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The Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics Core (GGBC) is excited to announce the addition of two new sequencing platforms: the Illumina MiSeq i100 Plus and the Oxford Nanopore PromethION 2 Solo. The MiSeq i100 Plus provides a modern solution for short-read Read more
UGA’s OpenAI, Claude and Google contracts do not allow the purchase of API credits. However, it is possible to either setup a direct contract or purchase them through a secondary vendor. Recently, working with EITS, SMDA’s AI-Pathology WG has worked out a Read more
UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence has adopted a new two-tier faculty membership structure as part of its updated bylaws. The new membership guidelines define Affiliate and Fellow roles for faculty who contribute to AI-related research, teaching, mentorship, service, and outreach Read more
UGA’s Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center announced a series of April workshops to help Sapelo2 users make better use of the university’s high-performance computing infrastructure. The training sessions cover practical skills including job scheduling, CPU and GPU resource requests, software Read more
UGA will launch two new undergraduate certificates in artificial intelligence in Fall 2026, including a new AI: Pharmaceutical Sciences certificate offered in close collaboration between SMDA, the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (PBS) and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence(IAI). Read more
UGA’s Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics Core is expanding access to on-campus RNA and DNA sequencing support, including sample quality control, library preparation, pooling, size selection, and sequencing. With affordable pricing, fast turnaround times, personalized support, and new sample drop-off locations Read more
A new Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant will support One-Two Punch Therapy, a collaborative project focused on refractory cancer in human and canine patients. The project brings together investigators from the College of Pharmacy, School of Computing, and College of Veterinary Read more
A new interdisciplinary seed grant from UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence will support the AI-Pathology Working Group’s efforts to build multimodal foundations for AI-enabled pathology at UGA. The project, Building multimodal foundations for AI-pathology at UGA, brings together expertise from Read more
Prashant Doshi, Executive Director of UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, delivered a keynote at the Precision One Health Symposium on the growing role of AI in health. The talk highlighted how artificial intelligence can support biomedical discovery, clinical translation, and Read more
The second Precision One Health Symposium highlighted how artificial intelligence and computational analysis are accelerating biomedical discovery across human, animal, and environmental health. The CVM-hosted symposium brought together researchers from across UGA to discuss how AI can support drug discovery, Read more
The Precision One Health Institute, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and School of Computing partnered to purchase new GPU-enabled compute nodes through UGA’s Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center. The new nodes include high-performance 2P compute systems with 64 CPU cores, 384 Read more
A College of Pharmacy seed grant will support “Patient-Specific SAR Studies: A New Paradigm in Medicinal Chemistry,” a project focused on developing more individualized approaches to drug discovery. The award provides $25,000 from the Dean’s Pharmacy Special Endowment Fund to Read more
The University of Georgia has appointed Prashant Doshi, professor in the School of Computing and a leading expert in artificial intelligence, as the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI). With over two decades of experience in Read more
UGA researchers are using Cushing’s disease to show how a One Health approach can connect veterinary and human medicine. Because Cushing’s is rare in people but much more common in dogs, studies in canine patients may help identify better diagnostic Read more
UGA’s inaugural Precision One Health Symposium brought together researchers from across campus to highlight early progress in collaborative health research. The symposium showcased how UGA is connecting veterinary medicine, human medicine, pharmacy, public health, agriculture, and other disciplines to better Read more