One in three American adults has high blood pressure. To combat this, Dr. Roozbeh Jafari and his team received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a blood pressure system a user can wear all night while they sleep for constant readings.
Scientists have observed that many nonsurviving adult patients severely ill with COVID-19 developed bacterial pneumonia caused by emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A research team led by Dr. Shuiwang Ji is participating in an open challenge aimed to help develop new antibiotics to fight the bacteria through machine learning.
