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Our research draws from biomedical informatics and the related field of biomedical data science to address challenges to translating discoveries into practice.

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News and Announcements

Feburary 6, 2026

Paper published in JAMIA and highlighted on BME Research Hub

Our article titled Assessing genetic counseling efficiency with natural language processing was published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. It was recently highlighted on the BME Research Hub page here.

January 27, 2026

Study featured on All of Us Research Highlights

Our study to help personalize pain treatment after surgery was featured on All of Us Research Highlights here.

January 14, 2026

ICM 20th Anniversary Annual Retreat

Nidhi Soley and April Yan both gave presentations at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine Annual Retreat. Taylor also moderated a panel on "Opportunities and Collaborations in Computational Heart Health." Panelists were Anum Ninhas, MD, MHS (Cardiology) and Lena Mathews, MD (Cardiology).

January 12, 2026

UCLA seminar presentation

Taylor had the honor of delivering a presentation on "Real-World Evidence for Guideline-Directed Genomic Medicine" at the UCLA Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences as part of their Frontiers in Computational Biosciences seminar series.

December 2, 2025

Lab representation at NeurIPS 2025

Nidhi Soley had a workshop paper titled AttentiveGRUAE, An Attention-Based GRU Autoencoder for Temporal Clustering and Behavioral Characterization of Depression from Wearable Data at the 2025 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems held December 2–7 in San Diego, California.

September 12, 2025

2025 PGRN Scientific Meeting in collaboration with ClinPGx

Taylor was thankful for the opportunity to participate on a panel titled "Advancing Pharmacogenomics Through Biobanks, Real-World Data, and Clinical Implementation" at the Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network (PGRN) 2025 Scientific Meeting in collaboration with ClinPGx. The meeting was held at University of Montana Sep 10-12th, 2025. Taylor discussed NIMHD-funded work on "Assessing real-world implications of genome-guided prescribing."

September 5, 2025

Congratulations to Ilia Rattsev!

Ilia Rattsev was selected for the Quantitative Systems Pharmacology SIG award! He will be recognized during the SIG lunch session at The American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP) that will be held from Oct 18-21, 2025 in Aurora, Colorado. His presentation was titled "Evaluating the impact of pharmacogenomic variants on aromatase inhibitor-induced bone toxicity using a QSP model of bone remodeling."

August 9, 2025

Paper published in Scientific Reports

Our article titled Unveiling social determinants of health impact on adverse pregnancy outcomes through natural language processing was published in Scientific Reports.

July 10, 2025

Congratulations to Nidhi Soley!

Nidhi Soley was selected for the JHU BME Distinguished Teaching Assistant award for her outstanding performance during the academic year 2024-2025! She was lead TA for Precision Care Medicine I-II (BME 580.680-881) offered Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

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