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JHU Selects ADVANCE ECG Deep Learning Project for Discovery Award
JHU Selects ADVANCE ECG Deep Learning Project for Discovery Award Johns Hopkins University’s Discovery Awards encourage faculty from various disciplines to collaborate in addressing multifaceted challenges and pushing the boundaries of understanding. In 2024, 44 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams, chosen from 286 proposals. The ADVANCE proposal, entitled Read more…
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Trayanova Lab Publishes Precision Ablation Study in Nature Cardiovascular Research
Trayanova Lab Publishes Precision Ablation Study in Nature Cardiovascular Research The Trayanova Lab at Johns Hopkins University is excited to announce the publication of our latest research in Nature Cardiovascular Research, “Assessing the arrhythmogenic propensity of fibrotic substrate using digital twins to inform a mechanisms-based atrial fibrillation ablation strategy,” (direct Read more…
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Trayanova Lab’s and JHMI Digital Twin Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
Trayanova Lab’s and JHMI Digital Twin Research Featured in Wall Street Journal On March 16th, the Wall Street Journal featured Dr. Trayanova and her lab’s work with JHMI on “digital twins” of people’s hearts– a method of creating a patient-specific model to study electrical problems and potentially guide therapy in a clinical environment. Read more…
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‘Digital twins’ of patients’ hearts harness personal genetics to inform disease management
A multidisciplinary team of computational and clinical researchers from Johns Hopkins University, led by Yingnan Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate at Trayanova Lab, has made significant strides in cardiac research through the development of an innovative strategy called the “genotype-specific digital twin” (Geno-DT). This cutting-edge approach involves integrating personal genetics into Read more…
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Natalia Trayanova joins $8M international research initiative for advanced heart disease diagnosis and therapeutics
Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor in Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, is part of an international research team selected to receive $8 million from the Leducq Foundation for a project that aims to find new therapies for heart disease by studying the effects of stimulating nerves. Read more here.
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Nature Year in Review 2018: Trayanova on Precision Cardiology
ADVANCE co-director, Natalia Trayanova, PhD, discusses the key developments in precision cardiology in the December 2018 edition of Nature Reviews Cardiology. From a wearable electrocardiogram patch that may reduce the risk of stroke to a personalized virtual heart model that can direct treatment of infarct-related ventricular tachycardia, Trayanova highlights several high-impact advances Read more…
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ADVANCE Researchers Receive $3.15 Million NIH Grant
Drs. Trayanova and Calkins received a $3.15 million grant from NIH grant to develop improved ablation targeting strategies for ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with fibrotic remodeling.
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3-D Virtual Simulation Gets to the ‘Heart’ of Irregular Heartbeats
Members of the ADVANCE team report they have successfully created personalized, 3-D virtual simulations of patients’ hearts for doctors to visualize and perform a life-saving procedure that corrects irregular or rapid heartbeats.