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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

Mobile COVID-19 Testing Booths Help Health Care Providers Test Patients Without Risking Own Health

Jiawei Ge and Lydia Zoghbi are working on building testing booths for medical providers.

MRE Lab Moving to JHU

Medical Robotics and Equipment Lab is moving to Johns Hopkins University this summer, 2020. The new name of the lab is IMERSE which stands for Intelligent Medical Robotic Systems and Equipment Lab.

Received Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE BIBE Conference

Congratulations to Bharat and the team for receiving the best conference paper award at the 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioEngineering in Athens, Greece.