AI in Pediatrics
Technion and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Advance Leading Data-Driven Research and Education Program
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center continue to advance their data-driven research and education program.
Experts within each institution are training a core group of investigators skilled in biomedical informatics, who will provide a platform for local expertise and collaborative studies. The goal is to use large data sets to help clinicians, researchers and scientists improve precision medicine, discover treatments, and deliver the best possible healthcare.
The two institutions are working to elevate pediatric medicine on a global scale by leveraging Cincinnati Children’s expertise in patient care, basic research, and translational research with Technion’s excellence in computer science, engineering, and bioinformatics.
The collaboration, called the “Bridge to Next-Gen Medicine,” connects Tech.AI.BioMed, the medical arm of Technion’s Artificial Intelligence hub, Tech.AI, headed by Prof. Shai Shen-Orr from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, with various departments at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The program includes joint workshops, online lectures, faculty/student exchange visits, and research projects. In addition to training in biomedical informatics, the collaboration seeks to advance medicine by using various types of big data for research and developing new approaches to clinical care, including artificial intelligence.
Joint Webinar: Technion and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
On June 22, 2023, a joint webinar took place, bringing together researchers from both institutions to present capabilities in the field of AI in pediatrics, including recipients of the program’s joint research grants.
According to Prof. Marc Rothenberg, who leads the collaboration on behalf of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, “The joint program between the Technion and the Children’s Hospital focuses on the connection between computational biology and pediatrics. The two institutions are leaders in these fields, so the joint work is expected to pave the way for groundbreaking scientific discoveries.”
“The collaboration with the hospital in Cincinnati”, conclude Prof. Shen-Orr, Prof. Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus and Prof Itzhak Kehat, who lead this collaboration on behalf of the Technion, “constitutes another necessary step of the Technion Artificial Intelligence Hub to develop and grow a research activity in the field of developmental medicine focusing on pediatrics. This step continues previous steps taken just this year by Tech.AI.BioMed, such as launching the Zimin Institute for AI solutions in medicine, that promote the use of AI to improve healthcare.”