NIH T32 Training Program

Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition Science Research (AIPrN)

The NIH AIPrN program goal is to build a future workforce that will use growing data resources to tackle complex biomedical challenges in nutrition science that are beyond human intuition. This application, aligning with the NIH AIPrN program goal, proposes a new predoctoral and post-doctoral research training program in AI-Precision Nutrition at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically black university, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, designed to provide multidisciplinary training in computational data skills and precision nutrition to address the unbalanced access to adequate nutrition and health based onreal-world research projects covering obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. The program aims to train predoctoral students pursuing Electrical and Computer Engineering studies with specialty in AI/ML to acquire practical and hands-on experience in handling and analyzing big and complex nutrition and health data for precision nutrition and post-doctoral fellow of nutritional science in AI/ML skills to utilize such skills to answer complex biological and clinical questions in precision nutrition. The team at PVAMU will partner with the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas Medical Center to provide our trainees with state-of-the-art nutritional research. Specifically, the program will

1. recruit, train, and financially support predoctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in AI/ML or nutritional science to the AI-Precision Nutrition research training program as a mechanism to build a skilled workforce of scientists integrating AI and Precision Nutrition to address nutrition and health issues;
2. develop and enhance research training, technical, and mentorship opportunities for such trainees to prepare, build capacity, and advance the field of knowledge and collaborative and integrated research in AI-Precision Nutrition approaches to tackle nutrition and health issues; and
3. provide professional development and foster leadership skills in AI-Precision Nutrition for our trainees who are positioned to apply for fellowships, grants, and as a way to facilitate exposure to careers in AI-Precision Nutrition research and transition to research-intensive careers in academia, industry, the NIH, and private foundations.

This program is supported by NIH AI-Precision Nutrition (AIPrN) program (NIH Office of the Director and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities), 5T32MD018933-03

Email: aiprn@pvamu.edu