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News 5 Cleveland highlighted the work of Satish Viswanath, CCIR member and associate professor, BME at CWRU about a new NIH and NCI grant to continue research in AI to treat rectal cancer. "It's been a long time coming to get to this stage where, we can validate it on a larger scale," Viswanath said.

With a new five-year, $2.78 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals (UH) will use artificial intelligence (AI) to better treat rectal cancer patients. The project, led by CCIR member Satish Viswanath, PhD…

WKYC Cleveland Channel 3 highlighted the work of Dr. Agata Exner and the Exner Lab on ultrasound-sensitive nanobubbles. This more targeted treatment could “spare the normal tissue and spare the systemic side effects that are associated with chemotherapy, with radiation therapy and with surgery," Exner said.

In a Nature article, Shuo Li, PhD, discusses how virtual contrast agents powered by AI could highlight the same hidden features as contrast dyes.

The establishment of the new Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology (AID2B) at CWRU School of Medicine, spearheaded by Satish E. Viswanath, PhD and Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil, will leverage AI to help understand the mysteries of disease and improve people’s health.

The 2024 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition grand prize, first place in the Venture Track, went to Lighthanded Enterprises, co-founded by Dr. Brecken Blackburn, postdoctoral researcher in BME and CCIR Trainee Council education chair. 

CCIR faculty members Dr. Agata Exner and Dr. Shuo Li, shared their teams' research and hopes for these efforts as part of a CWRU Daily article for World Laboratory Day.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named seven CWRU researchers to its 2024 class of senior members, recognizing their “remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society.” Four are CCIR members: Jim Basilion, Agata Exner, Anirban Sen Gupta, and David Wilson.

Guided by a bold, strategic plan and building upon the rich history of pioneering translational imaging research, Dr. Exner's vision for the next phase of the center is to expand partnerships and catalyze biomedical imaging innovation. 

Particular congratulations to Henry Ruhl, first year undergraduate student, for having two abstracts accepted as orals! Henry is mentored by Dr. Agata Exner and MD/PhD student Felipe Berg, and CCIR faculty collaborators include Jim Basilion, Leo Kayat, and Salim Abboud.