Ishihara Lab receives $2.25M Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science award
The Ishihara Lab has been awarded $2.25 million from Google.org’s Impact Challenge: AI for Science, part of $36 million in total funding distributed to 17 recipients worldwide, selected from more than 3,000 applicants across 30 countries.
The project pairs geometric artificial intelligence with human cardiac organoids to identify genetic switches that could enable heart regeneration. The team will analyze 2.7 million single-cell profiles across species to discover regulatory genes present in regenerative species but absent in humans, then validate these findings through genetic screening in lab-grown heart tissue, in collaboration with Melanie Weber (Harvard University) and Hattie Chung (Yale School of Medicine).
“This grant lets us ask a question that no single lab could answer alone: What separates a heart that regenerates from one that scars?” said Keisuke Ishihara, principal investigator.
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