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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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Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation (ADVANCE) Celebrates Professor Natalia Trayanova’s Achievement of the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture for 2025
Baltimore, MD, Feb 12, 2024 – The Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation (ADVANCE) at Johns Hopkins University proudly announces that co-director Professor Natalia Trayanova has been awarded the esteemed Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture for 2025 by The Physiological Society. This prestigious accolade honors Prof. Trayanova’s groundbreaking contributions to cardiovascular 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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New study identifies infiltrating adipose tissue as a driving factor in ventricular arrhythmias
A team of computational and clinical researchers, led by first author Eric Sung, PhD, discover in their latest research that fat intermingling with scar tissue is the driving force behind the development of heart rhythm disturbances. This prospective study was completed by two clinical centers, one at Johns Hopkins University Read more…
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ADVANCE researchers receive three Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards for innovative research
The three awards will enable ADVANCE researchers to develop deep learning learning methods to understand the recurrence of atrial fibrillation following catheter ablation, artificial intelligence to predict the risk of sudden death in Sarcoidosis, and computational approaches for arrhythmia risk prediction in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Principal investigator Dr. Natalia Read more…
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ADVANCE launches to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine
Members of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation (ADVANCE) and key Johns Hopkins leadership gathered to celebrate the launch of ADVANCE, the new interdisciplinary research center between the Whiting School of Engineering and the Department of Medicine that is posited to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular Read more…
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Engineers and cardiologists collaborate to create new treatments for heart disease
In a new $5.5 million center that spans engineering and cardiology specialties at Johns Hopkins, experts aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders that affect millions of people by leveraging innovations in cardiac imaging, computer simulations and data science. The new center, called the Alliance for Cardiovascular Read more…