HUNTSVILLE — The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has been awarded an opportunity to help improve the lives of children with rare diseases and their families.
The opportunity for the Huntsville-based institute will be realized through the 2025 Amazon Web Services Imagine Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award.
The Children’s Health Innovation Award recognizes highly innovative, mission-critical projects accelerating children’s health innovation using advanced cloud services.
The grant will support HudsonAlpha’s efforts to help clinicians and researchers better understand rare diseases that affect children and their families.
HudsonAlpha will use the grant to further develop its medical analysis tool to help healthcare professionals and researchers better understand rare diseases that affect children and their families.
“We’re thankful to Amazon for recognizing this project and investing in HudsonAlpha,” said Neil Lamb, PhD, president of HudsonAlpha. “Partnerships like this that help children and their families right here in Alabama are exactly the reason the Institute was founded, and we couldn’t be happier with the progress this grant will help us make on this project.
“We’re talking about real life-changing work.”
Through the grant, HudsonAlpha will receive a combination of funding and AWS computing credits, along with implementation support from technical specialists. Proposals were evaluated based on several criteria, including the innovative and unique nature of the project, impact on mission-critical goals, and clearly defined outcomes and milestones.
The system utilizes cloud technology and artificial intelligence to rapidly analyze patients’ genetic information, enabling a more accurate determination of the cause of a child’s rare disease and the identification of more effective treatment approaches. The tool is updated with the latest medical discoveries, allowing families to obtain answers about their children’s health conditions.
“This year’s AWS Children’s Health Innovation Award recipients are truly inspiring,” said Allyson Fryhoff, managing director, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. “These leading pediatric institutions are using AWS technology to transform how we care for children worldwide. From using generative AI for personalized treatment decisions to creating predictive analytics for disease prevention, their projects share a powerful vision: making high-quality care more accessible, predictive, and effective for every child.
“At AWS, we’re proud to support this collaborative innovation that’s building a future where every child can access the best possible care, informed by data and delivered with precision and compassion.”
By focusing on children’s health, AWS said it seeks to bring more focus and attention to a wide variety of causes and care organizations that are dedicated to helping children live longer, healthier lives through the strategic use of cloud technology.
Since the launch of the Imagine Grant program in 2018, AWS has awarded more than $16 million in unrestricted funding, AWS cloud computing credits, and technical expertise to more than 140 nonprofit organizations. Learn more about past recipients and how nonprofits use AWS to advance their missions around the world at the AWS for nonprofits hub.
For more information on the AWS Imagine Grant, visit the Imagine Grant website.
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