{"id":10883,"date":"2018-05-15T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=10883"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:24:42","slug":"in-memoriam-murray-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2018\/05\/in-memoriam-murray-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Remembering Murray Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sachs2_headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10885 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sachs2_headshot-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Sachs\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sachs2_headshot-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sachs2_headshot.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Pioneering scientist <strong>Murray B. Sachs<\/strong>, who led the biomedical engineering department at Johns Hopkins for 16 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2018\/03\/05\/murray-sachs-obituary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in March after a long illness<\/a>. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurray Sachs\u2019 vision, his belief in the value of collaboration at the intersection of engineering and medicine, and his dedication to his department are the reasons why Johns Hopkins remains the world\u2019s leader in biomedical engineering research and education,\u201d says Whiting School Dean <strong>Ed Schlesinger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs joined the faculty of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/som\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine<\/a> as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in 1970. He spent the rest of his career at Johns Hopkins, rising to the rank of professor in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure from 1991 to 2007 as the Massey Professor and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/a>, he established the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute in 1999, a collaboration between the school of medicine and Whiting School. This began the transition of the biomedical engineering department from one housed at the school of medicine to a unique joint affiliation with the School of Engineering. Today, the department is one of the leading biomedical engineering programs in the world, with more than 100 affiliated faculty and nearly 800 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Sachs\u2019 research on how the brain receives and processes sound paved the way for the development of cochlear implants, electronic devices that deliver a sense of sound to people with hearing loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sachs\u2019 research on how the brain receives and processes sound paved the way for the development of cochlear implants, electronic devices that deliver a sense of sound to people with hearing loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[121,2601,2596,1158,213],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-wse","tag-department-of-biomedical-engineering","tag-in-memoriam","tag-murray-sachs","tag-johns-hopkins-university","tag-johns-hopkins-university-school-of-medicine","issue-summer-2018"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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