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This newsletter details our latest Breakthrough Grant, newest team member, two events we hosted in India, three features spotlights, and a JHU Diwali celebration. Check it out!

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our Breakthrough Research Grant with the Koita Centre for Digital Health – KCDH (IIT Bombay). This funding opportunity supports pilot projects led by faculty members from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and The Johns Hopkins University that involve interdisciplinary collaborations.

We are pleased to announce Austin Schmidt, Rose Pollard Kaptchuk, and Manvi Poddar as the 2023 awardees of GKII’s Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel Grant supporting field placement projects with the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health.

The Maryland Department of Commerce announced that it has awarded $1 million in support of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, also known as CDHAI, housed at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. That award was matched by $1.97 million in qualified donations.

Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Researcher Award from IEEE Computer Society’s Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee.

Researchers led by Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of biostatistics and genetic epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, have developed a new method with significant potential to improve the performance of polygenic risk scores in minority populations. The method, called CT-SLEB, is detailed in a paper published in Nature Genetics.