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

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.

December 5, 2024

BME media coverage of paper published in JBI

Our article titled Taxonomy-based prompt engineering to generate synthetic drug-related patient portal messages was published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics. BME covered our work here.

December 5, 2024

GMWG paper published in AJHG

The 2024 Genomic medicine year in review is now published in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Taylor is a member of the Genomic Medicine Working Group that identified the most significant advances in genomic medicine implementation in the past year for this publication.

November 9, 2024

Lab representation at AMIA 2024

Taylor was delighted to serve as Vice Chair of the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium held in San Francisco, CA. This year we had a System Demonstration of a LLM-enabled chatbot called Stroler to support information needs during pregnancy (presented by Nidhi Soley and Michelle Nguyen), and an accepted poster presentation led by April Yan on "Relapse Prediction through Convolutional Autoencoders and Clustering for Patients with Psychotic Disorders using Wearable Data."

November 5, 2024

Lab representation at ASHG 2024

Ilya Rattsev presented a poster on "A Methodology to Assess Concordance of CPIC Guideline Recommendations with Last Prescribed Treatment - A Case Study Application in a Diverse All of Us Research Cohort" at the ASHG 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

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