We are excited to announce our new AIRFoundry project: a collaboration that spans Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine. Our vision is to use data integration and AI techniques to accelerate the process by which scientists can develop new RNA therapies and treatments — for medicine, crop engineering, and more. The knowledge platform in the AIRFoundry, called KAIR, will build upon state-of-the-art methods from language models and text extraction, experimental dataset search, and data integration — to help point scientists to promising candidate RNA molecules for optimization and validation.
The AIRFoundry team is led by Professors Daeyeon Lee (Penn CBE), David Issadore (Penn BE), Zack Ives (Penn CIS), Drew Weissman (Penn Medicine), and Claribel Acevedo-Velez (U Puerto Rico); in collaboration with many investigators spanning Penn, Drexel, and U Puerto Rico.