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Young Investigators’ Day was established in 1978 to recognize young investigators who are training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and to provide them with a forum for presentation of their work. The awards recognize research undertaken by applicants while registered as students or postdoctoral fellows at the Johns Hopkins University School of(...)
This year, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund will disburse $8.2 million in grants and loans to promote state-funded stem cell research and cures. The MSCRF supports technologies at all stages of development from discovery to commercialization. To be considered, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs must submit applications by Thursday, Jan. 18. Here are programs currently(...)
As many of you know, I have a profound passion for scientific discovery. Part of what excited me most about directing this department was the vast pool of scientists and the available resources we have as part of the premier research university in the country. One of my goals as director has been and continues(...)
The 2017 Mid-Atlantic Capital Cardiology Symposium (MACCS): Controversies & Challenges in Cardiology took place in November with a great turn out of DOM award winners: Stephen Chelko, research associate in the Division of Cardiology, won the Capital Young Investigator Award for Basic/Preclinical Olurotimi Mesubi, fellow in Cardiology, won a Best Poster Award from the MACCS as well as the(...)
The event, entitled The Responsible Management of Data for the Basic Sciences, will feature presentations by Randy Reed, PhD, assistant dean for research, co-director of the Center for Sensory Biology and professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neuroscience and Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery; and Anne Seymour, MS, director of the William H. Welch(...)
Andrew Feinberg, professor and director of Molecular Medicine, has published two papers in Nature Genetics this year that address the role of stochasticity, or controlled randomness, in cancer and in development generally. It's a new area pioneered by Dr. Feinberg and his colleagues in the Whiting School of Engineering. In one paper, they show that pancreatic cancer metastasis(...)
The Clinical Research Forum’s Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards honor outstanding accomplishments in clinical research. This annual national competition seeks to identify major advances resulting from the nation’s investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its citizens. Winners are recognized at the Clinical Research Forum Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Selection(...)
Faculty from all ranks and across the entire spectrum of basic, clinical and population research face substantial barriers to implementing their research ideas. From trying to calculate sample size for a grant application to conceptualizing the design and implementation of clinical research, faculty could benefit from access to best practices, research methods expertise and interested(...)
Five Department of Medicine faculty members have been named Highly Cited Researchers 2017 by Clarivate Analytics, which was previously part of Thomson Reuters, which identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as Highly Cited(...)
This year’s Annual Johns Hopkins Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare will be held on Monday, November 20 from 8:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m. in the Chevy Chase Auditorium, Sheikh Zayed Tower, JHU East Baltimore campus and is co-hosted by the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. The symposium’s focus is(...)