Listen to this articleWith a $2 million grant, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) established the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Center for Advanced Cancer Diagnostics. Announced Wednesday, the grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“The groundbreaking work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, combining neuroscience with AI, is truly remarkable,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who secured the funding in 2022, said in a news release about the grant.
“I am proud to have played a pivotal role in securing a $2 million [National Institutes of Health] grant to help establish computational modeling to further AI-based diagnostic and predictive tools for advanced cancer diagnostics,” Suozzi said.
The grant comes at a time when the region continues to attract federal, state and local funding to support research in the life-sciences industry. Last week, for example, Manhasset-based Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research formed the Institute of Translational Research, the organization’s sixth research institute, with $5 million to endow a professorship; Feinstein, Northwell Health’s research arm, had received a $10 million investment fund award from New York State in 2022.
Meanwhile, the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Center for Advanced Cancer Diagnostics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is designed to leverage advances in AI to view cancer cells as they interact with healthy tissue. The lab’s supercomputer-powered AI is critical in the fight against cancer, experts say. This technology requires vast amounts of data storage, whose costs were offset by the Community Project Funding grant that Suozzi secured.
In Cold Spring Harbor this week, Suozzi joined Bruce Stillman, president and CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, to tour the lab’s new supercomputer storage infrastructure system.
“We are extremely grateful for the support of our federal delegation in championing our growth efforts,” Stillman said in the news release.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Tom Suozzi’s leadership has been critical in securing funding for the advancement of science at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This center represents the future of cancer research and will greatly assist in our battle to understand the second deadliest killer in the U.S.,” Stillman added.
“Community Project Funding grants, such as this one for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, are not only furthering advancements in AI diagnostics but simply saving lives. We must work together to continue supporting cutting-edge research such as what is happening right here at CSHL,” Suozzi said.