ReCARDO PI/MPIs Cui, Liu, Zhang awarded more than $5 million from NIH and NSF data science program

“These awards support the interdisciplinary work at the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence, engineering, and health,” said LaTanya J. Love, MD, dean of McGovern Medical School and its H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences. “Each of these projects will help turn scattered data into knowledge that empowers health care professionals, accelerates scientific breakthroughs, and ultimately improves patient outcomes.”

Zhang is also co-director of the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies, professor of neurology at McGovern Medical School, and the medical school’s Distinguished Chair in Digital Innovation. Together with Liu and Cui, Zhang was recently awarded a $27.2 million grant by the National Institute on Aging to lead a national initiative using real-world data to unlock discoveries about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

“These three additional awards in data science and artificial intelligence demonstrate UTHealth Houston as a national powerhouse in leading data-driven biomedical discovery,” Zhang said.