Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund
Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of funding for 22 university-based projects to develop and use AI in the health sector.
The money is a small part of the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) previously announced £250 million Technology Missions Fund, awarded within the Science and Technology Framework, to support the goal.
Recipients include: University College London’s (UCL) Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (£500,000-plus); University of Sheffield - £463,000 to carry out an external validation of an approach that could lead to much wider, effective treatment of chronic nerve pain; University of Oxford - £640,000 to accelerate research into a foundation AI model for clinical risk prediction; Heriot-Watt University - £644,000 to develop a system that assists trainee surgeons to practice laparoscopy procedures; University of Surrey - £456,000 to work with radiologists to develop AI that improves the mammogram analysis process.
For details of other projects click here.
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