NWO Veni Grant for Chang Sun
Assistant Professor Dr. Chang Sun received an NWO Veni grant for her project proposal "Generative AI for Causal Treatment-Toxicity Analysis in Rare Blood Cancers”.
This project will explore whether generative AI and synthetic data can help us understand treatment effects and toxicity in diseases where patient data is too scarce for traditional methods.
Patients with rare blood cancers suffer serious side effects from treatment (e.g., heart damage, severe infections). Because these diseases are rare, clinical trials and hospital records include too few patients to understand when and why these side effects happen. This research explores whether simulated patient trajectories can help fill this knowledge gap. By combining medical knowledge with generative AI, this project creates realistic treatment pathways and evaluates when they can be trusted for research. This allows researchers to study cause-and-effect relationships and ask “what-if” questions, such as what might have happened if a patient had received a different treatment.
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