Congratulations to Dr. Pooyan Mobtahej, Jacob Thomas, Sarvenaz Ghaedi, and the Sajjadi lab for their achievement!
Dr. Pooyan Mobtahej, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Ahmad Sajjadi‘s lab in the Department of Neurology, along with lab members Jacob Thomas and Sarvenaz Ghaedi, presented their project LAMON at the Stella Zhang New Venture Competition. The group received not one, but two awards:
- Life Science Track Award ( $10,000)
- Beall Applied Innovation Specialty Award ($10,000)
LAMON, which originated from research conducted in Dr. Sajjadi’s lab, focuses on the early detection of dementia using speech-based digital biomarkers and transformer models.
