2025 Topic: “The Impact of Idiopathic Hypersomnia on Cardiovascular, Cardiometabolic, and Renal Disorder Outcomes.”

Overview

The goal of this focused research award is to improve our understanding of cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, and renal disorder outcomes in patients with idiopathic hypersomnia. The focus of this research award is:

  1. To determine the association between idiopathic hypersomnia diagnosis and the time to the development of cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, and renal disorder outcomes.
  2. Examine effects of focus area 1 stratified by demographic and clinical characteristics, including age, sex, and IH with long vs. short sleep time.

This grant mechanism is a noncompetitive award, with funding informed by reviews conducted by a panel of SRS grant reviewers.

PI Awardee and Team:

PI: Christopher Kaufmann, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
University of Florida College of Medicine

MPI: Rakesh Bhattacharjee, MD, FRCPC, DABP(SM), CBSM, DBSM, FAASM
Director of Sleep Medicine, Rady Children’s Hospital
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of California San Diego

MPI: Tianze Jiao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Co-I: Yi Guo, PhD, FAMIA
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Data Science, and Division Chief of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science in the Department of Health
Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics at the UF
Chief Data Scientist and Director of the Cancer Informatics Shared Resource for the UF Health Cancer Center
Co-Director of the UF CTSI Biomedical Informatics Program
Associate Director of the Office of Data Science Research for the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network

An unrestricted grant was provided by Jazz Pharmaceuticals to the SRS Foundation to fund this research award. Jazz Pharmaceuticals does not have any influence in the management or outcomes of this award.