Ong receives Igniting interdisciplinary Innovation grant

Congratulations to Irene Ong, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Reproductive Sciences, who received an Igniting interdisciplinary Innovation (I3) award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research!  

Ong received the $250,000 grant for the project From AI Innovation to Clinical Impact: Closing the Gap for Reliable AI-based Disease Screening, in collaboration with Frederic Sala, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences; Maja Waldron, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics; Paula Voorheis, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy; and Daniel Cho, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery. 

Ong and collaborators will develop methods for integrating multimodal data, conformal prediction, and reliable and usable AI methods. An early project will focus on ovarian cancer, with a goal to be able to apply the AI model to more diseases. 

Incredible work, Dr. Ong!