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Seed grant awards. Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Overlaid over Malone Hall.

Announcing new Seed Grant Awards

The new grants will fund engineering innovations that aim to: introduce next generation assistive robots for children with autism spectrum disorder; advance shared-control strategies for skills assessment in robotic surgery; a develop artificial-intelligence based tools to evaluate therapies for vascular anomalies

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Responding to an urgent need

When the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare's faculty were eager—and more than able—to help.

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These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race, WIRED

Radiologist Paul Yi, a Malone Center faculty affiliate, was quoted in a WIRED article on a new study showing algorithms can detect race in medical images.

Headshot of Joel Bader.

Joel Bader to serve as interim director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare

Bader will begin serving as the interim director for the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare on July 1.

Seed grant awards. Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Overlaid over Malone Hall.

Announcing 2021 Faculty Seed Grant Awards

The new grants will fund engineering innovations that aim to: identify pediatric patients at high risk of developing COVID-19 complications; understand and reduce bias in deep learning algorithms for radiology; and uncover mechanisms responsible for inequitable health outcomes for COVID-19.

The Da Vinci Surgical Robot operates on colorful shapes.

The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now, The New York Times

Russ Taylor, Greg Hager, and Axel Krieger spoke to The New York Times about the future of AI and robotics in surgery.