UF Researchers Use AI To Predict New Coronavirus Variants
A world awash in waves of novel coronavirus variants is left to react
to each new emergence. Will this one be as deadly as delta? As
transmissible as omicron?
Imagine if we could get ahead of the curve and predict the next one.
That’s the goal of a new $3.7 million research grant led by University
of Florida professors Marco Salemi, Ph.D., and Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D,, M.Eng., and funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“The coronavirus is a moving target and we have always been one step
behind,” said Salemi, a professor of experimental pathology in the UF College of Medicine’s department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine and
the Stephany W. Holloway University Chair in AIDS Research. “Every time
the epidemic seems to be coming under control, another variant emerges
that is more virulent — not necessarily causing more severe disease, but
certainly more transmissible — and it spreads again.”
BioFlorida is the voice of Florida's life sciences industry, representing 8,600 establishments and research organizations in the BioPharma, MedTech, Digital Health and Health Systems that collectively employ nearly 107,000 Floridians. Source: TEConomy/BIO (released 2022)
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