Fan Zhang, PhD, sees artificial intelligence as a pathway to finding an effective way to combat an intractable enemy: rheumatoid arthritis.
Zhang is an assistant professor in the University of Colorado Department of Medicine’s Division of Rheumatology and also is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Informatics on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. She recently received a highly competitive grant from the Arthritis Foundation to further her work in harnessing AI to better predict the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in particular patients, and a new paper documents the latest steps in her work.
Zhang’s research focus is developing methods involving computational machine learning – using algorithms to learn from data and make predictions – to study RA and other autoimmune diseases, drawing on…