Translational Informatics Research and Innovation (TIRI) Lab

From Personal Health Insights to Clinical Use to Public Value


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We are a collaborative research group in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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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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We pursue projects that address the challenge of how to incorporate technology and digital approaches into research and clinical practices.

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News and Announcements

June 1, 2025

Congratulations to Bhavik Agarwal and Jash Shah!

Bhavik Agarwal completed his MS in Computer Science and his thesis titled “Design and Evaluation of GPT and RAG-Based QA Systems for Genomic and Pharmacogenomic Patient Queries.” He has joined MasterControl as an AI/ML Research Scientist. Jash Shah completed his MS in Computer Science and has joined ServiceNow as a Machine Learning Engineer. He has contributed to a lab project under way automating the review and identification of high-impact genomic medicine implementation research articles. Agarwal and Shah have also contributed to work with other lab members using LLMs to generate synthetic drug-related patient portal messages.

May 29, 2025

Paper published in Scientific Reports

Our article titled Relapse prediction using wearable data through convolutional autoencoders and clustering for patients with psychotic disorders was published in Scientific Reports.

May 12, 2025

Paper published in Journal of Computational Biology

Our article titled DrIVeNN - Drug Interaction Vectors Neural Network was published in Journal of Computational Biology.

March 27, 2025

Paper published in JAMIA

Our article titled Predicting postoperative chronic opioid use with fair machine learning models integrating multi-modal data sources - a demonstration of ethical machine learning in healthcare was published in JAMIA.

January 23, 2025

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Taylor is extremely grateful to be nominated by the National Institutes of Health and to be a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

January 21, 2025

New TIRI Lab Members!

Welcome to MaKhaila Bentil (CS PhD Student), Kamryn Chan (MCB UG Student), Fuchen Li (BME PhD Student, to be advised jointly with Aya Zirikly), and Chloe Sheen (XDBio PhD Student) completing lab rotations with us this semester.

January 20, 2025

Paper published in JMIR

Our article titled Participant Contributions to Person-Generated Health Data Research Using Mobile Devices - Scoping Review was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research.

January 1, 2025

National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR)

Taylor has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR). NACHGR advises the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), on genetics, genomic research, training and programs related to the human genome initiative.

December 12, 2024

Genomic Medicine XVI

Taylor was thankful for the opportunity to moderate a panel at the NIH NHGRI Genomic Medicine XVI event on "Host Genomics and Infectious Disease." The meeting agenda and materials from December 12, 2024 are posted here.

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