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  <Title>UMBC faculty receive NSF award for digitial twins to study neurodegenerative diseases</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/10/nsf_dt.webp" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><span><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>UMBC Professors <a href="http://ansuchatterjee.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ansu Chatterjee,</a> <a href="https://karuna.informationsystems.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Karuna Joshi,</a> and <a href="https://userpages.umbc.edu/~abiswas/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Animikh Biswas</a> received an NSF award to study the use of digital twins to diagnose, treat, and increase the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Digital twin </a>models can leverage the exponential growth of biomedical data and AI and data science techniques and provide new insights into these diseases and their treatment and prevention. The three-year award, Aspects of Digital Twin Studies for Neuroimages, will provide almost $900k in funding. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Read more about this award on <a rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSF </a>and <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/digital-twinning-nsf-study/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC News</a>.</span></div></span><div><div><span></span></div></div> <hr><a href="https://ai.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>UMBC Center for AI</strong></a></div>
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  <Summary>UMBC Professors Ansu Chatterjee, Karuna Joshi, and Animikh Biswas received an NSF award to study the use of digital twins to diagnose, treat, and increase the understanding of neurodegenerative...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:03:22 -0400</PostedAt>
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