科学家提供的一项耗资400万美元的分包合同赠款，以从全国各地的病毒研究人员那里收集COVID-19的数据，以开发数据协调中心，已向休斯敦德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的研beplay苹果手机能用吗究人员授予（UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics.

这笔耗资400万美元的分包赠款是加州大学圣地亚哥分校（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）的2300万美元赠款的一部分，该赠款由卢西拉·奥诺·马卡多（Lucila Ohno-Machado）领导迭戈。

The collaboration between UC San Diego and UTHealth will bring together data scientists and infectious diseases specialists who will regulate viral samples, COVID-19 testing and procedures, and data in order to integrate and share information in a timely manner. The team led by Hua Xu, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine atUTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics，将负责构建数据共享平台。

“We will be receiving data and organizing this information to make it easily accessible to other researchers as well as understandable to the public,” Xu said. “We are excited about this project. This grant will allow us to expand our capabilities and I hope through this data platform we can accelerate the development of diagnostic testing for COVID-19.”

beplay苹果手机能用吗研究人员将在诊断迅速加速下从48个资助项目中传播数据 -激进（RADX-RAD）程序, including studies on at-home testing efficacy, wastewater analysis, next generation sequencing, and real-time tracing or detection of the virus.

“Dr. Xu is a national leader in biomedical informatics research and development,” said Jiajie Zhang, PhD, dean and The Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence of the School of Biomedical Informatics. “The data center established by this grant will provide an unparalleled platform for researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, policy makers, and patients to better understand and manage the COVID pandemic for the short- and long-term.”

The project is funded by the National Institutes of Health (RFA-OD-20-019).

Additional co-investigators with the School of Biomedical Informatics on this project include Elmer Bernstam, MD, MS; Jingcheng Du, PhD; Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD; and Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS. Investigators from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth include Bernstam and Guo-Qiang Zhang, PhD, MS. Bernstam is also on faculty of MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

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