{"id":668,"date":"2026-03-03T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:51:35","slug":"vote-for-the-oto-coati-lab-in-the-2026-stat-madness-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/2026\/03\/03\/vote-for-the-oto-coati-lab-in-the-2026-stat-madness-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE for the OTO-COATI Lab in the 2026 STAT MADNESS Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">A collaborative research project conducted by Boston Medical Center&#8217;s OTO-COATI Lab and Boston University College of Engineering&#8217;s BMO Lab is competing in STAT MADNESS &#8211; a nation-wide March Madness bracket-style competition, but for innovative scientific research instead of basketball. Please support our labs by voting for our project after logging into or creating your account on<span>\u00a0<\/span><b data-ogsc=\"\"><a id=\"OWAd2afd5d2-d9e4-ebb4-b674-f02984f9df17\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/stat-madness\/bracket-voting-now-open\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/stat-madness\/bracket-voting-now-open\/\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">STAT News<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(200, 38, 19)\"><b data-ogsc=\"\">EACH PERSON CAN VOTE ONCE A DAY, EVERY DAY! WE NEED ALL THE VOTES WE CAN GET! ROUND 1 ENDS ON SUNDAY MARCH 8, 2026!<\/b><\/h5>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>In this first round of the competition, our project, listed under Boston Medical Center as &#8220;PRECISION FOR ORAL CANCER SURGERY&#8221; is facing up against University of Iowa&#8217;s &#8220;A NEW TOOL FOR BLADDER CANCER&#8221;. Please help us beat University of Iowa and advance to Round 2 of the competition by voting every day this week and spreading the word to your friends and colleagues.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"markxzx3v91ex uM2yb\"><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Congratulations to<\/span> everyone who contributed to this project and made this recognition possible, including clinical team leaders Dr. Gregory Grillone &amp; Dr. Gintas Krisciunas; engineering team leaders Dr. Irving Bigio &amp; Dr. Ousama A&#8217;amar; machine-learning expert Dr. Eladio Rodriguez-Diaz; and the many collaborators and contributors from the OTO-COATI Lab, BMO Lab, BMC Departments of Otolaryngology, OMFS, Pathology, Tufts Medical Center, and VA Boston Healthcare System!<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/research\/#:~:text=Studies%20Related%20to%20Spectroscopy%20for%20Detecting%20Head%20%26%20Neck%20Cancer\">here<\/a> to learn more about the project.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative research project conducted by Boston Medical Center&#8217;s OTO-COATI Lab and Boston University College of Engineering&#8217;s BMO Lab is competing in STAT MADNESS &#8211; a nation-wide March Madness bracket-style competition, but for innovative scientific research instead of basketball. Please support our labs by voting for our project after logging into or creating your account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}