Impact: Faculty Innovation

Fall 2025

A New Approach to Healthy Aging

Bringing together a variety of disciplines to test technology-driven solutions to aging’s biggest challenges.

Fall 2025

A New Era for Organoids

By mapping the myriad cells in human organs with 3D precision, Denis Wirtz and his team are growing living human tissues in the lab.

Fall 2025

Pathways to Entrepreneurship

Faculty turn their discoveries into impactful commercial ventures.

Fall 2025

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Removing Carbon from Wastewater

Engineers find new way to reduce levels of CO2 by running treated water through a process that uses an electrical current.

Fall 2025

Sniffing Out Diabetes—and Air Pollution

A new type of wearable sensor can be used to detect acetone in human breath, a marker for diabetes.

Fall 2025

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Can AI Outperform Doctors?

An AI model is more accurate than doctors at spotting which patients are most likely to suffer from sudden cardiac death.

Fall 2025

A Greener Recipe for Ammonia

Two chemical and biomolecular engineers have developed a new catalyst that could improve how ammonia is made.

Spring 2025

Micro Marvels

Inspired by nature, David Gracias builds micromachines that fold, stick, swim, and sense—all inside the human body.

Spring 2025

On Fire

By better understanding heat transfer, Thomas Gernay is making structures SAFIR.

Spring 2025

Plankton Power

Generating energy from dissolved organic matter.

Spring 2025

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Reducing Epilepsy Misdiagnosis

Why are epilepsy false positives so common—and how is new Hopkins tech helping fix that?

Spring 2025

Balancing Act

Insights into how the brain keeps us steady and upright.

Spring 2025

Waste Not, Want Not

A method for converting organic waste into medium-chain carboxylic acids could be a game changer.

Spring 2025

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Keeping Skin Youthful

A new hydrogel could enhance collagen production and restore skin's youthfulness.