Current Grant Awards

MII faculty lead a number of biomedical informatics and data science projects, working with engineers, clinicians, and other researchers to advance knowledge discovery and patient healthcare delivery. You can find out more information on our presently funded extramural research projects below.

blue-yellow kidneys

Significant health disparities exist in chronic kidney disease (CKD), CKD progression, and end stage renal disease (ESRD) in ethnically diverse…

Blue digital data

The confluence of machine learning (ML) data-driven approaches and increased computational power, alongside access to the…

mHealth tracker

Heart failure is a debilitating disease that affects over five million people in the United States and in 2012 had a direct cost of over $30.7…

Stroke

Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States, with approximately 795,000 Americans experiencing a new or recurrent…

Blue lung

The rollout of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung screening programs is accelerating in the United States, aiming…

prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, accounting for 26% of new cancer diagnoses and 9% of cancer deaths in…

Joint decision making

We are implementing a prototype next-generation decision support system called SmartDx, which learns the optimal sequence of diagnostic tests…

Inhaler usage

The Los Angeles (LA) PRISMS Center aims to be the leader in the development and application of mobile health (mHealth)…