Three Society affiliates awarded grants for projects translating research into public good

Three Society affiliates were among 20 Harvard faculty whose research projects were recently awarded grants through the Frontiers of Innovation for Societal Impact Fund. Administered through Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the fund provided more than $4 million to boost projects that promise to tackle a societal challenge and generate industry support and collaboration, with the goal of translating research discoveries into societal benefits.

Chair Noah Feldman (pictured left), also the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, is one of four faculty working on Harvard's Giza Project, a digital archaeology initiative. They aim to transform the existing project into an AI Innovation Hub, generating a set of “Ethical Guidelines for AI Reconstruction” and inviting industry partners to collaborate in ways that can be broadly extrapolated to international AI research and development.

Former Junior Fellow Daniel Lieberman (1992 - 95, pictured center), the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, is part of a team award a grant for a project developing a prototype for a wearable ultrasound system to monitor musculoskeletal health, with the eventual goal of informing future strategies for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and monitoring treatment response in musculoskeletal and neuromuscular conditions.

Former Junior Fellow Shriya Srinivasan (2020 - 23, pictured right), an assistant professor of bioengineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was awarded the grant for a project restoring healthy gut activity for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Her and her collaborator's long-term goal is to create new device-based therapies that can restore healthy gut activity in people living with IBD.

For the complete list of grant recipients, please click here.