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The WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology is establishing the Center for Computational and AI-enabled Imaging Sciences in partnership with WashU’s McKelvey School of Engineering. The new center is dedicated to developing AI-based imaging tools to improve the diagnosis and precision treatment of numerous medical conditions.

New center to develop AI-based imaging tools to improve diagnosis, care

WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology leads effort on image-based precision medicine.

11.03.2025

Sorrells receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award

The five-year award will fund her research into inflammatory bowel disease.

10.10.2025

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, ShiNung Ching and Ben Palanca, MD, PhD, seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for treatment-resistant depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patients’ age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits. (Credit: iStock photo)

Personalized brain modeling of anesthetic effects to predict antidepressant response

ShiNung Ching, Ben Julian Palanca, MD, PhD, look at brain dynamics, neural circuits as clues to alternative approaches.

09.22.2025

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Analog and RF integrated circuits for emerging sensing and communication applications, enabling new technologies for healthcare and beyond

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