Grants Archive - Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Clinical decision making in ulcerative colitis relies on practice guidelines and physician experience, but both have limitations. Guidelines offer broad advice that may not apply to individual patients while physician experience is subjective and error prone. Dr. Rudrapatna will address these limitations using reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence that learns to make optimal […]

Therapies that help heal the lining of the intestines are needed in IBD care. These therapies are not currently available because it is not yet fully understood how the intestine repairs itself after an injury. Dr. Belle seeks to understand whether nerves of the intestines help orchestrate intestinal regeneration.

Provides afterschool TK-2 literacy intervention for students, coaching and training for educators, and literacy development capacity building for families.

Expands families’ capacity to support literacy development and schools’ capacity to engage families.

Convenes literacy leaders and provides literacy coaching and consultation to Oakland schools, as well as literacy advocacy locally and nationally.