{"id":597,"date":"2024-09-04T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/health-innovation\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-09-04T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:06:31","slug":"gabor-fichtinger-and-his-team-have-been-awarded-a-grant-from-the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-czi-in-support-of-their-ongoing-efforts-in-the-theme-of-ai-in-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/health-innovation\/gabor-fichtinger-and-his-team-have-been-awarded-a-grant-from-the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-czi-in-support-of-their-ongoing-efforts-in-the-theme-of-ai-in-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabor Fichtinger and his team have been awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in support of their ongoing efforts in the theme of AI in Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Gabor Fichtinger and his team have been awarded, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, a third grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in support of their ongoing efforts in the theme of AI in Global Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project: 3D Slicer for African Scientists: Enabling AI for Health<\/em> received $400,000 US grant by the\u00a0Wellcome Trust<\/a>\u00a0through CZI <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3D Slicer is a free open-source software platform for medical imaging data analysis, 3D visualization, and image-guided therapy used in clinical research, education and commercial products worldwide, through nearly seven million downloads from all continents, including even Antarctica. However, the platform is only available in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is part of a larger program, our third grant from CZI for global health efforts,\u201d Dr. Fichtinger, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computer-Integrated Surgery, explains. \u201cThe first one was for Africa, second for Latin America, and this one for Africa again. Queen\u2019s is co-leading; we are running these grants through Harvard University with Dr. Sonia Pujol. Our larger Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ is to provide free-source software resources for the global community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story at: <\/p>\n\n\n\n