Tapping Innovative Solutions and Technology at Johns Hopkins Medicine
Doctors and engineers from Johns Hopkins have developed a mechanical technology aimed at producing better data from biopsies. Rather than a few single-needle samples, the new approach gathers hundreds—even thousands—of tiny tissue samples from many sites.
Each month, nearly 1,000 visitors to hopkinsmedicine.org voluntarily answer survey questions about their expectations of and experience on the website. Their answers provide insights into what is being done well and areas that need improvement.
“We’d love to take a microscope, zoom inside a patient with cancer and visualize a tumor, but we can’t,” says Peter Searson, director of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Instead, Searson set out to build a device that could show how cancer spreads.
Albert Lardo is developing a technology that could eliminate more than 1 million unneeded cardiac catheterizations in the U.S. each year.
In December 2014, eye surgeon Jim Handa performed the first procedure at The Johns Hopkins Hospital to surgically implant a retinal prosthesis, also known as a bionic eye.
