NYU Abu Dhabi Clinical AI Lab

Strategy

Economic Empowerment; Access to Healthcare

Summary

This research grant supports the work of Dr. Farah Shamout, Principal Investigator at the Clinical AI Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. The grant seeks to advance AI-driven healthcare research in the UAE, strengthen local expertise, and elevate the role of women led research in the region.

Who

The Clinical AI Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi is a multidisciplinary research lab that advances health and well-being using data, engineering, and computing.

What

This grant will support pioneering research at the Clinical AI Lab, building reliable and robust AI decision-support systems in the following healthcare areas: brain health, women’s health, oncology, and in-hospital clinical decision support. The research projects two interconnected pillars:

• Developing novel and original machine learning models
• Identifying high-impact clinically meaningful problems and understanding characteristics of real-world data

This grant further supports mentorship and training of undergraduate scholars and early-career scientists, fostering local expertise in clinical AI, and strengthening the next generation of AI researchers in the UAE.