This award is for investigators at all stages of career development (early career, midlevel, and senior investigators) and is intended to support high impact projects that align with the mission of the ADORE (diabetes/obesity), K-RALD (lung disease) or the AIM (artificial intelligence in medicine) Alliance.
There will be three separate co-funded awards, one per alliance limited to $50,000 which must be spent over 12 months.
Information for each Alliance can be found at https://med.uky.edu/alliance.
2022 Awardees
Jin Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine
Qing Shao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
UK CCTS - Markey Cancer Center - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award
Precisely Predicting Bio-aware Conformation for Cancer Proteins with Deep Active Learning
David Dornbos III, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine
Jessica Lee, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine
UK CCTS - Sanders Brown Center on Aging - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award
Early Identification of Malignant Cerebral Edema in Acute Ischemic Stroke
Peter Hardy, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine
UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award
Development of an AI Algorithm to Segment Muscles in the Thigh from MR Images
Kirby Mayer, DPT, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences
Sanjay Dhar, MD, FACP, FCCP
Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine
UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award
AI-powered analysis of muscle ultrasonography to risk stratify ICU
Jie Zhang, PhD
Professor, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine
Gongbo "Tony" Liang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EKU
UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award
Unsupervised Deep Learning Denoising in CT Imaging of Obese Patients
2021 Awardees
Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine
Eric Blalock, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine
UK CCTS - ADORE Alliance Research Pilot Award
Fundamental differences in immune cell metabolism are modified by age
Preetha Shridas, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine
Christopher Waters, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine
UK CCTS - K-RALD Alliance Research Pilot Award
Serum Amyloid A resolves experimental acute lung injury in mice