Consortium uses AI to accelerate Alzheimer's research
NVIDIA Blog: How AI Is Changing the Pace of Discovery for Millions Living With Dementia
There are 57 million people worldwide living with dementia today. For the researchers working to help them, the obstacle isn’t a lack of effort — it’s too much data, too few experts to synthesize it and a pace of discovery that can’t keep up with the disease. The Consortium for Biomedical Research and AI in Neurodegeneration (C-BRAIN), working with NVIDIA, is using AI to change that. Alzheimer’s disease is one of today’s leading global health challenges, with over 10 million new dementia cases
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A consortium of research institutions is using AI tools to accelerate the discovery of Alzheimer's treatments by analyzing previously inaccessible research data across member organizations. The obstacle to finding treatments has not been lack of effort or funding, but rather too much data scattered across institutions, too few experts to analyze it, and a pace of discovery that cannot keep up with the disease's progression. The consortium is building systems that use AI to work with data stored at different institutions without moving it, while also creating open source tools that can complete analyses in minutes rather than weeks or months. By year three, the consortium aims to discover new causal mechanisms of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease using this comprehensive approach to research.
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