Sri Sarma and Feilim MacGabhann, both Assistant Professors of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty members, have each been selected as members of the first Johns Hopkins Catalyst cohort. Their proposals were among just 37 selected from over 175 university-wide submissions by early-career Johns Hopkins faculty members.

Dr. Sarma’s project, entitled “Towards a Quantitative Diagnosis of Sleep Disorders: Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Sleep EEG in Good and Bad Sleepers”, will allow her to derive quantitative measures from scalp EEG recordings to accurately diagnose insomnia, which – with a 10% prevalence – is considered the most common and disabling sleep disorder.

Dr. MacGabhann’s project, “Virtual Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials in HIV”, aims to utilize computational models of the course and treatment of HIV/AIDS built by his lab. The goal of this research is to use patient data to build individualized models and use these to run ‘virtual clinical trials’ that can predict the variability across the patient population in the outcome of new treatments.

The Johns Hopkins Catalyst cohort is part of a $15 million commitment by the University to fund faculty-led research over three years. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins press release on the Hub website.

Congratulations to both Feilim and Sri!