Expeditions Forum events are intended to catalyze transdisciplinary collaborations to overcome research barriers, sharpen intent, and revisit research approaches. During this event, UAB investigators are invited to watch a live webinar on a federal interagency funding opportunity (details below) and subsequently participate in an ideation session. Snacks will be provided.

AGENDA

• 2-3 PM: NSF-NIH Smart Health Solicitation Webinar
• 3-4 PM: Moderated collaboration and ideation session

Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science

PROGRAM SOLICITATION (NSF 23-614)

Program Information: This interagency solicitation is a collaboration between NSF and the NIH. The Smart Health program supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical and public health research, which can only be achieved by well-coordinated, convergent, and interdisciplinary approaches that draw from multiple domains of computer and information science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Therefore, the work to be funded by this solicitation must make fundamental scientific or engineering contributions to two or more disciplines, such as computer or information sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, statistics, social, behavioral, or cognitive sciences to improve fundamental understanding of human biological, biomedical, public health and/or health-related processes and address a key health problem. The research teams must include members with appropriate and demonstrable expertise in the major areas involved in the work. Traditional disease-centric medical, clinical, pharmacological, biological or physiological studies and evaluations are outside the scope of this solicitation. In addition, fundamental biological research with humans that also does not advance other fundamental science or engineering areas is out of scope for this program. Finally, proposals addressing health indirectly in the education or work environment are also out of scope.