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S.F. composers meld sound with science for new perspective on Alzheimer’s

S.F. composers meld sound with science for new perspective on Alzheimer's
Source: CBS News
February 24, 2023

Srikantan Nagarajan, UCSF BCHSI faculty / neuroscientist, provided data to young composers.

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UCSF, Stanford researchers predict newborn health outcomes using AI, EHR data

UCSF, Stanford researchers predict newborn health outcomes using AI, EHR data
Source: Becker's Healthcare
February 16, 2023

Marina Sirota, UCSF BCHSI and Stanford collaborators publish in Science Translational Medicine.

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High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Source: UCSF
January 31, 2023

Atul Butte is named 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Big Little Lives

Marina Sirota, PhD
Source: UCSF Magazine
Winter 2023

Bakar faculty Marina Sirota et al microbiome work highlighted in the context of pregnancy outcomes.

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Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Graph of travel time to get to abortion by state
Source: JAMA
November 1, 2022

Bakar faculty, senior author Yulin Hswen publishes on abortion access post: Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Decision.

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Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant

Photo of Hani Goodarzi
Source: UCSF SOM
October 31, 2022

Bakar faculty Hani Goodarzi receives the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.

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2 BCHSI Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2022

Photo of Ida Sims and Katie Pollard
Source: UCSF
October 17, 2022

Two Bakar Faculty – Ida Sim and Katie Pollard are among the 3 elected.

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Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease
Source: NIA NIH
September 22, 2022

The NIA NIH highlighted work by BCHSI faculty lead Alice Tang, Sirota Lab and Information Commons team.

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Joint Computational Health PhD Program Opens Applications Today

Source: UC Berkeley
September 15, 2022

Program is administered in partnership with the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at Berkeley and UCSF BCHSI.

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UCSF AI4ALL Summer 2022 Wraps Up with Final Symposium

UCSF AI4ALL Summer 2022 Wraps Up with Final Symposium
Source: BCHSI
September 8, 2022

29 talented high school students learned about AI applications in biomedicine.

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De-ID Clinical Notes Scale Project Wins Golden Sautter Award

De-ID Clinical Notes Scale Project Wins Golden Sautter Award
Source: UCOP
August 17, 2022

BCHSI faculty gain highest UC Tech award honor for Deidentifying Clinical Notes at Scale.

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March of Dimes Launches New Data-Focused Prematurity Research Center at UCSF

March of Dimes Launches New Data-Focused Prematurity Research Center at UCSF
Source: March of Dimes
June 23, 2022

BCHSI faculty Marina Sirota et al will focus on data sharing, computational drug discovery, leveraging real world data to help prevent preterm birth.

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New Biomarker Classifications May Improve Treatment for High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients

New Biomarker Classifications May Improve Treatment for High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients
Source: UCSF
June 3, 2022

BCHSI faculty Laura van’t Veer & team findings will guide treatment prioritization.

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Two Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Demonstration Projects Awarded

Two Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Demonstration Projects Awarded
Source: Bakar Institute
May 31, 2022

BCHSI, CTSI and UC Health award two AI/Machine Learning Demo Pilot projects.

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Towards Continual Monitoring & Updating AI algorithms in Healthcare

Towards Continual Monitoring & Updating AI algorithms in Healthcare
Source: Nature
May 31, 2022

Jean Feng, Romain Pirracchio, et al published on Quality Improvement for Clinical AI.

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UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies

UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies
Source: UCSF
May 18, 2022

BCHSI Faculty, Andrej Sali, Brian Shoichet, Michael Keiser, are investigators for this QBI Coronavirus Research Group.

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Informations Commons Day at UCSF

UCSF Information Commons Day
Source: Bakar Institute
April 28, 2022

As researchers who depend on data, join us on Monday, May 9 to learn how to deepen your research inquiry.

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UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS

UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS
Source: Bakar Institute
April 12, 2022

Ashish Raj co-led the development of a computational pipeline, Matrix Inversion and Subset Selection.

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Single-Cell Seq Study Uncovers Blood Cell Type Features for Lupus

Single-Cell Seq Study Uncovers Blood Cell Type Features for Lupus
Source: Science
April 8, 2022

Jimmie Ye, et al, published in Science on how they deployed mux-seq to profile 1.2M immune cells for lupus.

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A Biomedical Open Knowledge Network Harnesses the Power of AI

A biomedical open knowledge network harnesses the power of AI
Source: AI Magazine
March 31, 2022

Sharat Israni, et al and collaborators publish on knowledge networks identified by NSC as a core component of AI frameworks.

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End-to-End Information Commons now on Wynton

IC Wynton
Source: Bakar Institute
December 20, 2021

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

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Building the Brains of Precision Medicine

Source: UCSF
December 16, 2021

UCSF Magazine highlights SPOKE Knowledge Network

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Atul Butte Testifies before Congress

Atul Butte Congressional Testimony
Source: Bakar Institute
December 8, 2021

Butte articulated priorities to Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health “Future of Biomedicine” Hearing.

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An Entirely New Approach to Drug Discovery for AD

An Entirely New Approach to Drug Discovery for AD
Source: Bakar Institute
November 17, 2021

UCSF BCHSI data scientist’s research draws attention to an entirely new approach to drug discovery for Alzheimer’s.

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Precision Medicine to Address Prostate Cancer in Veterans

Franklin Huang, MD, PhD
Source: Bakar Institute
November 16, 2021

Franklin Huang: Providing precision oncology solutions for veterans using data science and focusing on disparities.

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Could an antidepressant prevent more COVID deaths?

Could an antidepressant prevent more COVID deaths?
Source: UCSF
November 15, 2021

A UCSF-Stanford data analysis shows a strong association between taking SSRIs and surviving the virus.

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Computational Precision Health Program Funded by $50M Gift Launches

Ida Sim, MD, PhD
Source: UCSF
October 20, 2021

Ida Sim, MD, PhD and new UCSF program faculty will be affiliated with the BCHSI.

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Disparities Research in Chronic Diseases with $22.5M Grant

Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPh and William Brown III, PhD, DrPH
Source: UCSF
October 18, 2021

Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPh, co-director, and William Brown III, PhD, DrPH as associate unit director.

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Can an Already Approved Drug Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?

Marina Sirota, PhD
Source: Gladstone Institutes
October 11, 2021

Marina Sirota, PhD (co-senior author) published a study using computation to pinpoint an existing drug that may prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.

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AI Algorithm Matches Cardiologists’ Expertise, Explaining Its Decisions

Source: UCSF
August 26, 2021

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

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UCSF SPOKE featured at NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo

Source: Bakar Institute
July 6, 2021

Learn about UCSF’s knowledge network project and other innovative work supported by NSF Convergence Accelerator.

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Fetal Heart Defect Detection Improved by Using Machine Learning

Source: UCSF
May 27, 2021

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

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AIMBE honors two Bakar Faculty

AIMBE
Source: Bakar Institute
March 19, 2021

Katie Pollard and Duan Xu are inducted into the prestigious American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.

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Introducing the enhanced March of Dimes database for preterm birth research

Source: Bakar Institute
November 24, 2020

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

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UCSF Team Presents Ethical Framework for Effective COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Source: UCSF
October 19, 2020

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

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AI4All Summer Program

AI4ALL
Source: Grace Holmes
September 21, 2020

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.

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BCHSI faculty develops COVIDseeker

Source: UCSF
September 15, 2020

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

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NSF Funds SPOKE Knowledge Network Phase Two

Source: UCSF Precision Medicine
September 3, 2020

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.

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Geoff Tison is developing a digital biomarker for diabetes

Source: UCSF
August 17, 2020

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

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Ushizima develops image recognition algorithms to diagnose COVID-19

Daniela Ushizima develops image recognition algorithms to diagnose COVID-19
Source: BERKELEY LAB COMPUTING SCIENCES
June 1, 2020

Dani Ushizima explores algorithms and a data analysis pipeline to help accurately distinguish COVID-19 abnormalities in CT scans and chest X-rays.

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UCSF and AWS Collaboration

UCSF & AWS Collaboration
Source: Bakar Institute
May 12, 2020

Facilitated by BCHSI, AWS connected with the laboratory of Charles Chiu to enable two COVID-19 projects.

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Bakar’s Response to COVID-19

BCHSI Work on COVID-19
Source: BAKAR INSTITUTE
APRIL 8, 2020

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

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UC Health Data Initiative Launches Daily Updates on COVID-19 Tests

Source: University of California
April 6, 2020

UC Health will distribute daily updates about SARS-CoV-2 testing volume, the # of positive tests & age distribution of confirmed cases gathered from its 5 medical centers.

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Bakar Institute Develops COVID-19 County Tracker App

COVID-19 County Tracker
Source: Bakar Institute
APRIL 3, 2020

Butte lab developed a COVID-19 County Tracker app to track cases nationwide. It features plots of total cases by states and county, with interactive exploration.

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Acid Reflux Drug Is a Surprising Candidate to Curb Preterm Birth

Acid Reflux Drug Is a Surprising Candidate to Curb Preterm Birth
Source: UCSF
February 13, 2020

Marina Sirota uses a computational study to identify a dozen of other drugs to reduce inflammation.

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BCHSI Faculty Named on Forbes’ 30 under 30

Forbes' 30 Under 30
Source: UCSF
DECEMBER 10, 2019

Vijay Ramani has been named to Forbes magazine’s annual 30 Under 30 list of rising stars in healthcare.

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Unprecedented Partnership to Advance Data in Biomedicine

Baranzani and Israni lead the NSF Award
Source: UCSF Precision Medicine
November 7, 2019

Sergio Baranzini and Sharat Israni will lead the NSF award & collaborate with Google, Lawrence Livermore Library, and Institute Systems for Biology.

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Data Science Health Innovation Fellows announced

Data Science Health Innovation Fellows
Source: Bakar Institute
November 4, 2019

BCHSI and BIDS welcome the 2019 Data Science Health Innovation Fellows.

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Julia Adler-Milstein Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019

Julia Adler-Milstein Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019
Source: UCSF
October 21, 2019

Four UCSF faculty members are among the 100 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine this year, including BCHSI affiliate faculty Julia Adler-Milstein.

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Brain Maps Allow Individualized Predictions of FTD Progression

Brain Maps Allow Individualized Predictions of FTD Progression
Source: UCSF
October 14, 2019

Seeley and colleagues used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia.

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UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging

UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging
Source: UCSF
October 11, 2019

Majumdar will run the Center for Intelligent Imaging’s operations to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to radiology.

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FDA approves Artificial Intelligence Algorithm That Reads Chest X-Rays

FDA approves Artificial Intelligence Algorithm That Reads Chest X-Rays
Source: UCSF
September 12, 2019

Callcut led the product development of the new AI screening tool, known as Critical Care Suite, which is being licensed by UCSF Innovation Venture to GE Healthcare.

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Genetic Test Found a Life-Saving Therapy for an Infant’s Rare Cancer

Genetic Test Found a Life-Saving Therapy for an Infant's Rare Cancer
Source: UCSF
September 11, 2019

Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, explains how the UCSF500 test can identify inherited predispositions to cancer and help patients design prevention and surveillance strategies.

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Mobile Devices and Health

Mobile Devices and Health
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
September 5, 2019

UCSF, Cornell Tech, Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project are collaborating to integrate EHR data to Android smartphones.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake

Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
Source: UCSF
August 12, 2019

Study suggests tau tangles, not amyloid plaques, drive daytime napping that precedes dementia.

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AI For All — Data-Driven Summer Program Energizes a New Generation

AI For All — Data-Driven Summer Program Energizes a New Generation
Source: UCSF Precision Medicine
August 14, 2019

BCHSI faculty Marina Sirota led the first cohort of the AI4All program, focused on promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the field of AI in biomedicine.

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University of California announces data science collaboration with Janssen

UC & Janssen Collaboration
Source: University of California
June 28, 2019

New fellowship program from UCSF’s BCHSI, UC Berkeley’s BIDS, and Janssen Research & Development to recruit data scientists for innovative, high-impact, data-driven healthcare research

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New Collaboration To Advance Patient Safety In The Digital Era

New Collaboration To Advance Patient Safety In The Digital Era
Source: CISION PR Newswire
May 7, 2019

Julia Adler-Milstein will lead the new partnership between UCSF and The Doctor’s Company to make substantive advances in patient safety and digital health.

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Rima Arnaout’s work featured at GTC 2019

Source: NVIDIA
March 27, 2019

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

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Atul Butte Inducted Into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Source: UCSF Precision Medicine
March 25, 2019

BCHSI’s Director has been inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIMBE in recognition of his contributions to creating a precision medicine roadmap with open access data

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Bandyopadhyay Lab uses multi-modal network model to improve cancer pharmacogenomics

Source: Cell Systems
November 7, 2018

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

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Michael Keiser authors a cover piece for ACS Chemical Biology

Source: ACS Chem Biol
October 19, 2018

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

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Ted Goldstein talks cancer at TEDx

Source: TEDx
October 9, 2018

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

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Big Data Gives a Boost to Immunology Research and Potentially, Treatments

Source: KQED
October 25, 2018

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

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Julia Adler-Milstein receives award from AMIA

Source: Bakar Institute
October 15, 2018

Bakar Institute faculty member honored by the American Medical Informatics Association

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Several Bakar Institute faculty among the selected CZ Biohub Intercampus Research Programs

Source: Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
September 26, 2018

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

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Mapping the human brain to combat Alzheimer’s

Source: BIDS
July 16, 2018

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

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Four Bakar Institute faculty members receive Catalyst Awards

Source: UCSF Catalyst Program
June 19, 2018

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

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Combination Therapy May Revive Prospects for ‘Embattled’ Breast Cancer Drugs

Source: UCSF
June 25, 2018

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

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Andrej Sali elected to National Academy of Sciences

Andre Sali
Source: UCSF
May 2, 2018

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

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Sharmila Majumdar helps celebrate 100 years of women at Yale School of Medicine

Source: Yale School of Medicine
April 11, 2018

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.

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CZI Funds Draft Human Immune Census

Source: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
April 19, 2018

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

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Gene Mapping Lays Groundwork for Precision Chemotherapy

Source: UCSF
April 17, 2018

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

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UCSF Names First-Ever Chief Genomics Officer

Aleksandar Rajkovicpic
Source: UCSF
April 12, 2018

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

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Once-Mysterious ‘Atacama Skeleton’ Illuminates Genetics of Bone Disease

Source: UCSF
March 22, 2018

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

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AI is Quicker, More Effective Than Humans in Analyzing Heart Scans

Source: UCSF
March 21, 2018

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

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AI researchers embrace Bitcoin technology to share medical data

Source: Nature
March 9, 2018

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

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Gladstone launches new Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology

Katherine S. Pollard
Source: Julie Langelier / Gladstone News
February 23, 2018

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

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Improved method for population-scale single cell sequencing

Source: Nature Biotechnology
December 12, 2017

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.

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Foundation awards transformative software development at UCSF

Source: ICHS
December 12, 2017

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

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New Data Resource for Preterm Birth Research

Source: ICHS
December 12, 2017

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

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2018 PMWC features several ICHS affiliates

Source: UCSF
December 15, 2017

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

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Dexter Hadley Featured at Bloomberg’s The Year Ahead Summit

Source: ICHS
Nov 8, 2017

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.

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Big Data Shows How Cancer Interacts with Its Surroundings

Source: UCSF
October 20, 2017

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

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Marina Sirota receives 2017 AMIA New Investigator Award

Marina Sirota
Source: ICHS
October 18, 2017

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

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ICHS Director named Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor

Source: SF Chronicle
July 28, 2017

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

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Wynton is Here!

Source: ICHS
September 7, 2017

Learn about UCSF’s growing Research Computing Capability.

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Bin Chen uses Big Data analytics for drug discovery

Source: UCSF
July 13, 2017

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

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Atul Butte receives 2017 Ilchun Molecular Medicine Award

Source: Genome Medicine Institute
July 12, 2017

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

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Artificial Intelligence Melanoma Detector Wins Cancer Center Impact Grant

Source: UCSF
June 20, 2017

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

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A Precision Medicine approach to study pre-term birth

Source: ICHS
June 2, 2017

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

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NIH Director features Michael Fischbach

Source: NIH
May 18, 2017

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.

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ICHS Faculty, Dexter Hadley, explains how he uses big data to practice medicine

Source: Readwrite
May 3, 2017

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

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ICHS Welcomes Two New Members to the UCSF Dept. of Medicine: Julia Adler-Milstein & Udi Manber

Source: Robert M. Wachter, MD, Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine
May 2, 2017

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.

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How Computers are Searching for Drugs of the Future

Source: UCSF
April 11, 2017

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

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ICHS Faculty, Bin Chen, identifies promising drug candidate to treat liver cancer

Source: UCSF
March 30, 2017

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

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BIDS-ICHS Data Science Fellowship, UC Berkeley/UCSF

Source: Berkeley Institute for Data Science
March 8, 2017

ICHS has joined with UC Berkeley’s Institute for Data Science (BIDS) to offer a pair of fellowships, one from each campus, to strengthen the connection between the two campuses in the realm of data science. Graduate students and Postdocs may apply by April 1, 2017; and Fellowships begin in the Fall.

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ICHS Faculty, Shawn Douglas, receives Presidential Early Career Award

Source: UCSF
January 20, 2017

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).

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ICHS Faculty, Steven Altshculer & Lani Wu, are developing new methods for drug discovery

Source: UCSF
January 4, 2017

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

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ICHS Faculty, Michael Fischbach, recognized by NIH & HHMI

Source: ICHS
October 6, 2016

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

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