Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Grant
Radiology Department Receives Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) Grant
Congratulations to Clifford Lindsay, PhD, Mohammed Salman Shazeeb, PhD, and Gopal Vijayaraghavan, MD, on receiving a highly competitive Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) Bits to Bytes grant. The award will support a collaborative research project, Harnessing Breast Cancer Screening for Predicting Cardiovascular Disease, which uses artificial intelligence and data science to study the link between breast arterial calcifications identified on routine mammograms and cardiovascular disease risk. Read the full announcement.
“We are so grateful for this award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, which will allow us to take a meaningful step toward addressing a leading cause of death among women and, through the creation of a large and comprehensive dataset, act as a catalyst for the field of predictive AI,” said Clifford Lindsay, PhD, Associate Director, Image Processing & Analysis Core (iPAC) at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
David D. McManus, MD, Chancellor UMass Chan Medical School posted:
This summer, a team from the Department of Radiology at UMass Chan was one of 23 groups to receive a MLSC award supporting projects advancing infrastructure and equipment, data science, drug delivery and translational research.
Led by Clifford Lindsay, PhD; Mohammed Salman Shazeeb, PhD; and Gopal Vijayaraghavan, MD, MPH, the project, “Harnessing Breast Cancer Screening for Predicting Cardiovascular Disease,” is examining the association between breast arterial calcifications and cardiovascular disease
The collaborative project is one of four to be funded through the MLSC Bits to Bytes track of the Accelerating Research through Collaboration Awards. The UMass Chan team is working in partnership with DeepHealth, a radiology AI-powered health informatics portfolio and subsidiary of RadNet, Inc.
Congratulations to Drs. Lindsay, Shazeeb and Vijayaraghavan on this great award and important research!