This $255,837 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of a blockchain-driven, distributed memory computational platform for industrial analytics by Blockalytics LLC. The platform will enable predictive analytics on geographically distributed industrial data without data movement or reliance on cloud-based solutions. Blockalytics will integrate blockchain smart contracts with distributed memory frameworks to design primitives similar to MapReduce for blockchain and develop...
This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the development of a blockchain ecosystem and artificial intelligence to optimize prior authorization processes in the pharmaceutical industry. Red Oak Strategic LLC will leverage distributed ledger technology to create an encrypted, decentralized patient data sharing network among prescribers, payers, and patients. Smart contracts will automate criteria fulfillment, facilitate machine learning-based...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Softhread Inc., a woman-owned technology company, a $984,905 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. This SBIR Phase II project expands upon previous Phase I work to develop a "zero-trust" blockchain-based solution for securing the confidential exchange of precision health data such as advanced directives and life-sustaining treatment plans. The technology combines blockchain,...
Softhread Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to develop a blockchain-enabled clinical registry program. Funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), the six-month project will support Softhread's work to foster innovation in engineering through the creation of a clinical registry platform leveraging blockchain technology. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve...
This $275,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Medimint, a minority-owned and woman-owned small business. The award funds the development of a blockchain-powered medical image sharing platform to address challenges with current data transfer practices in the healthcare industry. The key objectives are to design novel security protocols and smart contracts that enable...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $165,000, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to enhance eventual data consistency in large-scale, multidimensional scientific computing through the development of a lightweight in-memory distributed ledger system. The project, led by Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (dba Georgia Health Sciences), a non-profit research organization, will...
This $348,227 federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, focuses on improving the scalability and effectiveness of using large language models (LLMs) in healthcare applications. The key objectives are to develop an evaluation framework to address issues like factual and faithfulness hallucinations in LLM outputs, and to introduce innovative reinforcement learning methods to align LLM...
This $997,693 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop an interactive health assessment and monitoring platform to improve patient-provider communication and reduce healthcare costs. The project by Literaseed, Inc. integrates electronic health record (EHR) data with natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract valuable information from medical records, enabling...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,780 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to Skuchain, Inc. of Mountain View, California. The grant funds the development of a blockchain platform to facilitate faster and safer transactions for manufactured goods supply chains. Specifically, the company will address scalability, security and interoperability challenges through hierarchical public/private keys, granular access controls using...
This $240,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award supports the development of a new class of computational frameworks that combine large language models with neural operator learning techniques to address key challenges in modeling spatiotemporal phenomena in biomedical research. The research aims to transform biological and medical studies by adapting...