{"id":246882,"date":"2026-11-08T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/can-an-ai-co-scientist-accelerate-cancer-research"},"modified":"2026-11-08T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:08:06","slug":"can-an-ai-co-scientist-accelerate-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/can-an-ai-co-scientist-accelerate-cancer-research","title":{"rendered":"Can an AI \u2018Co-Scientist\u2019 Accelerate Cancer Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/dbmi.hms.harvard.edu\/people\/marinka-zitnik\">Marinka Zitnik<\/a>, associate professor of biomedical informatics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, has received a grant of nearly $7 million from Cancer Grand Challenges to create artificial intelligence (AI) \u201cco-scientists\u201d that help cancer researchers analyze data, generate hypotheses, and suggest new experiments, speeding new knowledge and therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as AURORA, includes an additional $4 million to three international teams across Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which will evaluate the effectiveness of the \u201cco-scientists\u201d in their ongoing studies of next-generation CAR T-cell therapies, cancer initiation, and tumor-immune interaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/news-events\/sign-email-communications\" title=\"Sign Up for Email Communications\">Get more HMS news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by Marinka Zitnik, associate professor of biomedical informatics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, has received a grant of nearly $7 million from Cancer Grand Challenges to create artificial intelligence (AI) \u201cco-scientists\u201d that help cancer researchers analyze data, generate hypotheses, and suggest new experiments, speeding new knowledge and therapies. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}