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Sharon Gerecht Receives Award to Advance Graft Technology to Treat CAD and CCD

October 10, 2018

Sharon Gerecht, Director and core faculty member at INBT, Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, and professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded funding by The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commissions for her project, “Swine Study of Patient-Specific Small-Diameter Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Arterial Conduits.” Established by the governor […]

An Goffin and Sakul Ratanalert

Goffin leaves ChemBE; Ratanalert arrives

September 19, 2018

An Goffin, senior lecturer and associate director of undergraduate studies, has left the department to move to Connecticut with her family. Sakul Ratanalert joined ChemBE as a full-time lecturer Aug. 1.

ChemBE researchers win major NSF grant to build soft robots

September 7, 2018

An interdepartmental team of Johns Hopkins engineers has received a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build and program tiny, soft robots. The robots are expected to respond autonomously to environmental and physiological cues, an important step toward building soft robots that could travel through human bodies or machines repairing infections or […]

Measure for Measure: Steps toward standardization in the field of cell mechanics

August 17, 2018

A cell’s properties—the way it moves, its shape, its texture, and its stiffness—have an enormous impact on human development, the immune response, and the progression of cancer. But researchers studying those cell mechanics often wind up with different results from their colleagues’, leading to confusion and delaying potential breakthroughs in cancer treatment and immunotherapy.

Bioengineers borrow from electronics industry to get stem cells to shape up

August 16, 2018

Using a technique called micropatterning, scientists discover cellular tension and pressure are key factors in stem cell growth and behavior.

Taking Computers to the Next Level: Rebecca Schulman Leads Team Designing New System that Borrows From Biology

July 17, 2018

If you built the largest, most powerful computer currently feasible, it would have about the same number of transistors as there are synapses in the brain of a 3-year-old child. It would also be slightly larger than a tennis court, and consume 106 times the power needed by the preschooler’s brain. All of which means […]

ChemBE undergrads spend their summer doing research in Belgium

July 12, 2018

Rayyan Gorashi (Gerecht Lab) and Ayon Mitra (Gracias Lab) travel to Belgium as part of the International Research Experience for Students Program, where they do collaborative research on microelectronics and nanoelectronics. Read more > >

ChemBE engineers awarded $1.9M grant to reduce engine emissions

June 1, 2018

They will work to produce a commercially viable exhaust-gas catalyst system that kicks in as soon as an engine is started.

ChemBE Acting Advisory Board Chair David Schmalzer ’64 Receives Heritage Award

May 24, 2018

The award was presented in recognition of Schmalzer’s long service to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Johns Hopkins University.

ChemBE seniors spotlighted in The Hub for their fresh take on acne

May 22, 2018

ChemBE seniors and BFFs Ariana Sherman, Joan Golding, and Anna Garcia developed a fresh twist on the age-old problem of pimples in their Product Design class. Read about their work in The Hub.

PhD candidate Eugenia Volkova awarded APL Graduate Fellowship

May 18, 2018

Eugenia Volkova, PhD candidate in the Gerecht Lab, has been awarded an Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Graduate Fellowship. Volkova studies how the physical properties of ECM-mimicking hydrogels contribute to changes in sarcoma cell migration phenotype. She is an INBT T32 Nanotechnology for Cancer Research Fellow. APL Graduate Fellowships are available to Johns Hopkins graduate students […]

Senior lecturer Carmo Pereira wins prestigious catalysis award

May 16, 2018

Carmo Pereira, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the 2018 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award. This prestigious award recognizes an outstanding member of the catalysis community who has made significant scientific, technological, or organizational leadership contributions to the advancement of catalysis. Pereira, who joined the department in 2015, […]

Students show off diverse, creative solutions to engineering problems at annual Design Day

May 7, 2018

A blood-clotting “super gel.” A mobile app for heart attack recovery. A pizza-delivering drone. A souped-up walker for pediatric ICU patients. Johns Hopkins engineering students have plenty to show off on Tuesday at the annual Design Day.

Interim ChemBE Chair Sean Sun among three Hopkins researchers to receive $250K grants from Schmidt Sciences

May 1, 2018

Schmidt Sciences Nascent Innovation Grants support projects that use data science and technology in innovative ways.

Rebecca Schulman promoted to associate professor with tenure

April 12, 2018

Rebecca Schulman, who joined the department in 2011, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. The Schulman group designs intelligent materials and devices using techniques from DNA nanotechnology. The goal of the group is to understand how to build complex chemical systems for autonomous self-assembly, pattern formation, and detection and response. Major themes include […]

ChemBE doctoral students honored by the NSF

April 4, 2018

Natalia Majewska, second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has won a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. ChemBE doctoral candidates PJ Krohl and Josh DiGiacomo won honorable mentions, and alum Weitong Chen (BS ’15) was named a Fellow. Majewska, a member of Michael Betenbaugh’s lab, studies glycosylation in Chinese […]