AI Unbound: Challenging Scientific Boundaries in Physiology Research and Data Science

Danielle Cherrice Loving received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on developing novel modularized approaches to chemical synthesis, which can be integrated with AI-enabled democratized drug discovery efforts.

Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry, director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and co-director of Digital Mental Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as director of the Great Lakes Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. Karnik’s research focuses on data science, technology, and community-based interventions for vulnerable populations with psychiatric and substance use disorders.

Ray Dorsey, MD, is the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology and director of the Center for Health + Technology at the University of Rochester in New York. Dorsey’s work focuses on the use of novel technologies to improve care and expedite research for those with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological diseases.