Grant and Award Announcement

Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Stevens Institute of Technology AI expert Samantha Kleinberg will try to better understand the relationship between nutrition and an individual’s biological, cultural, and economic profiles.

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D., received a $628,188 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to use machine learning algorithms to improve graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) treatment strategies. Her studies will validate biomarker panels that may help doctors to determine each bone marrow transplant patient’s risk of developing chronic GVHD and adjust his or her immune suppression treatments accordingly.

Asaf Cidon, assistant professor of electrical engineering and of computer science, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to build a new software framework that will speed up cloud computing and improve storage operations. The five-year, $508 thousand dollar grant, the NSF’s most prestigious award given to junior faculty to support early-career development, will support his proposal, “In-Kernel Execution of Storage Functions.”

UMass Lowell scientists are developing a production method to freeze-dry COVID-19 vaccines activated by messenger-RNA so they can be transported and stored at room temperature.

Researchers with the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute at West Virginia University are engaging underserved populations that are traditionally underrepresented in clinical studies.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cryptography, data security and privacy, medical informatics, and mobile and networked systems ─ among many other areas.

Tufts HNRCA will lead a new study to develop algorithms to predict how individuals respond to different food and dietary patterns. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers are hopeful the initiative will lead to more personalized nutrition guidance.

National Institutes of Health establishes Microbiome and Metagenomics Center at UC San Diego, part of new effort to predict individual responses to food and inform personalized nutrition recommendations.