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Researchers create digital replicas of individual patients’ organs using data from exams and wearable devices: ‘You can run an infinite number of experiments’

A multi-disciplinary team at JHU has developed a tool called Geno-DT to create a digital replica of an individual's heart, which could inform the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases

Natalia Trayanova is part of an international research team selected to receive $8 million from the Leducq Foundation

Eight abstracts submitted by our lab members were accepted for presentation at HRS Scientific Sessions this coming May (19-21) in New Orleans, LA.

A combined clinical and computational study reveals that fat intermingling with scar tissue is the driving force behind the development of heart rhythm disturbances

Read about David C. Gakenheimer's mission to pioneer the next generation of biomedical engineers featuring lab member Yingnan Nancy Zhang

Dr. Natalia Trayanova and her interdisciplinary team received three Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards for innovative and collaborative research

Read their latest essay in The Lancet

Check out the latest press releases, article metrics, and even a mention on Saturday Night Live!

An algorithm built to assess scar patterns in patient heart tissue can predict potentially life-threatening arrhythmias more accurately than doctors can

Digital, personalized replicas of patients' hearts can help health care providers to better predict who will need implanted defibrillators over time

Julie Shade named 2022 Siebel Scholar. Annual award recognizes world's top graduate students in bioengineering, computer science, energy science, and business.

Yingnan Zhang, a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Gakenheimer Fellowship.

Johns Hopkins method outperforms previous approaches for assessing risk in cardiac sarcoidosis

Julie Shade was named one of two runners-up for the clinical Young Investigator Award at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions 2021.

New algorithm could warn doctors in advance of cardiac arrest or blood clots in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Eric was recognized for his work titled "Digital-heart technology for ventricular tachycardia ablation targeting in post-infarct hearts with infiltrating fat" presented at the APHRS Virtual Congress.

Natalia was named a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for her contributions to the field in a recognition of excellence throughout the cardiology community.

Natalia Trayanova has been selected to receive the 2021 Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship Award, given jointly by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society.

Natalia Trayanova is recognized for her work developing 3D virtual heart models for patients with irregular heartbeats

In proof-of-concept study of 10 patients with atrial fibrillation, personalized models accurately predict where surgeons should destroy diseased heart tissue

This extraordinary honor is conferred only on six women each year from around the world, and Natalia now joins the ranks of this group of scientists, engineers, and CEOs.

Natalia has been selected to receive the Heart Rhythm Society’s Distinguished Scientist Award. She will be honored at the Society’s 40th Scientific Sessions in San Francisco this May

The trial will demonstrate the utility of computer simulations driving atrial ablation procedure in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation and fibrosis.

Academic leadership, engineers and cardiologists celebrate the launching of the new center

Cardiologists and engineers collaborate in new center for heart disease treatments

Titled "On Machine Learning and Simulations Guide Therapies for Arrhythmias"

Researchers have successfully performed 3D personalized virtual simulations of the heart

Physiologist Natalia Trayanova and her team are working on a treatment that could become a future cure for offbeat hearts

Farhad Pashakhanloo wins!

Congratulations!

Natalia answers questions submitted live on Reddit

Dr. Ali chosen as one of JHU PPF winners!

Taking out the middle man by directly integrating engineering to provide diagnoses and treatments for individual patients.

Natalia Trayanova envisions the future of cardiology and electrophysiology advancing through personalised medicine and computational simulations.

Dr. Trayanova participates in briefing in support for NIH funding.

Prof. Trayanova's talk at AF2017 highlighting the mechanisms underlying persistent atrial fibrillation.

Dr. Trayanova's TEDx 2017 talk, entitled "Your Personal Virtual Heart," is on Youtube! Check it out!

Farhad wins award at the 44th International Congress on Electrocardiology in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Pashakhanloo spent more than 60 hours creating an image of a human heart, which has been chosen to grace the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology every month for the next year.

A podcast by Dr. Trayanova on using computational tools to prevent sudden cardiac death, presented by United for Medical Research.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, Dr. Trayanova gave a thought provoking talk about bringing computational models to the clinic.

Precision medicine is here. A virtual model of the heart developed by biomedical engineer Natalia Trayanova and her team promises to personalize cardiac treatment and improve care.

The image will appear monthly on the cover of the journal throughout 2017.

An amazing story of a little girl that got a deadly genetic disorder in only 8% of her cells. We figured out why the disease was so deadly.

Congratulations our lab member Melanie Zile for beating the competition and winning the Student Poster Award at the Mechanoelecric Coupling and Arrhythmias meeting in Freiburg, Germany.

An exciting exploration of emerging technology that might some day harness the power of light to defibrillate hearts. We show how this approach might work in humans.

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A non-invasive, 3-D virtual heart assessment tool to help doctors determine a patient's risk of life-threatening arrhythmia and which patients would benefit most from a defibrillator implant

Our lab now enjoys improved computational resources with the new MARCC system. An article describes how we used it for the purpose of Mending Broken Hearts (scroll down to that title).

"Personalized Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death Using Cardiac MRI and Virtual Heart Electrophysiologic Studies" With Dr. Kathy Wu, Adityo Prakosa, Plamen Nikolov, and Hermenegild Arevalo

Dr. Trayanova interviewed by Hopkins Medicine