Health
Responding to growing national health challenges
Johns Hopkins APL is transforming health care by bringing significant new data analytics and systems engineering capability to the field of medicine that will enhance the nation’s ability to predict, prevent, and detect illness and injury.
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Learn more about Eliminating Forever ChemicalsEliminating Forever Chemicals
Multiple studies have linked PFAS exposure to harmful health effects in humans and animals, and without a natural way to break them down, the chemicals persist in soil and contaminate the environment — including water. APL scientists are developing several technologies to capture and destroy these "forever chemicals." -
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Learn more about Durable and Portable Therapeutics ProductionDurable and Portable Therapeutics Production
APL experts have made significant strides in developing methods for portable production of vaccines and other therapeutics, enabling production on demand in remote locations and during emergency outbreaks. -
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Learn more about Mapping the Brain for Machine LearningMapping the Brain for Machine Learning
APL leads several test and evaluation efforts for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONs) project, launched to develop state-of-the-art machine learning capabilities by modeling how the brain processes information. -
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Learn more about The Systems Approach to Saving LivesThe Systems Approach to Saving Lives
APL’s thought leaders are stirring discussions on the importance of taking a systems approach to health care. -
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Learn more about Health SurveillanceHealth Surveillance
APL’s leadership in electronic disease surveillance, both at home and abroad, is making a difference on the front lines of protecting the health of a population. -
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Learn more about Army Environmental Health ResearchArmy Environmental Health Research
APL and the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research are developing capabilities to detect, assess, and prevent effects from exposure to toxic materials—focusing especially on ways to prevent acute and chronic health effects through new biological technologies. -
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Learn more about Revolutionizing ProstheticsRevolutionizing Prosthetics
Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.
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Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL Licenses Powerful Machine-Learning Tools to BullFrog AIPress Release
Mar 29, 2023Johns Hopkins APL Licenses Powerful Machine-Learning Tools to BullFrog AI
Johns Hopkins APL has licensed two powerful machine-learning tools to BullFrog AI, Inc., enabling the company to leverage the software to create life-saving therapies and treatments available to patients quicker. -
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Learn more about Researchers Use Quantum Biology to Understand Human Response to Earth’s Magnetic FieldPress Release
Mar 13, 2023Researchers Use Quantum Biology to Understand Human Response to Earth’s Magnetic Field
APL researchers are tapping quantum mechanics to better understand one of nature’s biggest mysteries — an organism’s ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field and use it as a tool to adjust some biological processes. And they’ve found some surprising results. -
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Learn more about New Advances in Neural Interfaces Research at Johns HopkinsNews
Dec 7, 2022New Advances in Neural Interfaces Research at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have reported research progress on multiple neural interface technologies for functional restoration, rehabilitation and augmentation for people affected by spinal cord injury, upper limb loss and blindness. -
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Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL, Partners Earn NIH Neuromod Prize to Expand Spinal Cord Injury ResearchPress Release
Nov 8, 2022Johns Hopkins APL, Partners Earn NIH Neuromod Prize to Expand Spinal Cord Injury Research
APL joins a University of Louisville-led team developing neuromodulation therapies for spinal cord injuries as part of a National Institutes of Health grant. -
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Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL Develops Methods to Capture and Destroy ‘Forever Chemicals’News
Nov 1, 2022Johns Hopkins APL Develops Methods to Capture and Destroy ‘Forever Chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency recently declared PFAS an urgent public health and environmental issue facing communities across the United States. APL scientists are developing technologies to capture and destroy these harmful “forever chemicals.”
