Christian Richey

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded more than $36 million to three institutions to conduct research and develop vaccines that can provide broad immunity to coronaviruses such as COVID-19.

Moving forward, the two sides set up 10 working groups to hammer out concrete plans on issues ranging from technology standards to climate-tech, data governance, and technology platforms.

The Civic Innovation Challenge seeds community-based solutions to the issues of mobility—specifically traveling between affordable housing and jobs—and climate resilience to better prepare communities for natural disasters.

The joint services sponsored a challenge competition that began in April with a call for white papers from small-business and non-traditional international industry.

The project comes in response to congressional direction for DOE to expand its collaborative research efforts with NIH in the areas of data and computation.

Called Paige Prostate, the AI flags potentially cancerous areas in prostate biopsy images for further review by pathologists if they aren’t identified in an initial review.

Started by the MITRE Corporation, Synthea uses publicly available health statistics to create in-depth models that cover artificial patients’ lifespans—but free of privacy, security, intellectual property, or other legal restrictions.