Adventures from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
What makes someone a leader? Is it an individual who makes the important decisions in a group setting? Or is it someone who is able to dream and carry out his or her vision? For many new postdocs beginning their careers around the country, being put in leadership positions for the first time can be(...)
Aug 18, 2015
Academia is a popular career choice for Ph.D. students. While our graduate studies at Johns Hopkins will prepare us to tackle the research side of an academic job, the reality is that professors are expected to teach, yet training to become skilled educators is minimal at best. Recently, a shift in that paradigm could be(...)
Jun 11, 2015
Dancing with the Hopkins Stars took to the stage on May 26 in a night of incredible energy, fun, glamour and success for United Way, the charity for which the event took place. Proceeds went straight to United Way’s programs for the Baltimore community, and, at night’s end, over $52,000 was raised. Pamela Paulk wowed(...)
Jun 10, 2015
Peruse through a few articles from major journals and you’d likely come across a new buzzword: CRISPR/Cas9. Short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated nuclease 9, CRISPR/Cas9 is a novel way for researchers to manipulate and edit genomes. But gene editing is not a new concept. So what makes this system so powerful and transformative?(...)
Jun 1, 2015
Imagine halls filled with chatter about obscure proteins that could one day be used to identify cancers, idiosyncratic assays to measure single RNA molecules in a cell and homebrew techniques to create the tastiest beer. This was the scene this past April at the second annual Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Retreat. The event was organized by(...)
May 29, 2015
Marc Edwards, Ph.D., has a vision for an innovative kind of lecture series at Johns Hopkins. The postdoctoral research fellow is interested in featuring prominent minority biomedical scientists and clinician-researchers from across the nation in a new program that he calls the Levi Watkins Seminar Series. “When I first came to Hopkins, I felt isolated,”(...)
May 15, 2015
This past week, the first ever “JHU Forum on Race in America” took place with speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates at the forefront. Ta-Nehisi, a prominent writer for The Atlantic, is an active advocate for contemporary issues. Though scheduled months in advance, the talk could not have come at a more appropriate time in Baltimore, with recent(...)
May 5, 2015
Here on campus, Project Bridge is a student organization that aims to bridge the gap between biomedical science and the general public. On April 16th, Project Bridge sponsored a Science Café event about multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a disease that involves the central nervous system and results in damage to the myelin sheaths that(...)
May 1, 2015
On April 28, Johns Hopkins Medicine will put on its inaugural Dancing with the Hopkins Stars, the most recent — and perhaps the most glamorous — iteration of the annual United Way campaign. Ten couples will raise funds for their respective causes within United Way, a charity organization that works to empower communities through multiple(...)
Apr 24, 2015
On March 1, a new year ball was held in Washington, D.C., at the Westin. The event was sponsored by the local chapters of the Fudan Alumni Foundation, the University of Science and Technology of China Alumni Association, the Shanghai Jiaotong University Alumni Association and the Zhejiang University Alumni Association. Attendees were dressed formally. Gentlemen(...)
Apr 7, 2015