UC Berkeley wins $1.7M Google.org grant for AI-driven medical discovery
2plus2make5 · x · 2026-10-15
UC Berkeley researchers have been awarded $1.7M from Google.org to advance medical discovery using AI. Led by @2plus2make5 and @oziadias with collaborators including Rajiv Movva, dmshanmugam, and Alex Schubert, the project combines sparse autoencoders and agentic approaches to accelerate discovery in cardiology and oncology.
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