Join BDP Chris Chute this Friday, May 10, for Grand Rounds this week! His talk will be broadcast on Zoom.

BDP Odis Johnson Jr., executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, weighs in on an AI-based weapon-detection system being launched in Baltimore schools.

Read more at the The Baltimore Sun below:

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BDP Vesla Mae Weaver held a conversation about selective hearing—a concept she coined in a 2016 New York Times op-ed—laying out some historical and contemporary examples and considering some of its central dynamics and implications.

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Congratulations to our VP for Research Denis Wirtz and his team for their publication in nature today. Read about their success in mapping lesions in 3D and at the single-cell level and what this might mean for early detection and rational interception of pancreatic cancer.

In this Cell Genomics article, BDP Nilanjan Chatterjee proposes MUSSEL, a method for ancestry-specific polygenic prediction that borrows information in summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) across multiple ancestry groups.

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In a new study, BDP Eliana Perrin investigates The Injury Prevention Program, designed to help prevent childhood injury.

'Honestly, we were surprised by the results,' says Perrin. 'TIPP is a pretty simple program. There's not a lot of bells or whistles.'

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Congratulations to BDP patricia janak for being named an AAAS Fellow. Janak's work focuses on associative learning and addiction, aiming to better understand how drug and alcohol associated stimuli contribute to relapse. Read more here:

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In a new Nature Communications article, BDP Nilanjan Chatterjee proposes a new method for generating multi-ancestry Polygenic Risk scores based on ensemble of penalized regression models. This new method aims to improve predictive power for minority populations.

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Today for Earth Day BDP Daniel Polsky is hosting Secretary Xavier Becerra at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in a fireside chat about health and climate.

BDP Lawrence Jackson hosted an incredible 'day for renewal and reeducation' with a lecture by Dr. Shana L. Redmond that invoked the literary tradition of the rent party. The event ended with an incredible performance by Peabody Institute faculty and dancers.

Measurement errors cannot be responsible for the Hubble Tension, so there is a possibility that scientists have misunderstood the universe and its expansion, BDP Adam Riess says.

From NASA:

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Named a top 10 article of 2023 by BMJ Quality & Safety, BDP Kathy McDonald's qualitative study of diagnostic error experiences in sexual and gender minority individuals explores the unique challenges of SGM patients and identifies solutions.

Read more here: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

'By finding common ground in science, nations with otherwise strained relationships can build ties and establish friendships,' says BDP and Nobel Laureate Peter Agre. Listen to him speak at the Science Diplomacy Summit April 15-16 at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center

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Diplomacy isn’t just the realm of ambassadors—scientists can use their research to build ties with nations, shares Nobel laureate & Bloomberg Distinguished Professors in this Q&A. Listen to him speak at the Science Diplomacy Summit at the #HopkinsBloombergCenter on April 15-16.
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In her symposium talk, BDP Eliana Perrin highlights the importance of primary health care research because it shines a light on policy needs, offers hope for chronic illness, and answers questions on how to reduce costs and increase access.

President Ron Daniels spoke this morning at the Academic Primary Care Symposium 2024 hosted by Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland, Baltimore, organized by BDP Eliana Perrin. He acknowledged the conference's ability to enlarge our area of expertise and drive forward the role of primary care.

In this morning's opening remarks at the Academic Primary Care Symposium 2024, BDP Eliana Perrin emphasizes that attendees look beyond their specific role in primary care to focus on collaboration, innovation, and the ambition of elevating primary care.

This Earth Day, BDP Daniel Polsky and Hopkins Business of Health Initiative are hosting Secretary Xavier Becerra in a fireside chat at DC's Bloomberg Center.

Register here: mailchi.mp/89664c2a29b2/h…

Graduate students advised by BDP Alan Yuille annotated the largest multi-organ dataset in existence, Abdomen-Atlas8K, in just 3 weeks--something that would have taken an experienced human annotator almost 31 years to fully annotate.

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Congratulations to our VP for Research Denis Wirtz whose h-index has reached 100 on Google Scholar!

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