Lehigh University’s team received a four-year, $2.8 million NIH grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop UniBrain, a unified AI platform for brain imaging analysis. The project aims to combine preprocessing and downstream brain-network analytics into one system, reducing the multi-step workflow complexity that can take weeks for large datasets. The platform is designed to incorporate information from multiple imaging modalities and produce interpretable outputs, with collaborators including investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Emory University, and the University of Pittsburgh. The announcement emphasizes development and efficiency rather than demonstrated clinical efficacy. For biotech and translational researchers, the practical angle is workflow consolidation: unified pipelines can accelerate observational biomarker studies and shorten iteration cycles for neurodegenerative and psychiatric research, even before prospective clinical validation is established.