Project Grant R16GM159146
- This federal Project Grant award of $378,714.00 was provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859). The award supports a 5-year research project at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop novel computational and statistical methods for large-scale disease pathway discovery using graph neural networks and hierarchical Bayesian inference. The overarching goal is to improve the...
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $700,611 Project Grant under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. The grant, titled "Practical Randomized Controlled Trial of Artificial Intelligence for Melanoma Diagnosis (PRACTA-MEL)," aims to determine the benefits and barriers to clinical adoption of AI systems for improving melanoma detection and reducing the number of unnecessary biopsies. The project...
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $349,910 Project Grant under CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training program to Perfusio Corp. for the development of a "Multi-Spectral AI/ML Powered Burn and Wound Evaluation Technology Using a Cost-Effective Handheld Device". The project aims to create a portable, affordable, and user-friendly device that can provide real-time, dynamic physiologic data to medical providers for accurate assessment...
- This $186,250 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), aims to address challenges in optimizing nanobody sequence design through multi-objective engineering. The project will develop a multi-objective model for simultaneous prediction and optimization of critical developability attributes of nanobody sequences, including affinity, stability, selectivity, and solubility. An...
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $275,756 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to Rewire Neuroscience LLC, a woman-owned small business in Oregon. The funding supports the development of PipSqueak Pro, an AI-powered computer vision platform that aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning techniques for automated biomedical image analysis. The platform seeks to reduce human bias, subjectivity,...
- The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has awarded a $693,156 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (DFCI) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for predicting prognosis and optimizing treatment selection for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC), a highly prevalent form of skin cancer. The project aims to train and validate AI...
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded a $389,653 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY), doing business as Rf-SUNY At The University At Albany. This 5-year project, starting on January 1, 2025, aims to develop a transdisciplinary research program centered around AI-supported biosensing and precision therapeutics using DNA nanotechnology and...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), under the Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.846), aims to understand the plasticity of melanocyte stem cells (MCSCs) and mature melanocytes in adult hair follicles. The $1,917,396 award to New York University School of Medicine will support live-imaging techniques to delineate the fate decision process of MCSCs, from partial differentiation...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) provides $273,987 to develop and enhance the "RtutorAI" platform. RtutorAI is an AI-powered virtual assistant that enables users to analyze large biomedical datasets through natural language interactions, without requiring coding expertise. The project aims to: (1) optimize prompt engineering and upgrade to GPT-4 for improved...
- This federal Project Grant award of $426,479 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), will support research toward developing statistical and computational tools to enable precision risk stratification, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions. The research will focus on integrating and synthesizing data from diverse sources such as biobanks, electronic health records, and clinical registries...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $175,470 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop a reliable large visual-language model that enables conversational dermatology AI to facilitate early melanoma diagnosis and general skin care. The project aims to: 1) build a new multimodal large language model specifically for dermatology to discern melanoma and other skin diseases and to automatically answer questions relevant to skin lesions; and 2) study uncertainties stemming from data bias and distribution shifts to enhance the reliability of language model-powered AI diagnosis in multimodal contexts and teledermatology environments. The award period is from August 12, 2025 to June 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $175.5k | 8/12/25 |