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?(...)
Events and Happenings
Postdoc Retreat Features Johns Hopkins Research, Professional Development
Posted by Paul Sirajuddin | Events and HappeningsImagine 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
Levi Watkins Lecture Series to Feature Prominent Minorities in Science
Posted by Ryan Lang | Events and HappeningsMarc 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
Speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates Sheds Light on the Issue of Racism at the Inaugural JHU Forum on Race in America
Posted by Bree Yanagisawa | Events and HappeningsThis 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
A Project Bridge Event on Multiple Sclerosis and the Role of Patient Empowerment
Posted by Alisa Mo | Events and HappeningsHere 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
Dancing with the Hopkins Stars: A Dancer’s Perspective
Posted by Arielle Medford | Events and HappeningsOn 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
It Is Our Showtime
Posted by Xin Liu | Events and HappeningsOn 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
New Cancer Documentary Sheds Light on Treatment Advances, Patient Lives
Posted by Paul Sirajuddin | Events and Happenings“Her name was Melissa,” Dr. Bert Vogelstein recounts to the packed auditorium. He’s talking about his first patient as a pediatric resident at Johns Hopkins nearly 40 years ago. “I still remember to this day her parents asking me why this happened to their daughter.” Melissa was a young child who was diagnosed with acute(...)
Mar 30, 2015
Life of Young Physician and Rising ‘Star’ Celebrated at Memorial
Posted by Ryan Lang | Events and HappeningsIn January, a week prior to the holiday celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the Johns Hopkins community gathered to celebrate the life of Idoreyin P. Montague, an accomplished second-year combined internal medicine and pediatrics resident physician. Montague, who was 30 years old, was killed in a car accident on Dec. 24. Hundreds(...)
Mar 23, 2015
Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
Posted by Arielle Medford | A Day in the Life, Events and HappeningsAn earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother Nature welcomed us in perfect allegory. Almost four years later, we’ve arrived at the 2015 Match Day. Friday, more than 26,000 medical students learn where they will be training for the(...)
Mar 18, 2015