The San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) www.utsalsi.org has awarded grant funding through the SALSI Innovation Challenge for $200,000 to enable scientists at the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center in San Antonio and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to research technology solutions in healthcare.
SALSI is a collaborative partnership established between the Health Science Center and UTSA. The SALSI Innovation Challenge www.utsaisi.org/funding-detail/salsi-innovation-challenge funds high risk high reward studies to do ground breaking research in health informatics and bioinformatics.
SALSI estalished.by the Texas legislature has strengthened research in life sciences which is one of the fastest growing industries in the state and a $30.6 billion industry in San Antonio.
Another project with Yidong Chen PhD at the Health Science Center and Yutel Huang PhD at UTSA, has conducted research in cloud computing to offer greater precision in medicine. The researchers received $100,000 to research a project titled “A Cloud Computing Pipeline for Precision Medicine”. Their research will explore how to integrate EMR data from healthcare providers in the San Antonio area with linked genomics data.