Medicine Health and Society
Newly established Center for Applied AI in Protein Dynamics launching with the DSI a bootcamp program for graduate students
Apr. 18, 2023—Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences recently established the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Protein Dynamics, led by Hassane Mchaourab, to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and macromolecular mechanisms to understand protein structures and their functions in the human body. The center’s research aims to drive breakthroughs that could broadly...
Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Faculty member to lead $2.7 Million AI Initiative for Digital Kidney Histopathology
Apr. 14, 2023—Dr. Yuankai Huo, one our teaching faculty at the Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute, is spearheading a research initiative with clinical collaborators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to develop a quantitative and reproducible 3D analytics tool for large-scale digital analysis of kidney tissues and biopsies. The project, entitled “AI-empowered 3D Computer Vision and Image-Omics Integration...
DSI hosts AI Revolutions Symposium
Mar. 29, 2023—The Data Science Institute would like to thank all of the attendees and speakers that made our AI Revolutions Symposium this week a great event for the Vanderbilt community. The two-day event showcased the latest developments and impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and academia. The DSI’s Chief Data Scientist, Jesse Spencer-Smith, opened the...
Dr. Benjamin Collins to give talk on “Navigating the AI Future of Health Care” in the TEDxVanderbiltUniversity on April 18
Mar. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt University’s Employee Learning and Engagement Team will host the the seventh annual TEDxVanderbiltUniversity on April 18 and feature a talk on how artificial intelligence could reshape the future of healthcare. Dr. Benjamin Collins, a physician researcher, bioethicist and informatician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will discuss “Navigating the AI Future of Health Care” at...
Discrimination and Distress: A Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition of Sexual Minority Mental Health Disparities (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Harrison Stuart to work in the laboratory of Dr. Gilbert Gonzales, PhD, MHA in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society during the summer of 2022. Harrison is a senior with majors in Economics and Medicine, Health, & Society. Sexual minority adults (including gay men, lesbian women, and bisexual individuals) are...
The Covid-19 Experience: an Analysis of Ideology and Information Spread Through Social Media (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Priya Bhatt to work in the laboratory of Jonathan Metzl in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society during the summer of 2022. Priya is a junior with a major in Medicine, Health, & Society. In this study, Priya conducted an analyses of social media and political messaging utilizing novel data...
Measuring Naturalistic Proximity as a Window Into Caregiver–Child Interaction Patterns (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qi Shi to work in the laboratory of Kathryn Humphreys in the Department Psychology and Human Development during the summer of 2022. Qi is a junior with majors in Medicine, Health, & Society and Psychology. The TotTag, a device developed by the VU SEA Lab with a team of collaborators, is...
Characterization of a toxic secondary metabolite cluster in Penicillium fungi (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Charu Balamurugan to work in the laboratory of Dr. Antonis Rokas in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics during the summer of 2022. Charu is a sophomore with majors in Biological Sciences and Medicine, Health, & Society. This summer, Charu studied the characterization of a toxic secondary metabolite cluster...
DSI – SRP Poster Winner Announcement – Joseph Sexton
Oct. 27, 2021—Outstanding DSI – SRP Presentation Award 2021 Joseph Sexton, a junior with majors in Psychology and Medicine, Health, and Society and minors in Quantitative Methods, Mathematics, and Scientific Computing, presented his poster at the Undergraduate Research Fair and was selected as the winner of the Outstanding DSI – SRP Presentation Award (7 other DSI-SRP students...
Escaping Despair: Understanding the Decline in US Life Expectancy
Aug. 25, 2021—The rise in midlife mortality in the United States has been attributed to causes of death including suicide, poisoning/overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease. These cluster of causes, regarded as the deaths of despair, are postulated to reflect an underlying feeling of hopelessness and resulting self-destructive behaviors. However, there is limited research testing whether individual feelings...