$4.5 million for three FRQS Twin Chairs in Synthetic Intelligence and Wellbeing co-led by McGill researchers
Marcia Clark 
The quick advancement and deployment of artificial intelligence calls for we hook up our very best and brightest minds, and work to coach the up coming era of analysis leaders. In June, Le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) introduced it was investing $4.5 million for three Dual Chairs in Artificial Intelligence and Well being/Electronic Health and Existence Sciences. All three Chairs have been awarded to teams co-directed by McGill scientists.
The plan delivers collectively scientists with complementary know-how in AI, data sciences, and everyday living sciences to tackle problems and problems impacting the overall health of Canadians and the efficiency and success of the health care system. With the expense from this and a past contact in 2021, the system will aid simultaneous analysis education for far more than 60 pupils and postdoctoral fellows in the fields of AI and life sciences.
Each and every chair will obtain $1.5 million, dispersed in excess of three many years. The Dual AI Chairs are supported in aspect by the ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie. As of July 1, the courses are actively recruiting trainees.
Expansive experience and collaborative spirit
“With this major support from Le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé an rising technology of researchers will establish the skills and abilities they want to style the wellness solutions of the upcoming, to make medication safer, and to progress procedure for some of the most devasting ailments and diseases,” mentioned Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Analysis and Innovation. “The truth that McGill scientists are co-directing all a few FRQS Dual AI Chairs is genuinely spectacular, and a testomony to the expansive know-how and collaborative spirit of our AI, details sciences, and existence sciences investigate communities,” she extra.
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Director of the Centre for Analysis in Neuroscience (RI-MUHC), Keith Murai, and McGill Professor of Pc Science, Kaleem Siddiqi, will co-direct the Twin AI Chair, Cracking the nanoscopic structural code of the brain: Artificial intelligence and laptop or computer eyesight methods for brain well being. This system seems to be to progress knowing of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders.
McGill Affiliate Professor of Clinical Physics, John Kildea and Affiliate Professor in the Division of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Amal Zouaq, will co-immediate the Twin AI Chair, Sensible facts for sensible most cancers care – a investigate application that combines abilities in normal language processing, semantic internet systems, and affected individual-centered information to generate information bases in oncology. With the ambitions of cutting down hazard and making most cancers therapy safer and additional helpful, Kildea and Zouaq are collaborating to construct an AI solution that will merge, consolidate, and exploit unstructured well being info.
Mathieu Blanchette, Affiliate Professor in McGill’s Faculty of Pc Science, will co-direct the Dual AI Chair, Développement d’approches en intelligence artificielle pour élucider les codes de régulation des ARN et exploiter leur potentiel thérapeutique, with Éric Lécuyer of the Montréal Clinical Study Institute (IRCM). This software aims to tap into the prospective of AI to aid discoveries in RNA biology and therapeutics.
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