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NSF Awards Boston University Nearly $20 Million to Advance National Cloud Lab Network
Adapted from a story by Andrew Thurston for The Brink Boston University has been awarded nearly $20 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to help establish the National Cloud Lab Network, a nationwide system of AI-enabled, programmable laboratories that will transform how science and engineering research is conducted. Through the NSF Test Bed: […]
Boston University-led Opinion Piece Highlights the Need for Public Health Leadership to Build Trustworthy AI in Health
To Realize AI’s Promise for Health, Public Health Must Help Shape Its Future By Brendan Galvin From disease surveillance to clinical care, artificial intelligence is transforming health. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in decisions affecting population health, a new editorial argues that realizing AI’s full potential requires public health leadership alongside technical innovation. Dr. […]
FRP Outcomes: Health Equity in the Wake of Continued Climate Change: Leveraging Big Data to Inform Action
Boston University’s Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health Focused Research Program (FRP) united researchers across disciplines to address one of society’s most pressing challenges: protecting health in a warming climate. Led by Professors Gregory Wellenius (School of Public Health) and Lucy Hutyra (Earth & Environment), and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Institute for […]
BU Researchers Use “Digital Twins” to Predict Language Recovery After Stroke
By Brendan Galvin For people recovering from a stroke, relearning how to communicate can be one of the biggest rehabilitation challenges. For bilingual patients, the challenge is even greater. Which language should their speech therapy focus on? A recent study published in npj Digital Medicine explores how artificial intelligence-powered “digital twins” can help answer that […]
Redefining Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease through Next-generation Digital Cognitive Biomarkers FRP
AI-enhanced Biophysical Genome-scale Modeling of Cancer
Multi-Scale Neuro-AI for Striatal Learning: Machine Learning, Voltage Imaging, and Safe Perturbation Design
AI for Characterizing and Designing Biomolecular Interactions
Breaking Barriers: DataHub Launches to Advance AI-Driven and Convergent Health Research
The Center for Health Data Science debuts initiative to help cross-disciplinary researchers more easily find, connect, and analyze complex health datasets By Maureen Stanton While the health sector is generating unprecedented volumes of digital data, fragmented systems, regulatory complexity, and technical barriers often make it difficult for researchers to efficiently discover, access, and connect data […]
MedAI Hackathon: Tackling Real Biomedical Problems With Artificial Intelligence
By Maria Yaitanes Today’s most pressing challenges require an integrated approach across disciplines — a concept Hariri Institute FY26 Focused Research Program (FRP) award recipients Vijaya B. Kolachalama and Jennifer Beane-Ebel embraced in their recent event, the MedAI Hackathon. Held on April 10 and 11 at the Duan Family Center for Computing and Data Sciences, […]