Awards

The research team led by Dr. Xinghua Lu at the University of Pittsburgh has received multiple awards in international competitions in AI and medicine.

The Sage Bionetwork-DREAM Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge


The University of Pittsburgh team led by Dr. Xinghua Lu won the 2nd place in this international challenge, among 350 teams/participants from 35 countries. The task was to use genomic data of breast cancer patients to predict patient prognosis.


2019 WMIF | BioBank Award Announcement


The team from the University of Pittsburgh led by Dr. Xinghua Lu won tied 1st place in the Partner Biobank AI competition.

Tied 1st Place: University of Pittsburgh & IBM

3rd Place: MIT/Harvard University

Systems Biology Verification (SBV): Species Translation Challenges


The University of Pittsburgh team led by Dr. Xinghua Lu won tied 1st place in the sub-challenge 4: translating knowledge learned from model organisms to human.