Malaria, cigarette smoking and septic shock kill millions of people every year. In a fresh round of funding, Â鶹ӰÒô and DePaul University are supporting faculty research projects that bring together artificial intelligence and biomedical discovery to address these health care challenges.
The two universities have partnered since 2012 through the , which streamlines the path for DePaul student entry to Â鶹ӰÒô master's or doctoral programs. In 2022, Â鶹ӰÒô and DePaul formed the , which awards competitive funding grants to research teams that must include at least one principal investigator from each university.
The latest round of grants, totaling a combined $200,510, launched interdisciplinary research teams that include robotics experts, computer engineers, a biophysicist, a psychologist and an immunologist.
“These grants and the teams receiving them provide more evidence of the likely critical advances to emerge from the Â鶹ӰÒô/DePaul collaboration,” said Ronald S. Kaplan, PhD, Â鶹ӰÒô’s executive vice president for research. “Hundreds of millions of people worldwide stand to benefit from biomedical research like this, and Â鶹ӰÒô looks forward to continuing our DePaul partnership and driving these projects to fruition.”
The projects, principal investigators and award amounts include: