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Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center

Award Number: U54TR004279
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/19/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2027

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Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center - Abstract – Overall AIMINGS Center The vision of this proposed Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics, for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center is to implement computational and data science approaches and tools to advance nutrition for precision health in a way that accounts for the complex systems involved. Many existing data sets include extraneous data, making them difficult to analyze at best, and at worst, prone to generating misleading or biased insights. Thus, there is a need to for new approaches, methods, and tools to collapse and distill data to make them more Artificial Intelligence (AI)-ready and ready for a range of different analyses. This coincides with the goal of Project 1: to develop and utilize The Data Distiller for Precision Nutrition, a set of approached and tools that can collapse and distill nutrition-relevant data to create datasets that are AI- ready and ready for a range of other analyses. The first objective of the Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) program is to “examine individual differences observed in response to different diets by studying the interactions between diet, genes, proteins, microbiome, metabolism and other individual contextual factors.” Given the type of missing data we face in nutrition, and the importance of establishing causal relationships rather than correlations, there is a need for new imputation methods. To address this, Project 2, the Causal Relationship Disentangler, will introduce new approaches for handling missing data while preserving causal structure. Learning how to transfer causal knowledge and doing so with missing data is critical for realizing the potential of nutrition for precision health. The NPH program’s other objectives are “to use AI to develop algorithms to predict individual responses to foods and dietary patterns,” and “to validate algorithms for clinical application.” This requires bringing different causal pathways together to understand how they interact. Agent-based models (ABMs) can help and serve as virtual laboratories to predict how different people may respond to a particular diet under different circumstances. Therefore, the goal of Project 3 (The Virtual Human for Precision Nutrition) is to develop an ABM tool that can help better understand and predict an individual's response to food and dietary patterns, while bringing together and accounting for the interactions between genetic, physiological, and behavioral factors. However, focusing on the individual alone will not be enough to address all aspects of NPH. Therefore, the Virtual Public Health Precision Nutrition Laboratory (Project 4) will develop ABMs that represent and account for the systems outside individuals such as their social, economic, and built environments. An Administrative and Coordination Core will oversee all operations and a pilot program. A Data Systems Core (DSC) will leverage the substantial computing resources of CUNY, West Point, and the Department of Defense to create a flexible cloud-based architecture for data flow and a collaborative workspace. A Computational Systems Core will provide resources and personnel to support the DSC and tool development/deployment.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2026	2025	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	4	12/9/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $986,359 )
2025	2025	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	001	4	8/8/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$986,359
2025	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	3	7/12/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $986,359

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $813,678 )
2024	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	005	3	9/16/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$813,678
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	2	11/6/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	004	2	3/18/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	002	2	12/21/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	001	2	12/13/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 W 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	003	2	2/29/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $813,678

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $1,297,478 )
2023	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 WEST 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	2	3/2/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$1,297,478
														Subtotal = $1,297,478

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $1,212,504 )
2022	2022	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 WEST 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	1	1/19/2022	NEW	$1,212,504
2022	2022	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	55 WEST 125TH ST FL 7	NEW YORK	NY	10027	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	001	1	6/22/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $1,212,504

Grand Total All Awards = $4,310,019

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Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center

Award Number: U54TR004279

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/19/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2027

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