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Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Molecular Biology

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Publications429
Citations6,784

Grants

20 total · 7 active

NIH #U01AG088076

Standardizing and Harmonizing Behavioral and Social Science Research Factors in Alzheimer's Disease through Ontology-Based Approaches

Active
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2024-09-01 → 2029-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE

NIH #R24ES036131

Semantics Standards and Tools for Spatial and Contextual Exposome Data

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2025-07-15 → 2029-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS

NIH #U01AT012871

COMBINI: connecting COmplementary Medicine evidence and BIological kNowledge to support Integrative Health

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2024-09-17 → 2029-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

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All Grants

20 total · 7 active

NIH #U01AG088076

Standardizing and Harmonizing Behavioral and Social Science Research Factors in Alzheimer's Disease through Ontology-Based Approaches

Active
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2024-09-01 → 2029-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE

NIH #R24ES036131

Semantics Standards and Tools for Spatial and Contextual Exposome Data

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2025-07-15 → 2029-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS

NIH #U01AT012871

COMBINI: connecting COmplementary Medicine evidence and BIological kNowledge to support Integrative Health

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2024-09-17 → 2029-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

NIH #U24AG088019

ACCELERATE-BASSO: Coordinating Center for Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology

Active
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2024-09-20 → 2029-05-31
PIs
3

Awarded at INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS

NIH #U24MH136069

Coordinating Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Mental Health Research

Active
Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2024-07-15 → 2029-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NIH #U24AI171008

VIOLIN 2.0: Vaccine Information and Ontology LInked kNowledgebase

Active
Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2022-08-19 → 2027-05-31
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR

NIH #R01AG072799

Facilitate Observational Studies of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Using Ontology and Natural Language Processing

Active
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2021-05-01 → 2027-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NIH #R01AG083039

An end-to-end informatics framework to study Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC)'s impact on Alzheimer's disease using harmonized electronic health records

Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2023-09-01 → 2026-05-31
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #RF1AG072799

Facilitate Observational Studies of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Using Ontology and Natural Language Processing

Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2021-05-01 → 2025-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NIH #R01AG066749

Finding Combinatorial Drug Repositioning Therapy For Alzheimer'S Disease And Related Dementias

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2020-04-01 → 2025-03-31
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01AG084236

ACTS (AD Clinical Trial Simulation): Developing Advanced Informatics Approaches for an Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trial Simulation System

Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2023-09-01 → 2024-01-15
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #U24CA194215

Advancing Cancer Pharmacoepidemiology Research Through EHRs and Informatics

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2016-09-01 → 2023-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01CA224432

The MC1R protein palmitoylation in melanoma development

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2018-09-19 → 2023-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS

NIH #R56AG074604

CICADA: clinical informatics and computational approaches for drug-repositioning of AD/ADRD

Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2021-09-30 → 2023-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

NIH #R56AI150272

Using big data and deep learning on predicting HIV transmission risk in MSM population

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01AI130460

Dynamic learning for post-vaccine event prediction using temporal information in VAERS

Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2017-02-01 → 2022-01-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01CA193913

Molecular connections among UV exposure, red hair, nevi and melanoma

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2015-12-01 → 2020-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS

NIH #R01LM011829

Patient Medical History Representation, Extraction, and Inference from EHR Data

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2014-09-01 → 2019-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #U01HG009454

Metadata applications on informed content to facilitate biorepository data regulation and sharing

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2016-09-28 → 2019-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01CA196896

Why red-haired individuals are so prone to developing melanoma

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2015-07-15 → 2018-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Accelerating AI innovation in healthcare: real-world clinical research applications on the Mayo Clinic Platform (npj Health Systems)2026-02-16
  2. New preprint: Diffusion-Generated Synthetic Data as a Privacy-Preserving Substrate for Multi-Site Collaborative Model Development: A Non-Inferiority Study in Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis2026-01-01
  3. New NIH award: Semantics Standards and Tools for Spatial and Contextual Exposome Data2025-07-15

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