The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) and the Ministry of Innovation Science and Technology of the State of Israel (MOST) are pleased to announce the results of the joint call in “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HEALTHCARE Bilateral Research Cooperation Program MOST-FRQS” launched in June 2022. Each FRQS-funded team will receive a maximum of $150,000 over a 3-year period. The projects will be carried out in collaboration with teams from the State of Israel that will be funded by MOST for a maximum of ILS 360,000 over a 3-year.

Below is the list of recipients:

Names of the candidates

Institutions

Title of the project

Yoram SHIR / Amir MINERBI

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre / Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Artificial Intelligence Algorithms as a Diagnostic aid in Individuals with Chronic Pain

Julien COHEN-ADAD / Anat ACHIRON

Polytechnique Montréal / Tel Aviv University

An open and scalable federated learning framework for brain and spinal cord MRI to predict outcomes in multiple sclerosis

Lee TODD / Leonard LEIBOVICI LEONARD

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre / Tel Aviv University

Optimizing antibiotic treatment of bacteremia using AI algorithms

Information:

Maxime Beaudoin
Programs Manager
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé
514 873-2114 EXT. 4369

israel.quebec.ia@frq.gouv.qc.ca