News & Awards

Received Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE BIBE 2021 Conference

Congratulations to Justin and the team for receiving the best conference paper award at the 21th International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioEngineering(BIBE) in Kragujevac, Serbia. Feasibility of a Cannula-mounted Piezo Robot for Image-guided Vertebral Augmentation: Toward a Low Cost, Semi-autonomous Approach – Justin Opfermann, Benjamin Killeen, Christopher Bailey, Majid Khan, Ali Uneri, Kensei Suzuki, Mehran…
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3 Accepted Papers to IEEE BIBE 2021 Conference

All three papers have been accepted to the 21th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering(BIBE) Conference in Kragujevac, Serbia, October 25-27, 2021 Feasibility of a Cannula-mounted Piezo Robot for Image-guided Vertebral Augmentation:Toward a Low Cost, Semi-autonomous Approach – Justin Opfermann, Benjamin Killeen, Christopher Bailey, Majid Khan, Ali Uneri, Kensei Suzuki, Mehran Armand, Ferdinand Hui,…
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Celebrate Dr. Krieger’s Birthday!

The lab prepared a delicious chocolate cake and Turkish delight to celebrate Dr. Krieger’s and lab members’ birthdays on campus. Photo Credit: Onder Erin and Michael Kam

Justin Opfermann passes his DQE

Congratulations to Justin Opfermann for passing his Departmental Qualifying Exam (DQE).

Dr. Krieger is co-editing a special edition on medical robotics in Sensors

Dr. Krieger is co-editing a special edition on medical robotics in Sensors with a deadline of December 20th, 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/M_R

New Post-doctoral Fellow

Welcome to our new post-doctoral fellow Onder Erin from the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, who recently graduated from Carnegie Melon University. Onder will explore magnetically actuated robotic surgery in the IMERSE lab.

Congratulations on Startup Grant

Congratulations to Xiaolong and Star for being awarded a Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) grant on commercializing patient specific vascular graft modeling and analysis software

Congratulations on NIH R01 Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Jin Kang, Dr. Bill Gensheimer, and the IMERSE lab for being awarded an NIH R01 grant on “Artificial intelligence Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (AUTO-DALK)”

Hopkins researchers develop a robotic system to remotely control ventilators

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/09/hopkins-researchers-develop-a-robotic-system-to-remotely-control-ventilators The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a surge of patients requiring mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) rooms. Consequently, the units now require increased staffing of trained respiratory therapists in addition to more ventilators. Every small change on a ventilator requires staff to enter a patient room, which risks potential exposure, and to…
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Autonomous Robots Are Coming to the Operating Room

https://www.wsj.com/articles/autonomous-robots-are-coming-to-the-operating-room-11599786000?mod=foesummaries Scalpel-wielding droids are a long way off, but scientists are at work on devices that perform surgical tasks with minimal human oversight