Category results for: Informatics

How a small NIH pilot at VCU helped launch a precision medicine company

A seed grant through the Wright Center offered crucial support for TACIT — an AI tool for reading human tissue cell by cell — and catalyzed a spinout that has since expanded to build virtual tissues for precision medicine. The human body is not flat. It is a crowded, three-dimensional world, built from trillions of […]

VCU and Central Virginia VA receive $1.2 million NIH grant to train scholars in big data medicine

The five-year training award, a complementary grant to VCU’s $27.5 million Clinical and Translational Science Award, will support postdoctoral fellows who will work with federal healthcare datasets covering millions of veterans, service members and civilians. Virginia Commonwealth University and the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System have received a five-year T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein […]