This award is for investigators at all stages of career development (early career, midlevel, and senior investigators) and is intended to support high impact projects that align with the mission of the ADORE (diabetes/obesity), K-RALD (lung disease) or the AIM (artificial intelligence in medicine) Alliance. 
 
There will be three separate co-funded awards, one per alliance limited to $50,000 which must be spent over 12 months.  
 
Information for each Alliance can be found at https://med.uky.edu/alliance.
2022 Awardees
- Jin Chen, PhD- Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine   - Qing Shao, PhD- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering - UK CCTS - Markey Cancer Center - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award - Precisely Predicting Bio-aware Conformation for Cancer Proteins with Deep Active Learning   
- David Dornbos III, MD- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine   - Jessica Lee, MD- Professor, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine - UK CCTS - Sanders Brown Center on Aging - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award - Early Identification of Malignant Cerebral Edema in Acute Ischemic Stroke   
- Peter Hardy, PhD- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine - UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award - Development of an AI Algorithm to Segment Muscles in the Thigh from MR Images   
- Kirby Mayer, DPT, PhD- Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences   - Sanjay Dhar, MD, FACP, FCCP- Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine - UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award - AI-powered analysis of muscle ultrasonography to risk stratify ICU   
- Jie Zhang, PhD- Professor, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine   - Gongbo "Tony" Liang, PhD- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EKU - UK CCTS - AI in Medicine Research Alliance Pilot Award - Unsupervised Deep Learning Denoising in CT Imaging of Obese Patients   
2021 Awardees
- Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD- Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine   - Eric Blalock, PhD- Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine - UK CCTS - ADORE Alliance Research Pilot Award - Fundamental differences in immune cell metabolism are modified by age   
- Preetha Shridas, PhD- Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine   - Christopher Waters, PhD- Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine - UK CCTS - K-RALD Alliance Research Pilot Award - Serum Amyloid A resolves experimental acute lung injury in mice   



