The Bitterman Lab is grateful to have been awarded a new R01 from the National Cancer Institute for AI-CChaSE: AI-enabled Cancer CHatbots for Symptom Education.

This 5-year project will develop new methods and benchmarks for guideline-grounded cancer chatbots that improve symptom education and communication. The work focuses on improving factual question-answering about symptoms, simplifying complex guideline and electronic health record content for different end users, and studying patient and clinician needs to support user-centered chatbot design.

We are excited to pursue this work with collaborators including Harry S. Hochheiser and Guergana K. Savova, while keeping patient and clinician stakeholders centered throughout the research.

You can learn more about the new grant here.