News Brief: Sarma, Beer research featured in JHU Engineering Magazine
Research projects from biomedical engineering professors Sri Sarma and Michael Beer are featured in the Spring 2024 JHU Engineering Magazine, in an article titled “Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Medicine.” Read on for an excerpt from the article:
When arriving at diagnoses and treatment plans, physicians often must look past an individual patient’s particulars to find the commonalities that are at the root of the disease— in other words, to what makes patients the same. Yet this one-size-fits-all approach can lead to suboptimal care, with drugs and other therapies not working as well as expected for many individuals.
To enhance disease diagnosis and treatment, researchers at the Whiting School of Engineering are instead embracing what makes every patient different. Through advances in data science and AI, reams of patient information can increasingly be gathered by sophisticated yet subtle sensors, both in the clinic and out, and then parsed by algorithms for new insights. In this way, through the development of novel software and hardware, Whiting School researchers are delivering on the promise of precision or personalized medicine—where therapies are tailored to a patient’s unique biology.