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Mount Sinai launches Center for Genomic AI and Microbiome Medicine to advance precision medicine

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Business Announcement

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the Center for Genomic AI and Microbiome Medicine, a research center that will bring together human genetics and microbiome research and use artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate how human genetic variation and the gut microbiome jointly shape disease progression and treatment response.

2027 Hertz Fellowship application now open

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hertz Foundation today opened applications for the 2027 Hertz Fellowship, the nation’s most competitive doctoral fellowship in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics. The Hertz Fellowship application closes on October 30, 2026. Fellowship finalists will be named in February 2027, and fellowship awards will be officially announced in May 2027.

Funder: Hertz Foundation

Rice project aims to reinvent cameras with generative AI

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice University has received a National Science Foundation award to develop artificial intelligence-powered cameras that could dramatically reduce the data, energy and cost needed to operate large-scale camera networks.

University of Birmingham launches new spin-out Dexter AI Ltd

University of Birmingham
Business Announcement

The University of Birmingham has launched Dexter AI Ltd to commercialise game-changing web-based application that extracts analysable datasets from electronic health records across primary and secondary care, claims data, private prescriber records, and other sources.

Scripps Research associate professor Keren Lasker receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to develop “toxin traps”

Scripps Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

Associate Professor Keren Lasker, the Ian Wilson Endowed Chair at Scripps Research, has been selected to receive a 2026 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to develop a new approach to capture and destroy toxins before they cause widespread damage. The award provides $642,000 over the first two years of the project, with potential for an additional $500,000 in year three, for over $1 million in total support.

Mizzou researcher leading the way in search of first-ever treatment for common heart valve disease

University of Missouri-Columbia
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Missouri researchers are advancing a promising new approach to treating a serious heart condition that affects millions of older adults worldwide.

HKUST charts a roadmap for agentic 7G AI-powered wireless networks

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) proposed a new Reasoning-Empowered Task-Oriented Communication (TOC) framework that enables AI agents to determine what information to share, when communication is necessary, and why a communicate should occur. The research could pave the way for collective intelligence in future 7G wireless networks.

Journal: npj Wireless Technology

CEC researchers working to enable debugging for AI workloads on graphics processing units & accelerators

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Keren Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC); Xiaokuan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, CEC; Binqian Yin, Professor, Computer Science, CEC, and Songqing Chen, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Computer Science, CEC, received funding for the project: “POSE: Phase I: Tile-Debugger: Enabling Accessible, Flexible, and Insightful Debugging for AI Workloads on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Accelerators.”

Pan & Arafin modernizing IoT/Edge cybersecurity research & curricula

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Jianli Pan, Associate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), and Md Arafin, Assistant Professor, Cyber Security Engineering, CEC, received funding for a project aimed at modernizing Internet of Things (IoT)/Edge cybersecurity research and curricula.