Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
One of my favorite things about Johns Hopkins is that I get to count some pretty extraordinary people as my friends and fellow classmates. One of these folks is Chris Cho, an M.D.-Ph.D. student who is also a first-year graduate student in the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program. Chris graduated from Yale […]
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults in the world are overweight, making them candidates for chronic disease and disability. Many of these people have one thing in common: They unconsciously start eating sweet and high-calorie foods to deal with stress and anxiety. And though later detriments to health may ultimately […]
Soroosh Solhjoo ⋅ Perspectives in Research Neuroscience, Neurotransmitter, Stress ⋅
“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 […]
Paul Sirajuddin ⋅ Events and Happenings Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ⋅
Does anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche. We had two choices: We were either good at solving equations or writing essays. That may have seemed true when we were young, but as professionals we now know that […]
Shannen Cravens ⋅ A Day in the Life Communication, Lessons Learned in Graduate School, STEM ⋅
While most graduate students are worried about their next exam or an upcoming experiment, Carmen Kut, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is quietly immersed in her latest endeavors to create meaningful medical products for those in need. Since her time as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins […]
Kirstie Keller ⋅ Perspectives in Research Biomedical Engineering, Global Health, school of medicine ⋅
In 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 […]
An 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 […]
Arielle Medford ⋅ A Day in the Life, Events and Happenings class of 2015, match day, school of medicine ⋅
Troubling tales of race, poverty and violence seem to span the contours of today’s media. However, University of Pennsylvania criminologist Sara Heller’s research1, published last month in Science, contributes a hopeful voice to the dialogue. In a randomized controlled trial of disadvantaged youth in Chicago, her study shows a significant link between joblessness and youth […]
Benjamin Oldfield ⋅ Perspectives in Research youth science ⋅
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, microRNAs have been implicated in a variety of human conditions. Most recently, however, microRNAs are being scrutinized under a different light: not as causative agents in human diseases, but rather as potential guides for cancer detection. The microRNA is a short nucleotide sequence, usually 21 to […]
Xuan Pham ⋅ Perspectives in Research colorectal cancer, microRNA, RNA ⋅
Imagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by her mother. She is visibly angry upon arrival, and her mother looks tired and distressed. When you enter the room, the young girl begins the interaction with foul language. She […]
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah ⋅ A Day in the Life mental health, pediatrics ⋅