Announcements > Best et al Receive NIH Grant Funded by Recovery Act
April 2009
Thomas Best, MD, PhD, co-medical director of OSU Sports Medicine Center and Professor / Pomerene Chair in Family Medicine, along with colleagues from Bioinformatics and Endocrinology, have been awarded a two-year, $500,000 grant from NIH that will be funded by the Recovery Act. Dr. Metin Gurcan, from Bioinformatics, will serve as Principal Investigator supported by Dr. Best, Dr. Philip Payne from Bioinformatics, and Dr. Rebecca Jackson from Endocrinology as Co-Investigators. Their project, "OAMiner: Integrative Knowledge Anchored Hypothesis Discovery." is designed to addrerss the ever increasing need for integrated knowledge discovery in biology and medicine. Its goal is to enable the discovery, verification, and validation of hypotheses concerning interrelationships between image-based, phenotypic, and bio-molecular features in heterogeneous data sets by leveraging multiple conceptual knowledge sources - ultimately supporting "high throughput" knowledge-driven translational science. To provide for a manageable project scope, Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) data sets will be used as a primary, motivating use case for the development and evaluation of the project research projects.
