Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., along with Dr. Marco Salemi, Ph.D., received the R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to build an algorithm to spot new COVID-19 variants of concern. This $3.7 million grant team includes collaborators Drs. Maria Luisa Alcaide and Deborah Jones, University of Miami, and machine learning researchers and engineers at the University of Pavia, Italy.