Medical Research

St. Louis Startup Secures $6M to Advance Medical Research

September 1, 2022 - CuriMeta, a St. Louis-based startup, raised $6 million in series seed round funding to close medical research gaps and accelerate health-related interventions. Washington University and BJC HealthCare, which also led the series seed Funding round, have formed a partnership with CuriMeta, the press release stated. As part of their collaboration,...


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Microsoft Azure Joins NIH STRIDES to Advance Cloud-Based Research

by Hannah Nelson

Microsoft Azure is the newest cloud service provider to join the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and...

Mount Sinai’s Medical School Adds PhD Program for AI in Healthcare

by Samantha McGrail

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently announced that it will offer a new PhD concentration that could boost the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The...

Basic Scientific Research is Vital for Biomedical Innovation

by Samantha McGrail

Basic scientific research is critical for biomedical innovation, but the American public must provide researchers and scientists with the appropriate resources for innovation or the next generation...

Jackson Lab Works with Microsoft on AI-Based Precision Medicine

by Fred Donovan

Maine-based Jackson Lab is working with Microsoft to use artificial intelligence for precision medicine to improve cancer treatments. Researchers at the lab are leveraging AI to accelerate...

NSF Grants $225K to Integrate Graphene with Nexus Blockchain Protocol

by Fred Donovan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $225,000 grant to integrate new Graphene technology with SimplyVital Health’s Nexus blockchain protocol. Graphene is a block propagation...

NIMH Awards $4.6M to UC San Diego for NEMAR IT Infrastructure, Tools

by Fred Donovan

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded $4.6 million to the University of California San Diego to build IT infrastructure and tools to add human neuroelectromagnetic brain imaging to...

Columbia Researchers Develop Miniaturized Medical Imaging

by Fred Donovan

Columbia University researchers have developed miniaturized medical imaging using a microchip to map the back of the eye to diagnose disease. The microchip uses interference technology to capture high...

FDA Funds Health IT Infrastructure for Rare Disease Research

by Fred Donovan

The FDA is providing funding to the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and the Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) for a centralized and standardized health IT infrastructure to support rare disease...

PHDA Employs AWS Cloud Computing to Enable Healthcare AI Research

by Fred Donovan

The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) is teaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud computing services to improve patient care by enabling healthcare AI research.   The PHDA...

Berkeley Gets $47M NIH Grant for Brain Imaging in Alzheimer’s Trial

by Fred Donovan

University of California, Berkeley, has received a five-year, $47 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use brain imaging in the Alzheimer's Association's...

OSF Healthcare, UoI Contribute $50M for Healthcare IoT Research

by Fred Donovan

OSF Healthcare and the University of Illinois (UoI) at Urbana-Champaign are kicking in $50 million to their Jump ARCHES partnership to fund healthcare IoT applied research. The money will go toward...

Siemens to Inject $133M into UM’s Precision Medicine Institute

by Fred Donovan

Siemens Healthineers is ponying up $133 million in medical imaging equipment and supporting health IT infrastructure to the University of Missouri (UM) System’s new NextGen Precision Health...

White House Wants Transparency in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Fred Donovan

The White House is calling for more transparency and “explainability” in healthcare artificial intelligence. Currently many algorithms are opaque to users, which creates problems for...

Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub Adds 4 Major Industry Partners

by Fred Donovan

The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, set up last year to improve patient care and provider experience by using cutting-edge health technology, has added four major healthcare industry partners to its...

Austin Group, Dell Medical School Team on Healthcare Blockchain

by Fred Donovan

The Austin Blockchain Collective is teaming with Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin to develop healthcare blockchain applications for better patient outcomes. The two...

UCLA Deploys Cloud Computing for Medical Research, Precision Medicine

by Fred Donovan

UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing to better harness healthcare data for medical research and enable precision medicine. The academic medical center is using Microsoft Azure cloud services to...

NSF Grants $1M to Develop Secure Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant to University of Massachusetts and Elizabethtown College researchers to develop a secure health IT infrastructure...