Collaborative Research Team Receives Grant to Use AI to Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes

Published by daniel, on October 06, 2020

Collaborative Research Team Receives Grant to Use AI to Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes

October 06, 2020

A team of researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, were recently awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance research for improving heart transplant outcomes for patients. The four-year grant will fund a project exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven analysis to determine the likelihood of cardiac patients accepting or rejecting a new heart. Department faculty members on the grant include Drs. Michael Feldman and Priti Lal.
Read the Penn Medicine news release