{"652990":{"#nid":"652990","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech researchers making breakthroughs treating COVID-19","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe symptoms and side effects of Covid-19 are scattered across a diagnostic spectrum. Some patients are asymptomatic or experience a mild immune response, while others report significant long-term illnesses, lasting complications, or suffer fatal outcomes.\u0026nbsp;Three researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; Professor,\u0026nbsp;Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair, and\u0026nbsp;GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-skolnick\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E; Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/people\/Courtney-Astore\u0022\u003ECourtney Astore\u003C\/a\u003E, and senior research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/hongyi-zhou\u0022\u003EHongyi Zhou\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;and one from Emory University are trying to help clinicians sort through these factors and spectrum of patient outcomes by equipping healthcare professionals with a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cssb\/moatai-vir\/\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;decision prioritization tool.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;The team\u0026rsquo;s new artificial intelligence-based tool helps clinicians understand and better predict which adverse effects their Covid-19 patients could experience, based on comorbidities and current side effects \u0026mdash; and, in turn, also helps suggest specific Food and Drug Administration-approved (FDA) drugs that could help treat the disease and improve patient health outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-11-18 15:15:45","changed_gmt":"2021-11-18 15:15:45","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/video\/local-video\/georgia-tech-researchers-making-breakthroughs-treating-covid-19\/ac5ebc1b-ebde-4836-b69c-1e9e7248145d\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11937","name":"Jeffrey Skolnick"},{"id":"189146","name":"Courtney Astore"},{"id":"187859","name":"Hongyi Zhou"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}