The artificial intelligence research community is invited to attend the virtual launch of Matrix: The UTSA AI Consortium for Human Well-Being today at 10 a.m. Central time. Comprised of diverse local, national and international AI and machine learning researchers, the consortium is dedicated to conducting transformative research in the design, use and deployment of AI to enhance human life. Leading this multiorganizational consortium is Dhireesha Kudithipudi ’06, the Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer ...
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Researchers from UTSA and Southwest Research Institute are working to develop nonintrusive diagnostics for hypersonic flight testing. The project, led by Christopher Combs in the College of Engineering and Nicholas J. Mueschke of SwRI’s Mechanical Engineering Division, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (CONNECT) program. “The goal is to ultimately make full aerodynamic measurements in a truly representative hypersonic environment,” Mueschke said. “These measurements will directly contribute to the design of next-generation hypersonic vehicles.” Hypersonic speed ...
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UTSA and Southwest Research Institute are working to synthesize novel highly potent derivatives of the antimalarial drug artemisinin with the goal of creating a powerful, cost-effective malaria treatment. Led by Doug Frantz of the Department of Chemistry in UTSA’s College of Sciences and Shawn Blumberg of SwRI’s Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division, the work is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (CONNECT) program. In 2018 Blumberg and Frantz collaborated on a project funded by the Bill & ...
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JULY 9, 2020 — Fueling transformative research through collaboration, the San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics has announced the funding of three more collaborative COVID-19 research efforts in San Antonio. SAPPT has awarded more than $600,000 to fund these projects, following the funding of a SARS CoV-2 vaccine project announced in April of this year. Launched in 2019 to accelerate the process of getting therapies and pharmaceuticals from basic research to people in need, the SAPPT was created by four leading ...
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BioMedSA, the nonprofit corporation founded in 2005 to promote and grow San Antonio’s leading industry—health care and bioscience—will present its 2020 BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience to Rena Bizios, the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in UTSA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. Bizios is a globally recognized educator and researcher who has made pioneering contributions to biomedical engineering curricula as well as groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of cell-material interactions at the tissue/implant interface with applications in implant biomaterials, tissue ...
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