{"id":19106,"date":"2020-05-18T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19106"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:59","slug":"special-covid-19-propelling-original-data-science-pods-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/18\/special-covid-19-propelling-original-data-science-pods-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Special COVID-19 Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cafarella-covid-700x315.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"wp-image-18863\"\/><figcaption>Artistic rendering of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. (Freepik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/midas.umich.edu\/grants\/covid-pods-grants\/\">awardees of its COVID-19 data science grants<\/a>.&nbsp;Seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, received funding for COVID-19 research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With data science methods at the core, these teams combat the pandemic in varied and creative ways, including better clinical decisions for in-patients, strategies to improve testing, data-driven guidance for social distancing and reopening, detection of high-risk communities; and addressing inequality in healthcare and in the society\u2019s recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These projects, along with many other excellent proposals we wish we had funding for, demonstrate the resolve, expertise and creativity of U-M data scientists facing a public health catastrophe.&nbsp; They lend us hope that science will help us prevail. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) announced the awardees of its COVID-19 data science grants.&nbsp;Seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, received funding for COVID-19 research. With data science methods at the core, these teams combat the pandemic in varied and creative ways, including better clinical decisions for in-patients, strategies to improve testing, data-driven guidance\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/18\/special-covid-19-propelling-original-data-science-pods-grants\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[175,810,103,130],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-award","tag-covid","tag-midas","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1-125x88.jpg",125,88,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1-286x200.jpg",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",600,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MIDAS_logo-1.jpg",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kristin Burgard, MIDAS","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/burgardk\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last week, the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) announced the awardees of its COVID-19 data science grants.&nbsp;Seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, received funding for COVID-19 research. 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