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This Philadelphia doctor’s story of saving his own life is being made into a movie: ‘I almost died five times’

This Philadelphia doctor’s story of saving his own life is being made into a movie: ‘I almost died five times’

David Fajgenbaum and his team at Penn Medicine are repurposing existing medications with the help of artificial intelligence to treat rare diseases, a venture that began with Fajgenbaum’s own self-treatment for Castleman’s disease.

Penn students innovate in the time of AI
Helen Jin, Davis Brown

Helen Jin and Davis Brown.

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Penn students innovate in the time of AI

Students from schools across the University are putting knowledge into practice, asking deep questions and finding innovative uses for AI tools.

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Cost-effective, lifesaving weather predictions
Satellite image of Hurricane Helene, 2006

Image: Courtesy of NASA’s Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory

Cost-effective, lifesaving weather predictions

Penn professor Paris Perdikaris and collaborators developed Aurora, a machine-learning model that has predictive capabilities for air quality, ocean waves, tropical cyclone tracks, and weather.

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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Bhuvnesh Jain of the School of Arts & Sciences has teamed up with PIK University Professor René Vidal of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to create the AI x Science Fellowship offering postdoctoral researchers across the University opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bhuvnesh Jain and René Vidal have teamed up to create the AI x Science Fellowship, which builds on the thriving postdoctoral program of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration among researchers across the University.

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