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Annie Kathuria

Annie Kathuria

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

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Our hope is that in the future we can not only confirm a patient is schizophrenic or bipolar from brain organoids, but that we can also start testing drugs on the organoids to find out what drug concentrations might help them get to a healthy state.

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Lab-grown brain tissue cracks the psychiatric diagnosis problem

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Leading organoid development at Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins engineers grew miniature brains from patients' skin cells and discovered each psychiatric disorder has its own electrical fingerprint. The organoids diagnosed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with 83% accuracy just by monitoring neural firing patterns—rising to 92% after gentle electrical stimulation.

Updated May 16