What we do
Increase the participation and engagement of the researchers and communities that are currently underrepresented in AI/ML modeling and applications through mutually beneficial partnerships
Identify priority research aims in health equity and AI/ML, as well as the training and infrastructure needed to support these
Who we are
Anil Shanker, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Senior VP for Research and Innovation
Meharry Medical College
Expertise: Cancer Immunology, Health Disparities, Alzheimer’s disease, Computational biology, Immunogenomics, Precision Medicine
Rajbir Singh, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Genomics and Precision Medicine Research
Expertise: Genomics, PGx and Cancer trials, Intelligent design of clinical trials for health disparity, community-based multi-center research studies
Qingguo Wang, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Director of Genomics Data Core, School of Applied Computational Sciences, Meharry Medical College
Expertise: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, software development, Cancer Genomics
What do we represent
Meharry Southeast Hub Region & Demographics
Meharry Southeast Hub includes 11 states: Tennessee (TN), Arkansas(AR), Missouri (MO), Kentucky (KY), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Michigan (MI), Ohio (OH), West Virginia (WV), Virginia (VA), and North Carolina (NC)
93 MSI (HBCU, HSI, PBI, AANAPISI, ANNH & NASNTI)
141 Community organizations
38 Industry partners
1438 healthcare partners (IHRSA, HPSA)
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