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Dr. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee is a neuro-oncosurgeon at the Hopkins Hospital. In an interview with The News-Letter, he discussed his medical career and work with the Peace Education Program in Baltimore, for which he was recently awarded the 2025 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service.
Jeff Bowen is a social psychologist who has been an associate teaching professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences since the fall of 2017. He primarily teaches undergraduate research methods and statistics classes and also runs an undergraduate research lab focused on the social psychology of interpersonal relationships. In an interview with The News-Letter, Bowen discussed his lab’s focuses on romantic partnerships, how people navigate both online and in-person social experiences and the methods used to measure these concepts and experiences.
Anicca Harriot, a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins specializing in tissue engineering, was recently awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service at Hopkins’ Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration on Jan. 16. This year’s theme for the award was “Impact: The Power of Communities.” As the CEO of Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM, #VanguardSTEM for short, Harriot has greatly contributed to the community of women and non-binary people of color pursuing careers in STEM-related fields.
As the year prepares to take off, let’s take a moment to reflect on the scientific discoveries that have already made it so special.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women in the United States, with more than 300,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. While approximately half of diagnoses are middle aged women (50-70 years old), about 10% are women under the age of 45 and 20% are women over the age of 70. Current forms of treatment range from surgery such as lumpectomy (removal of a tumor from the breast) and mastectomy (removal of all breast tissue from the breast) to radiation therapy to chemotherapy, as well as multimodal approaches involving two or more treatments.
What is a computer? Typically, one would think of a Mac, Windows or Linux-based laptop or desktop. Going further, one could define a computer as an object made out of silicon and other metals that controls the flow of electricity to make complex calculations. However, computing isn’t just limited to these traditionally known machines. Scientists have long theorized and researched unconventional computing methods using quantum qubits, fluids, cells and molecules.
The Nexus of Open Science symposium took place on Nov. 14, bringing together leaders in neuroscience, clinical research, biomedical engineering and data science to explore topics ranging from FAIR data and software standards to improving the accessibility of AI tools in biomedical contexts like neuroimaging. Among the talks given, Georg Oeltzschner, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discussed a topic that may sound rather familiar to students with Organic Chemistry experience: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To those without previous exposure, however, a NMR spectroscopy diagram may just look like a series of arbitrary peaks.
On Oct. 27, the Whiting School of Engineering announced the selection of seven Amazon AI PhD Fellows. The program, initiated this year, provides $68 million in funding over two years to over 100 doctoral students at nine universities including Hopkins. Students are first nominated internally, and then apply to the fellowship. Along with monetary funding, fellows are issued Amazon cloud-computing credits to support their research and dedicated mentorship with an Amazon senior scientist.
As we round the final corner before fall recess, take a minute to catch your breath with some of this week’s scientific discoveries.
President Ronald Reagan established the month of November as National Diabetes Month to increase awareness about the disease that currently impacts more than 38 million people in the United States, with higher prevalence in American Indian and Alaska Native, Black and Hispanic populations.
One Tuesday morning, while standing next to my club’s harm reduction card, I watched as an elderly woman in a wheelchair pushed herself forward, nearly passing me on her way to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She looked up to greet me, then caught one glimpse of our banner which dons clip art images of a syringe, a small pipe with smoke coming out of it and Band-Aids.
Jo Becuti-Ortiz, a junior majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering working as the undergraduate lab manager in the Betenbaugh Lab, headed by Michael Betenbaugh, described his undergraduate research journey in an interview with The News-Letter.
On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science hosted Aaron Roth, a professor of computer and cognitive science in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, to give a talk titled "Agreement and Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration." This talk involves the results of three papers: Tractable Agreement Protocols (2025 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing), Collaborative Prediction: Tractable Information Aggregation via Agreement (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) and Emergent Alignment from Competition.
The subject of Henrietta Lacks remains an enduring mark of criticism on Hopkins as a reminder that scientific advancement has often come at the cost of ethical accountability. This legacy continues to be honored and examined today through events such as the annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at Hopkins, an event that occurred recently on Oct. 4. This recent conversation sparked my renewed interest in one of my favorite books, Next by Michael Crichton.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley).
The lungfish is a rarely studied organism, with scientific implications that extend far beyond its unassuming reputation. On Thursday, Oct. 23 the Biology Department Seminar Series featured Irene Salinas, an evolutionary immunobiologist at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque who presented her extensive research into the immunobiology of the African lungfish.
As we push through the fall semester, take a minute to learn about some of the recent discoveries and developments in drug discovery, quantum computing and cancer treatment.
In an interview with The News-Letter, sophomore Angelina Dong recounted her experiences as a University Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Hoke lab under Dr. Ahmet Hoke at the Hopkins School of Medicine. Currently majoring in Neuroscience and Medicine, Science and the Humanities, Dong joined her research lab in the September of her freshman year. Her project is titled “MAP4K4 Inhibition as a Promising Treatment for Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Effects of MAP4K4 Inhibition on Paclitaxel Antineoplastic Capabilities.”
The COVID-19 pandemic tested governments, basic research scientists and pharmaceutical industries worldwide, forcing administrations, labs and companies to accelerate and innovate their research at warp speed. Each extra day it took for a treatment or vaccine to reach patients meant more pandemic-related casualties. One crucial factor in vaccine development was the race to understand the viral spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, a crucial viral surface component required for viral entry which had long been touted as a potential target for coronavirus vaccines.
Family has always been important to those working in population genetics. When Sohini Ramachandran was a postdoc, the issue of relatives in a dataset causing inaccurate results was considered a major problem in the field. In a Biology Department Seminar held at Mudd Hall on Oct. 9, she expanded upon two of her related research projects describing the analysis of genomic datasets.