Autonomous Remote Neurologic Assessments”\
Justin Bailey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Medicine
“Rational design of a hepatitis C virus vaccine”