Insider Brief

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been awarded $2 million in funding, secured by Congressman Tom Suozzi, to establish a Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Center for Advanced Cancer Diagnostics, leveraging AI to enhance cancer diagnostics.
• The funding will support the laboratory’s AI-powered research, utilizing supercomputers to analyze cancer cell interactions with healthy tissue, furthering advances in predictive cancer diagnostics.
• CSHL’s efforts, supported by federal leaders like Suozzi and Senator Chuck Schumer, position the laboratory at the forefront of cancer research, utilizing cutting-edge technology to drive progress in understanding cancer.

PRESS RELEASE — Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Queens) has announced that the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been awarded $2 million in funding, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to establish a Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Center for Advanced Cancer Diagnostics.

Suozzi secured the funding in 2022 for Fiscal Year 2023. This week, Suozzi joined Dr. Bruce Stillman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, to tour the new supercomputer storage infrastructure system at CSHL

“The groundbreaking work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, combining neuroscience with AI, is truly remarkable,” said Suozzi. “I am proud to have played a pivotal role in securing a $2 million NIH grant to help establish computational modeling to further AI-based diagnostic and predictive tools for advanced cancer diagnostics.”

“Community Project Funding (CPF) grants, such as this one for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, are not only furthering advancements in AI diagnostics but simply saving lives. We must work together to continue supporting cutting-edge research such as what is happening right here at CSHL,” furthered Suozzi.

The Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Center for Advanced Cancer Diagnostics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is leveraging advances in AI to view cancer cells as they interact with healthy tissue. CSHL is at the forefront of this research. Its supercomputer-powered AI is critical in the fight against cancer. This state-of-the-art technology requires vast amounts of data storage, the cost of which has been offset by the CPF grant secured by Suozzi.

“We are extremely grateful for the support of our federal delegation in championing our growth efforts,” Stillman said. “Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Tom Suozzi’s leadership has been critical in securing funding for the advancement of science at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This Center represents the future of cancer research and will greatly assist in our battle to understand the second deadliest killer in the U.S.”

About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:

Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,000 people, including 600 scientists, students, and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program hosts more than 12,000 scientists from around the world each year on its campuses in Long Island and Suzhou, China. The Laboratory’s education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school, and programs for middle, high school, and undergraduate students and teachers.

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Featured image: Credit: Tom Suozzi