Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Last month, my friend came back from Mount Kosciuszko with stunning photos and a seriously painful-looking sunburn. As I prepared to undertake the same hike… Read More »Recent Study Reveals How the Brain Learns from Others’ Mistakes
This June was Baltimore Pride, a tradition dating back to 1975 that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in Baltimore. Over 200 members of the Johns Hopkins… Read More »Celebrating the Hopkins LGBTQ+ Community at Baltimore Pride 2018
With hundreds of millions of infections worldwide, malaria continues to be a global health threat and burden to vulnerable populations. For decades, researchers have dedicated… Read More »Finding the Missing Piece — the Limits of the Current Malaria Vaccine and How We Can Improve Future Vaccine Design
Remember that time you Googled something and it showed up on your Facebook newsfeed the next day? These oftentimes unnerving, targeted advertising strategies are driven… Read More »Insilico Medicine: A Hopkins Startup Using AI to Enhance Biomedical Research
In the past 400 years, science has revolutionized the planet several times over. Modern medicine has eradicated diseases that once decimated populations, while physicists manipulate… Read More »Modern Papers for Modern Science
I occasionally find myself walking through the dark underbelly of the Johns Hopkins medical campus along “designated laboratory transport” routes. These concrete tunnels allow researchers… Read More »Who Let the Dogs Out?
You are driving on a road and see a pedestrian approaching the crosswalk. You brake to give way. Even such a simple action as this… Read More »Wrapping Axons – an Ongoing Mission Throughout Your Lifespan
For graduate students, the first years of the Ph.D. are packed with an array of hurdles, and it is easy to end up feeling overwhelmed.… Read More »Advice for Fellowship Applications – Part One
As a kid you probably found some decisions by your parents utterly unjust. Perhaps you proclaimed, “That’s not fair!” when you were forced to eat… Read More »That’s Not Fair! — The Neuroscience of Injustice
This blog post is part of an in depth look at research linking sleep and Alzheimers. Read part 1 on the importance of sleep. How is chronic… Read More »Sleep May be a Curious Piece in the Alzheimer’s Disease Puzzle (Part 2)