Topic: Translational Institute

Smartwatches and fitness bands reveal individual physiological responses to COVID-19 vaccine

Scripps Research scientists find digital biomarkers that could be associated with vaccine-induced immune response.

A personal calling

Scripps Research develops a smartphone app to calculate genetic risk for heart attack

Study showed that at-risk users who downloaded the app increased life-saving statin use.

Digitizing long covid

New research consortium to tackle maternal health disparities with digital technologies

Mobile app-based research platform aims to engage and empower researchers and participants across the country.

Early detection of atrial fibrillation with a wearable patch may help reduce strokes

3-year observational results of novel, home-based clinical trial published in PLOS ONE

Re-engineering clinical trials

Mardi Gras 2020: A Fateful Super-Spreader Event

New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festival of February 2020 appears to have driven one of the worst early outbreaks of COVID-19 in the United States, according to a study led by scientists at Scripps Research.

Digital health researchers explore COVID-19’s prolonged effects

As part of Scripps Research’s landmark DETECT study, scientists are examining physiological and behavioral changes that often last months after a COVID-19 infection. 

Scripps Research collaborates with The Rockefeller Foundation on digital COVID-19 surveillance, pandemic preparedness

A grant from the New York-based foundation will fuel expansion of DETECT, Scripps Research’s sensor-based study for real-time digital detection of viral illness.