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INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Fundamental research that drives advances in medicine
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View Institute Events
Please check this page frequently for information about IBBS seminars and major IBBS symposia.
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Social Touch and Our Post-pandemic Future
The COVID-19 pandemic meant the loss of family gatherings, social outings and, for many of us, physical touch. Neuroscientists Varun Chokshi and Daniel O’Connor explain why physical touch is so important now and in the coming post-pandemic world.
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Image of the Month: Beautiful Sadness
Using dark-field microscopy, a special microscope photography technique, the patterns of specific salt crystallizations in tears can be visualized and preserved forever.
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2021 Science Writers' Boot Camp - The Science of Diversity
Take a look at the dynamic presentations from this year's Science Writers' Boot Camp!
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Basic Science Departments
Among nine basic science departments, more than 150 make discoveries to transform medicine.
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Core Services
The Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences is home to several centralized fee-for-service facilities open to all researchers at Johns Hopkins and beyond.
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Research Centers
Several research centers are supported by the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
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Meet our Faculty
Learn about the research of some of the 150 faculty members affiliated with the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Announcements
Seth Margolis, Shigeki Watanabe and graduate student Chelsy Eddings were chosen for a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes dissertation advisers who are committed to creating healthy learning environments and their graduate students who show leadership strength. As part of the Watanabe Lab, Eddings studies protein homeostasis and neurodegeneration. Read more.
Congratulations to postdoctoral student Nathan Zaidman for receiving an inaugural Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine postdoctoral research accelerator award. The award is given by the school of medicine’s vice dean for education and associate dean for postdoctoral affairs to postdoctoral researchers who have made impactful contributions. As a researcher at the Pluznick Lab, Zaidman studies how irregular protein receptors affect the kidneys.