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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have funded five new Children's Centers to study the negative effects pollutants in the environment have on children. Nadia Hansel, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, and Greg Diette, professor in the Division of Pulmonary will lead the Johns Hopkins Center for the(...)
Are you waiting in the wings to create the next big medical software start-up? Looking to gain feedback on an original Health IT concept? Join the first Johns Hopkins competition at the intersection of precision medicine and technology innovation: The Precision Medicine Technology Shark Tank Who can participate? Faculty, staff and students at Johns Hopkins University(...)
Is there an ICD-10 code for technological phobias? I may have it. My diagnosis dates back to 1993, when I first encountered email. As a Duke intern, I was consumed by admissions and blood draws and distracted by my fellow intern who sat banging on a keyboard. He introduced me to “this new amazing technology,”(...)
Clifton (Bing) Bingham and Antony Rosen, associate professor and professor in the Division of Rheumatology, respectively, were recently awarded a P30 Core Center Grant from the National Institutes of Health. The P30 is focused on enabling Precision Rheumatology, establishing a new collaboration with Hopkins InHealth. The P30 will use well-established rheumatology centers of excellence (which(...)
Johns Hopkins University has been invited to join the group of over 25 institutions who are collaborating with Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) network, which is designed to help bridge the gap between early scientific discovery and its translation into new medicines through public-private resource sharing. Pfizer’s CTI program pairs leading researchers with Pfizer resources(...)
The 2nd Annual Johns Hopkins University Sleep and Circadian Research Day will take place on Monday, June 27 beginning at 9 a.m. in the Chevy Chase Auditorium of the Sheikh Zayed Building. This event will highlight sleep and circadian science research at Johns Hopkins and local neighboring institutions by: Providing a venue for new and early career(...)
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is hosting an information session to introduce Truven Health MarketScan® Research Databases and discuss how it can be useful to study teams. The session will take place Wednesday, June 22 from 10-11 a.m. in the Tilghman Auditorium in the Miller Research Building. All study team members(...)
The word “bootcamp” conjures up images of drill sergeants training military recruits or similarly inspired fitness training programs. The idea is to improve fitness, strength and stamina by pushing someone to their physical and mental limits. For some of us, it sounds a bit like internship- a time in life that we remember fondly but(...)
On May 11, Michelle Eakin, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, was honored at an awards dinner with President Daniels to celebrate her winning the 2016 President's Recognition Award for Research that Improves the Health and Well-Being of Baltimore for junior faculty. She received $5,000 to continue her collaborative work with Baltimore City Head Start,(...)
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and the Departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering are hosting a half-day symposium, “New Frontiers in 3D Printing at Johns Hopkins University,” on June 10 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Mountcastle Auditorium, Pre-Clinical Teaching Building (PCTB), located on 725 North Wolfe Street. Event check-in, refreshments and a vendor(...)