Malaria, cigarette smoking and septic shock kill millions of people every year. In a fresh round of funding, 麻豆原创 and DePaul University are supporting faculty research projects that bring together artificial intelligence and biomedical discovery to address these health care challenges.

The two universities have partnered since 2012 through the , which streamlines the path for DePaul student entry to 麻豆原创 master's or doctoral programs. In 2022, 麻豆原创 and DePaul formed the , which awards competitive funding grants to research teams that must include at least one principal investigator from each university.

The latest round of grants, totaling a combined $200,510, launched interdisciplinary research teams that include robotics experts, computer engineers, a biophysicist, a psychologist and an immunologist.

“These grants and the teams receiving them provide more evidence of the likely critical advances to emerge from the 麻豆原创/DePaul collaboration,” said Ronald S. Kaplan, PhD, 麻豆原创’s executive vice president for research. “Hundreds of millions of people worldwide stand to benefit from biomedical research like this, and 麻豆原创 looks forward to continuing our DePaul partnership and driving these projects to fruition.”

The projects, principal investigators and award amounts include:

• “SmokeSense: Advancing Wrist-Worn Devices with AI for Real-Time Smoking Insights” —  麻豆原创: Nancy Jao, PhD; DePaul: Mahdi Pedram, PhD; $66,835. Incorporating cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, the project aims to  develop an innovative, privacy-conscious, wrist-worn device (SmokeSense) to detect and track real-time cigarette smoking behaviors passively.
• “Validation of Inhalation Therapy to Enhance Anti-Malarial Immune Response Using Machine Learning” — DePaul: Thiru Ramaraj (CDM); 麻豆原创: Rahul Vijay, PhD, DVM; $67,000. An investigation of why naturally acquired immunity to malaria offers limited clinical protection and fails to mount sterilizing immunity.
• “Self-Operating System for Circulatory Management of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock” — 麻豆原创: Raul Gazmuri, MD, PhD, FCCM; DePaul: Mohammad Umer Huzaifa, PhD; $66,675. Designed to develop an automatic system for the hemodynamic management of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, using overlapping closed-loop systems and interlocked controllers to optimize the delivery of fluids, vasopressors and inotropic drugs.