2026 Mount Sinai CTSA Pilot Project Awardees and KL2 Scholar

Dr. Bilal Naved, PhD, is a Faculty (Instructor) and Schmidt AI Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an MD/PhD physician scientist trainee in the Northwestern Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and...

Dr. Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Mount Sinai Health...

Dr. Yun-Soung Kim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research centers on bridging engineered materials with human physiology to enable clinically...

Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trinadade, MD, and her team are developing SheAligned, a non-invasive, multimodal wearable platform designed for perimenopausal women. It integrates biosensing (e.g., skin temperature, heart rate variability, respiration, sleep, and sweat-based...

Dr. Benjamin Kummer, MD, and his team, SeizAI, are using artificial intelligence to analyze smartphone videos of seizure-like episodes and distinguish epileptic seizures from functional dissociative seizures. Built on a validated machine learning model, the platform...