AI Meets Medicine: Penn Secures ARPA-H Funding for AI in Breast Cancer Care and More

“Researchers at Penn Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) have received a $7-million, four-year award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems that support personalized medical treatment.

The project, which will be led by Rajeev Alur, Zisman Family Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Penn Engineering and Director of the AI-enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy (ASSET) Center, will focus on breast cancer, heart attacks and sepsis…

In addition to Alur and Long, the other co-PIs are: Rajat Deo, Associate Professor in Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Sameed Khatana, Assistant Professor in Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Mayur Naik, Professor in CIS; Ravi Parikh, Associate Professor in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine; Payal Shah, Assistant Professor in Medicine (Hematology-Oncology); Gary Weissman, Assistant Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; and Eric Wong, Assistant Professor in CIS.”

Read more at Penn Engineering.