In 2025, 39 JHU Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across twelve units of Johns Hopkins. Altogether, the winning project teams—chosen from 274 proposals—include 150 individuals representing 12 Johns Hopkins entities.
The following projects involve members of the DOM (listed in bold and pictured respectively).
ARIC AI-ECG: A Novel Deep Learning on Serial ECGs to Predict Cardiovascular Risk Using Longitudinal Data Over 35 Years from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study – Kunihiro Matsushita (Public Health), Natalia Trayanova (Engineering) & Jonathan Chrispin (Medicine-Associate Professor, Cardiology)
Brightness-Invariant Tracking Estimation for Cardiac Tagged-MRI – Jerry Prince (Engineering), Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh (Medicine), Aaron Carass (Engineering) & Joao Lima (Medicine-Professor, Cardiology)
CORRECT-O2 – Counteracting Obscured Racialized Risks by Examining Corporate Tactics in the Pulse Oximetry Market – Theodore Iwashyna (Medicine-Professor, Pulmonary), Cecilia Tomori (Nursing), Ashraf Fawzy (Medicine-Assistant Professor, Pulmonary), Katrina Hauschildt (Medicine-Research Associate, Pulmonary), Kadija Ferryman (Berman), Emmanuel Drabo (Public Health) & Deidra Crews (Medicine-Professor, Nephrology)
Development of a Scalable Behavioral-psychosocial Intervention to Address the Syndemic of Maternal Obesity and Postpartum Depression – Kelly Bower (Nursing), Rheanna Platt (Medicine), August Summers (Public Health), Wendy Bennett (Medicine-Associate Professor, GIM) & Lindsay Martin (Medicine-Research Associate, GIM)
Malaria Parasite Biomarker Discovery and Protein Engineering to Design a Better Rapid Diagnostic Test – Jane Carlton (Public Health), Jamie Spangler (Engineering) & Yuka Manabe (Medicine-Professor, ID)
Patient-Centered Biospecimen Market Design: Unlocking the Potential of Biobanking to Drive Discovery and Precision Medicine – Mario Macis (Business), Itay Fainmesser (Business), Marielle Gross (Berman), Clayton Yates (Medicine), Olivia Kates (Medicine-Assistant Professor, ID), Brandi Scully (Medicine), Idris Leppla (Medicine) & Vivian Altiery De Jesus (Medicine)
Transforming Hypertension Care Through Artificial Intelligence: A Multi-Divisional Initiative Enabling Clinicians to Drive Precision Population Health Improvements – Yvonne Commodore-Mensah (Nursing), Harold Lehmann (Medicine-Professor, GIM), Alhassan Yasin (Engineering), Oluwabunmi Ogungbe (Nursing), Lisa Cooper (Medicine-Professor, GIM), Serwaa Karikari (Business) & Judy Greengold (Medicine-Instructor, GIM)
