Issue: 2012 January 9
Technology for cancer immune therapies licensed to NexImmune
January 9, 2012
Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer has granted a license for Artificial Immune nanotechnology to NexImmune, a startup company formed in part by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty members who are also involved in the development of the technology. AIM, which involves engineering artificial cells to stimulate specific immune responses, represents a potentially important advance […]
JHM International agrees to collaboration with Kuwait
January 9, 2012
Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) and the Ministry of Health of Kuwait have signed a five-year agreement that calls for JHI to assist Kuwait in improving health care delivery at four of Kuwait’s five secondary-care public hospitals and in developing in-country talent in hospital administration and clinical care. The agreement was signed Dec. 25 by […]
Mediation program to resolve workplace conflicts is launched
January 9, 2012
The university has introduced a voluntary mediation process to eligible staff as a form of alternative dispute resolution to resolve workplace conflicts. The program aims to bring people together with trained mediators in an informal setting to enhance communication and understanding. Examples of conflicts are communication problems with a supervisor or co-worker, a disagreement of […]
Moving new medical devices from labs to patients
January 9, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Award that will result in $5 million in funding over the next five years to speed the movement of new medical devices out of the university’s labs and into hospitals and doctor’s offices. The money will support collaborations between Johns Hopkins […]
Inaugural GSI grants announced
January 9, 2012
How do you improve on a good thing? Johns Hopkins science faculty and staff have plenty of ideas and next week will show the JHU community what they have in mind. As part of the university’s Gateway Sciences Initiative, the President’s and Provost’s offices sponsored a grant program to identify and fund a set of […]
A new leader for Johns Hopkins Medicine
December 19, 2011
Doctor, scientist, teacher, mentor, administrator, leader. The incoming dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine is all of these. But which came first? “My love of science developed first, in high school,” Paul Rothman said. “It was during college that the idea of being a physician first developed, […]
Obituary: Pediatric anesthesiologist Mark Rossberg, 50
December 19, 2011
Mark Rossberg, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine, died Dec. 15 of complications from prostate cancer. He was 50. Rossberg was known for his skill in handling some of the most challenging cases in pediatric […]