Sri Sarma, NTH Director, along with four Johns Hopkins faculty members—Xun Jia, Rajat Mittal, and Mihaela Pertea—have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). They are among 171 engineers and researchers in this year’s class who were at an induction ceremony on Monday in Arlington, Virginia.
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer Sri Sarma is developing new technologies to pinpoint the exact origin of seizures in the brain—life-changing work for the roughly 21 million epilepsy patients worldwide whose seizures aren’t relieved by medications.
Removing the specific brain region where seizures originate is the last resort when medication fails. But current clinical tools make precisely locating the epileptogenic zone (EZ) extremely difficult, rendering surgery effective in only about half the cases. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Sarma and her team help surgeons determine if and where they should operate, improving the success rate of epilepsy surgeries.
NeuroTech Harbor is proud to share that NTH Technical Director Nitish Thakor’s work on an advanced prosthetic hand that ‘knows’ what it is holding and carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling the object was recently featured in an online publication by Johns Hopkins University!
Read more about Dr. Thakor’s work here: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/05/prosthetic-robotic-hand/
New Pathways Pilot Program announced and described here: https://neurotechharbor.org/pathways/
Find applications for the Pathways Program Pilot here: https://colab.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/153/home