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Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Sua Myong, and Taekjip Ha among the Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards: 2017 Awardees
In 2017, 23 Category 1 Discovery Awards and 3 Category 2 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across nine Johns Hopkins divisions. From investigating the use of advanced hydrogels in […]
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Prof. Karen Fleming Wins 2016 Thomas E. Thompson Award
Karen Fleming, professor in the Department of Biophysics, is the recipient of the 2016 Thomas E. Thompson Award from the Biophysical Society for her contribution in the field of membrane […]
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Biophysics Majors in Arts & Sciences Magazine
Biophysics majors describe why they love their major, in three sentences or less. Read their statements in Arts & Sciences Magazine.
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Biophysics Major Named NSF Graduate Research Fellow
The National Science Foundation has selected 2,000 Graduate Research Fellows from across the country, including 18 current Johns Hopkins University students. Shawn Costello is a senior graduating with a degree in biophysics. Shawn's research, performed in Karen Fleming's laboratory, has focused on the kinetics of bacterial outer membrane protein biogenesis. In the fall Shawn will begin a PhD in biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Amazing Spider Silk: Super-Elastic Proteins Key to Spider Web’s Stretchiness
Biophysicists at Johns Hopkins University have discovered one of the keys to the super-elasticity of spiders' webs, finding that proteins in the silk used to make the webs act like supersprings and can stretch to five times their initial length. Read the article on The Hub.
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Biophysics Major Quenton Bubb Awarded Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Quenton Bubb, a Johns Hopkins senior majoring in biophysics, will be studying in the Chemistry Department at Cambridge University. The Marshall Scholarship offers him a chance to join the world-class research lab led by Jane Clarke at Cambridge, where he'll study the biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins. Read the article on The Hub.
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New Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Joining Biophysics Department
Taekjip "TJ" Ha is a world leader in single-molecule biology and intracellular imaging. With appointments across the schools of Medicine, Arts and Sciences, and Engineering, Ha will teach an interdisciplinary biophysics course for undergraduate students and conduct research in three labs on two Johns Hopkins campuses. Read more on The Hub.
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Biophysics Junior Wins Prestigious Undergraduate Research Award
Quenton Bubb, a Johns Hopkins University biophysics major, has won a prestigious UNCF/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Award, given annually to 15 college juniors. Read the article on The Hub.
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Experimental ZMapp Treatment for Ebola Virus Has Roots at Johns Hopkins
Mapp Biopharmaceutical, which developed the "plantibodies" used in the treatment, is run by two Johns Hopkins graduates who got their start in the lab of Johns Hopkins biophysics Professor Richard Cone. Read the article on The Hub.