The Southeastern Health AI Consortium (SEHAI) is a partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Florida. It has helped launch $6.6 million in pilot awards designed to test how AI can move from a promising tool to a practical driver of better health outcomes across the Southeast.
McKnight Brain Institute: The project of Yonghui Wu, Ph.D., and Rui Yin, Ph.D., aims to develop innovative computational tools and analytical frameworks to better understand why some Alzheimer’s patients progress rapidly and others slowly, to improve future clinical trial design and interventions.
A UF College of Medicine research team launched a six-month pilot award study in February that applies AI to brain tumor research. The team will investigate MRI imaging to improve predictions of how the immune systems of brain tumor patients respond to therapies. The grant from…
At last year’s event, HOBI postdoctoral associate Rola Zeidan, Ph.D., won a community health award for the research poster “Iron levels in Postmenopausal Women.”
The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, or CTSI, announces the appointment of Yonghui Wu, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, as its new chief data science officer.
The University of Florida is participating in a large national program to create an efficient and mobile healthcare delivery system for rural areas, awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. As hundreds of hospitals in rural areas…
The first student from the Department of Heath Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics to win an International Student Achievement Award was honored on November 19 by the University of Florida International Center.
A new $1 million award to the University of Florida will enable advanced artificial intelligence research that could repurpose electronic health records and create content to improve healthcare services.
A new artificial intelligence computer program created by researchers at the University of Florida and NVIDIA can generate doctors’ notes so well that two physicians couldn’t tell the difference, according to an early study from both groups.
A University of Florida researcher hit a grand slam that secured funding and launched three projects on September 1, 2023 for a combined value of $13.3 million. Jiang Bian, Ph.D., is a UF professor in Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) within the College of Medicine. The National Institute on Aging funded the three collaborative project grants.
