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Dr. Rachita Sumbria Awarded NIH R21 Grant to Investigate the Impact of Obesity on Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
October 7, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy School
Associate Professor Dr. Rachita Sumbria has been awarded a new R21 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The grant, “The impact of obesity-induced hepatic amyloid beta dysregulation on Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” focuses on understanding obesity’s effect on the liver’s regulation of amyloid beta, a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and its impact
$250,000 Awarded to Dr. Sherry Wang for AI/ML Patient Safety Research
October 1, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Research
Dr. Sherry Wang has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the NIH’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. Her proposal, “Ethics and Equity in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) application: Bias Assessment in Machine Learning (ML) models for opioid Prescribing”, will investigate potential biases in AI and ML systems used