Professor Denise Montell wins second NIH Pioneer Award, receiving $5.5 million for immune therapy research

The award is part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. Montell will use the funds to test a new treatment her group is developing for cancer and other diseases, such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Researchers’ reconstruction of fruit fly’s anterior visual pathway will lead to insights into animal navigation

With the help of artificial intelligence and manual proofreading, systems biologist Sung Soo Kim and collaborators mapped the relationships between more than 3,000 neurons with unprecedented detail.

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Talk on AI and the creative process kicks off Interdisciplinary Humanities Center yearlong public event series

English professor Sowon Park inaugurates the IHC series, “Key Passages,” with her lecture exploring AI’s impact on the production of fiction and on creativity itself.

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