{"id":277876,"date":"2026-06-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/uh-researchers-awarded-12m-grant-to-advance-ai-data-science-in-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:30:37","slug":"uh-researchers-awarded-12m-grant-to-advance-ai-data-science-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/uh-researchers-awarded-12m-grant-to-advance-ai-data-science-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"UH researchers awarded $12M grant to advance AI, data science in medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

UH researchers awarded $12M grant to advance AI, data science in medicine<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/21\/12-million-establishes-pac-aid\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-21 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.hawaii.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The John A. Burns School of Medicine and the UH Cancer Center.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Cancer Center and UH M\u0101noa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) were awarded more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Pacific Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Medicine (PAC-AID)\u2014a new research center dedicated to accelerating biomedical discoveries through artificial intelligence and data science to benefit people in Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> and the Pacific region, and worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Shepherd<\/p>\n

Funded through the NIH\u2018s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program, the five-year award will provide approximately $12 million through February 2031. The award was administered by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, with a federal award date of June 4, 2026.<\/p>\n

The center will be led by Principal Investigators John Shepherd and Youping Deng. Shepherd is chief scientific officer at the UH Cancer Center, and B.H. and Alice C. Beams Endowed Professor in Cancer Research at JABSOM. Deng is co-director, Genomics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, at the UH Cancer Center; and professor and director, Bioinformatics Core Facility, at JABSOM.<\/p>\n

PAC-AID will serve as a central hub integrating AI into biomedical research to improve health outcomes in Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>. Over five years, the project will renovate the UH Cancer Center Data Center to establish a new Medical AI Core (MedAI Core), providing advanced, high-performance computing resources and AI expertise. Physically located within both the UH Cancer Center and JABSOM on the shared Kaka\u02bbako<\/span> campus, PAC-AID will directly fund four major inaugural research projects and establish a Pilot Projects Program to support more than eight new, locally relevant pilot studies.<\/p>\n

\"YoupingYouping Deng<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the heart of our mission as a flagship research university is the drive to translate innovation into meaningful impact,\u201d said Vassilis…<\/p>\n

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