On Jan. 16, Senior Research Specialist Sarah Ernst at Hopkins School of Medicine was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award for her work building “Maryland Lighthouse,” demonstrating this year’s theme – “Impact: The Power of Communities.”
In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Fertig’s talk centered around rethinking how we can predict and monitor the carcinogenesis of pancreatic cancer through a spatial biology and computational lens.
Professor Younan Xia is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Hopkins well reputed for his extensive experience and work with nanomaterials. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a significant accomplishment. In an interview with The News-Letter, he discussed his research and shared some of his insights.
In honor of its 150th anniversary, Hopkins launched the “Next Conversations” series on Feb. 18, held at the George Peabody Library.
On Thursday, Feb. 19, the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health invited Dr. Charlotte Yeh to talk about the intersection of technology, business and health within the field of age-related hearing loss.
In an interview with The News-Letter, Hantsoo explained one of her current studies along with her thoughts on the changing landscape of reproductive health.
Take a few minutes to catch up on some intriguing recent scientific developments.
On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research on the various ways tissue resident macrophages shape embryonic salivary gland development as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series.
Rebecca Schulman is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins who is currently working on developing new materials that both contain and process information. Schulman recently won an NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award for a proposal seeking to harness molecular computing to more efficiently grow organs in vitro.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an interview with The News-Letter, Dr. Jenni Sheng, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at the Hopkins School of Medicine, discussed her journey in treating breast cancer patients as well as her clinical outcomes research, specifically in how to improve cardiometabolic health in breast cancer survivors by leveraging diet and activity.
In an interview with The News-Letter, Pandey reflected on her passion for interdisciplinary research and the effect of Fulbright experience, which have solidified her desire to create collaborative, globally informed solutions in neurodegenerative disease and healthcare engineering.
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 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.
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.
In an interview with The News-Letter, Tom Donner, the Director of The Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center, discussed more about the endocrine disorder and his current research with type 1 diabetes.
As we round the final corner before fall recess, take a minute to catch your breath with some of this week’s scientific discoveries.
