Integrating De-Identified Medical Images, Notes, EHR Data and More

UCSF Magazine highlights SPOKE Knowledge Network

Geoff Tison’s recent work highlights explainable AI for the cardiology clinc

BCHSI Faculty, Rima Arnaout, develops AI-enhanced method to detect complex congenital heart disease in fetuses.

Marina Sirota helps establish a new and improved database for preterm birth research as part of the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Network

Ida Sim publishes work on the use of mobile apps for contact tracing

Bakar Institute sponsors a successful summer Program whose aim is to provide exposure to Artificial Intelligence & Health Data Sciences to high school students who are underrepresented in this field.

NIH funds Yulin Hswen and colleagues to develop a system allowing study participants to donate their Google location history to promote a safer reopening.

This Phase Two award will expand SPOKE’s capacity to do what the human brain cannot – to integrate vast amounts of biomedical information, across many different data types, and to extract new knowledge from correlations and patterns that connect data points.

Bakar Institute faculty member is working to develop low-cost digital biomarkers for a leading cause of diabetes disease and mortality

Bakar Institute’s special edition newsletter, responses to, & resources for COVID-19.

NVIDIA features Arnaout’s work using deep learning to analyze medical images in cardiology

A recent Cell Systems paper describes a new approach to the development of biomarkers for therapeutic responses, utilizing both patient and cell line data.

Keiser’s “In Focus” piece advocates for stronger experimental controls in research featuring machine learning methods

Ted explains how researchers are using data to target precision treatments for cancer

Atul Butte helps to explain the potential of the 10,000 Immunomes Project

Bakar Institute faculty member honored by the American Medical Informatics Association

Rima Arnaout, Atul Butte, Katie Pollard, and Jimmie Ye represent the Bakar Institute Faculty who are part of these extraordinary newly-awarded programs

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science highlights the work of one of our joint Bakar Institute Fellows

Rima Arnaout, Hani Goodarzi, Steven Altschuler & Lani Wu’s selection for Catalyst Awards recognizes their work as promising early-stage research with commercial potential.

Sourav Bandyopadhyay recent work published in Nature Chem Biol uncovers a new strategy for promising cancer treatment

ICHS Executive Committee member, Andrej Sali, receives the honor of membership into the esteemed NAS in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research

Yale School of Medicine is celebrating its 100th anniversary of women at the school, and Majumdar (Yale alum) will speak at a seminar in advance of a Symposium honoring the occasion.

Jimmie Ye receives CZI support to create new computational tools and benchmark datasets in support of the Human Cell Atlas

Sourav Bandyopadhyay works to map the links between genes and chemotherapy treatments

The newly appointed CGO, Aleksandar Rajkovic, will help UCSF move closer to realizing the vision of Precision Medicine

ICHS investigators help unravel the mystery of this rare specimen using genetic analysis

Rima Arnaout’s team use deep learning to improve analysis of echocardiograms

Researchers like Dexter Hadley are using Blockchain to allow people to share their health records for research without losing control over them.

Katie Pollard is tapped to lead the new Institute at Gladstone where mathematicians, engineers, and biologists will work closely together

A recent paper from the lab of Jimmie Ye describes a method to decrease cost and improve experimental design for single cell sequencing at the population scale.

ICHS collaborative teams will work to make clinical data accessible for massive computational research projects.

Marina Sirota and Atul Butte lead efforts to provide access to data from many studies of premature birth.

The Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) in January 2018 will feature the latest in this rapidly evolving space

Dr. Hadley shares the stage with the President of Western Digital to talk about the their partnership and the future of data management at The Year Ahead Summit in Bloomberg headquarters.

ICHS investigative team uncovers new insights about the mechanisms of cancer dispersion

AMIA recognizes ICHS faculty member, Marina Sirota, with an early career honor.

Philanthropists Chan and Zuckerberg donate $10M to support Atul Butte’s work and the ICHS

Learn about UCSF’s growing Research Computing Capability.

ICHS Faculty, Bin Chen, publishes method of drug discovery using open-access datasets in the latest issue of Nature Communications

ICHS Director is honored by Korea’s Genome Medicine Institute with the 9th annual Ilchun Molecular Medicine Award

Michael Keiser’s project team is awarded the Cancer Center ‘Shark Tank’ top prize!

UCSF Faculty Tippi MacKenzie (Pediatric Surgery) and Marina Sirota (ICHS) receive a Burroughs Wellcome Fund award to study preterm birth using precision medicine strategies

Francis Collins writes in his NIH Director’s Blog about ICHS Faculty member Michael Fischbach’s work to identify the top 100 molecules in the human gut microbiome.

In this article, Dexter gives his perspective on how technology and data science are enabling new ways to deliver healthcare.

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, a leading researcher in health informatics and policy, will join the ICHS faculty along with Udi Manber, PhD, a world leader in digital data analytics, who will serve as ICHS’s first Technical Advisor.

This article on computational drug discovery features the work of two ICHS faculty, Brian Shoichet and Michael Keiser

Using computational methodologies to evaluate drug candidates, Chen and colleagues discover a promising new treatment.

In recognition of his groundbreaking bio-nanotechnology work using DNA origami, Shawn Douglas, is one of 102 researchers recently named as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Read more about how these long-time collaborators are using computational strategies to rapidly screen libraries of compounds for new therapeutic drugs

Michael’s innovative work on the human microbiome has earned him acknowledgement as an HHMI Faculty Scholar, and recipient of 2016 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award