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The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University is the leading department of Biomedical Engineering in the USA today ranked number one by US News as a graduate program for the past 30 years since it's inception in 1967. The current faculty is around 50 members including the Pioneer of Epigenomics Andrew Feinberg (geneticist) having discovered epigenetic alterations in human cancer with Bert Vogelstein in 1983, the Pioneer Taekjip Ha of modern nano-technologies for visualizing the movement of single molecules including optical tweezers , the Pioneer Michael I. Miller of Computational Anatomy a modern theory of shape and form, the Pioneering computational genomist Steven Salzberg, the Neuroengineer Xiaoqin Wang who first showed the representation of pitch in primary auditory cortex, the Pioneer of Computational Medicine Raimond Winslow.

History
Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University was first established in 1946 as a Division of Biomedical Engineering within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The PhD program began in the early 60's as the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Samuel Talbot as the head. Richard J. Johns lead the department from 1965-1991 and is the individual credited with leading the discipline nationwide into the 21st Century. Richard Johns was a colleague and contemporary of the core leaders in the School of Medicine including the then Director of Medicine A. McGehee Harvey and Richard Ross the then Dean of Medicine and with whom Johns wrote the most influential book of their time for training Medical students in Internal Medicine entitled the Principles and Practices of Internal Medicine .

During this period Richard Johns articulated the need for the modern field of Systems Biology coining the term "Systems Biology"in an Annual Report within BME in 1972-1973. During this period the program was only a graduate program in the School of Medicine. In 1981, Richard Johns and David VandeLinde the then Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering launched the start of the undergraduate program at the Homewood campus. The first undergraduate program director was Eric D. Young.

The Founders of the Department of Biomedical Engineering were leaders in the earliest era of Computational Neuroscience including in the Auditory Cortex Moise H. Goldstein, Jr. and Murray B. Sachs and Eric D. Young , and in the somatosensory system Ken Johnson, in the occulomotor system David A. Robinson , in the Cardiovascular system founding pioneers included Artin Shoukas , Kiichi Sagawa , and Lawrence Schramm .

Academic Staff: Professors

 * 1) Angelo H. All, M.D. MBA Neural Engineering, Systems Physiology, Translational Medicine
 * 2) Michael Beer, PhD Genetic Engineering, Genomic Engineering, Systems Biology
 * 3) Patrick Cahan, PhD Computational Medicine, Molecular and cell engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Systems Biology
 * 4) Vikram S. Chibb, PhD     Human Modellng and Simulation, Neural Engineering, Rehabilitation Engineering
 * 5) Kathleen Cullen, PhD Neuroengineering, Systems Physiology,
 * 6) Nicholas Durr, PhD Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Instrumentation, Medical Devices
 * 7) Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD Immunoengineering, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine,Translational Medicine
 * 8) Andrew Feinberg (geneticist), MD, MPH Genomic Engineering, Systems Biology
 * 9) Harry Goldberg, PhD
 * 10) Warren L. Grayson, PhD Biomaterials, Immunoengineering, Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering, Traslational Medicine
 * 11) Jordan J. Green,PhD Biomaterials, Biomolecular Engineering, Drug-Cell Delivery, Immunoengineering, Nanomedicine
 * 12) Taekjip Ha, PhD        Biomedical Imaging, Genetic Engineering, Mechanobiology, Molecular-Cell Engineering,
 * 13) Daniel Herzka, PhD
 * 14) Rachel Karchin, PhD Computational Medicine, Precision Medicine,
 * 15) Scot C. Kuo, PhD    Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Instrumentation, Molecular and Cell Engineeering
 * 16) Xingde Li, PhDBiomedical Imaging, Biomedical Sensor,Biosignal Processing,Medical Technology,TranslationalMedicine
 * 17) Richard J. Johns, PhD
 * 18) Feilim Mac Gabhann, PhD Computational Medicine, Precision Medicine, Systems Biology
 * 19) Michael I. Miller, PhD   Biomedical Analytics, Biomedical Imaging, Computational Medicine, Neural Engineering
 * 20) Aleksander S. Popel, PhD Biomechanics, Molecular and Cell Engineeering, Systems Physiology, Systems Biology
 * 21) Murray B. Sachs, PhD Computational, Neural Engineering
 * 22) Steven L Salzberg, PhD  Biomedical Analytics, Genomic Engineering,
 * 23) Sridevi V. Sarma, PhD    Neural Engineering, Precision Medicine, Systems Physiology
 * 24) Lawrence P. Schramm, PhD
 * 25) Reza Shadmehr, PhD    Human Modelling and Simulation, Neural Engineering, Systems Physiology
 * 26) Artin A. Shoukas, PhD
 * 27) Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, PhD Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Instrumentation,Medical Technology, Medical Robotics
 * 28) Jamie Spangler, PhD    Molecular and Cell Engineering, NanoMedicine, Regenerative Medicine, Synthetic Biology,
 * 29) J. Webster Stayman, PhD Biomedical Imaging, Medical Devices, Medical Technology, Translational Medicine
 * 30) Nitish V. Thakor, PhD Biomedical Sensors, Computational Medicine, Neural Engineering
 * 31) Winston Timp, PhD Genetic Engineering, Genomic Engineering, Micro and nanobiotechnology
 * 32) Natalia Trayanova, PhD Biomedical Sensors, Computational Medicine, Human Modelling Simulation
 * 33) Leslie Tung, PhD
 * 34) Rene Vidal, PhD Biomedical Analytics, Biomedical Imaging, Computational Medicine
 * 35) Joshua T. Vogelstein, PhD Biomedical Analytics, Biomedical Imaging, Computational Medicine, Neural Engineering
 * 36) Xiaoqin Wang, PhD   Neural Engineering,
 * 37) Raimond L. Winslow, PhD Computational medicine, Precision Medicine, Systems Physiology
 * 38) Kevin J. Yarema, PhD Biomaterials, Drug and Cell Delivery, Molecular and Cellular Engineering
 * 39) Youseph Yazdi, PhD
 * 40) Eric D. Young, PhD  Neural Engineering
 * 41) Wojciech B. Zbijewski, PhD  Biomedical Analytics, Biomedical Imaging, Orthopaedics, Translational Medicine
 * 42) Kechen Zhang, PhD  Neural Engineering

Areas
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering is home to around 50 academic and research faculty The Department's doctoral program has over 150 graduate students studying for a Ph.D. and approximately 50 students studying for a Master's degree working across a wide range of concentrations which are broadly defined within the field of Biomedical Engineering: