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Learn MoreIlia Rattsev presented a poster abstract titled "A QSP Model Identifies Pharmacogenomic Determinants of Optimal Intervention Strategy for Aromatase Inhibitor-induced Bone Toxicity" at the Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network (PGRN) 2026 Scientific Meeting in Collaboration with ClinPGx held September 26-27, 2026 at Northwestern University in Chicago.
August 6, 2026Kiran Shay and Chenjia Zhang (undergraduate students in computer science) successfully completed their Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI) Summer Internship. This internship project explored real-world data sources for antidepressant side-effects among pregant persons.
July 23, 2026Natalie Wang successfully defended her dissertation in the Computer Science PhD program in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. The title of her dissertation is "Discovering Pregnancy-Relevant Drug-Drug and Drug-Supplement Interactions Using Traditional Pharmacovigilance Resources and Social Media Text." Congradutations on this outstanding accomplishment!
July 9, 2026MaKhaila Bentil presented a poster titled "Beyond Blood Sugar, Consumer Wearables Reveal an Autonomic-Cardiorespiratory Axis Independent of Gycemic Severity in Type 2 Diabetes" at the 2026 AIM-AHEAD annual meeting held July 6–9 in San Diego, California. That work was completed as part of her participation in the AIM-AHEAD Bridge2AI AI-READI Training Program. In addition, CO Taylor is part of the AIM-AHEAD Northeast Hub Leadership team coordinating consortium activities and supporting awardees from the region. She was co-author on the poster titled "Stakeholder Contributions and Impact in the Northeast Hub, A Review of Publications, Presentations, and Grant Success."
July 2, 2026Michelle Nguyen had a BioNLP workshop paper titled FHexchange, Resources for Family Health History Extraction and Normalization From Consumer Dialog Sources at the 20th annual meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (25th BioNLP workshop) held July 2–4 in San Diego, California.
June 4, 2026Our paper titled TASC, a time-aware sequence clustering framework with uncertainty quantification for electronic health record trajectories was published in a special collection of BioData Mining on Advances in Data Mining for Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare.
June 2, 2026This year Iyinoluwa Tugbobo presented our paper titled "Patient Portal Enrollment Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" at IEEE ICHI 2026 held in Minneapolis, MN June 1-3, 2026. He also gave a lightening talk as part of the Doctoral Consortium.
May 30, 2026Michelle Nguyen and Ilia Rattsev both successfully defended their dissertations and earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine! Nguyen completed NIH pre-doctoral training in computational medicine and in clinical research, and her dissertation is titled "Modern Tools for Stakeholder-aligned Family Health History Information Extraction and Data Collection." Rattsev was research program assistant in ICM prior to starting the BME PhD program, and his dissertation is titled "A Mechanistic Modeling Framework for Pharmacogenomics-Informed Predication of Bone Toxicity." Congratulations to them both on this major achievement!
May 18, 2026First author Kevin Gorman was selected for the Clinical Research Informatics Distinguished Paper Award! He presented our conference paper titled "Use of Family Relationships in Commercial Claims Data to Characterize Clinical Events of Patients with BRCA1/2 Cascade Testing" in the TRI39 Cancer Informatics - From Bench to Bedside session on Thursday May 21, 2026 at the AMIA Amplify Informatics Conference held in Denver, CO. The ICM news highlight is here.