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Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award to explore LLMs as a support to caregivers of individuals with dementia

The Rippl team (formerly Kinto) led by Joseph Chung is part of a GY3 pilot award collaborating with McLean Hospital to evaluate Rippl's LLM as a resource for caregivers of individuals with dementia and to determine if it gives accurate and useful information and appropriate emotional support to caregiver queries. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/18/creating-a-framework-for-large-language-models-for-caregiver-support-in-dementia/

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Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award for attachment-less smartphone blood-pressure monitoring advancement

The Billion Labs Inc team led by Ed Wang has received a GY3 pilot award to further develop and achieve FDA clearance for a novel zero-attachments, smartphone only solution, VibroBP, to enable ubiquitous, low-cost blood pressure monitoring. The VibroBP technology was a result of the GY1 pilot work on the BPClip. Limitations of the mechanical solution led to the software only innovation. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/19/a-downloadable-oscillometric-bp-monitor-for-all-smartphones-with-no-attachments/#

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Accelerating Balance Recovery Using Adaptive EVS Therapy

John Ralston, Neursantys Inc. VP Nguyen, UMass Amherst This project will develop ML-driven methods to adapt EVS stimulus parameters to each patient’s unique sensory and motor impairment profile to increase the effectiveness of NEURVESTA’s current treatment protocol.

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AI-Based Video App for At-Home Monitoring of Motor Functions in PD Patients

Hamed Tabkhi, Mona Azarbayjani, ForesightCares Inc. Sanjay Iyer, Memory & Movement Charlotte. The pilot project focused on developing and validating an AI-based visual assessment (AVA) app for at-home monitoring of motor function in older adults with Parkinson’s Disease (PD).

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Protecting Patients against Phishing Attacks using AI-enabled Agents

Gang Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Roopa Foulger, OSF. This project will design, prototype, evaluate, and potentially deploy an AI-enabled voice agent to assist patients (especially older adults) to better recognize phishing messages and reduce cybersecurity risks during patient outreach and communications.

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A Downloadable Oscillometric BP Monitor for All Smartphones with No Attachments

Edward Jay Wang, Billion Labs Inc. This project aims to establish accessible early screening of hypertension by democratizing BP monitoring. We aim to achieve this by converting the billions of smartphones into oscillometric BP monitors without hardware add-ons.

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A Digital Dyadic Coach to Promote Oral Health Self-Care in Older Adults

Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani, University of Michigan. Vivek Shetty, UCLA. Guy Shani, Michigan State University. Susan A. Murphy, Harvard University. This project seeks to develop a novel AI-powered digital tool to empower older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) to engage in oral self-care in at-home settings.

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