Of Current Interest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UCSF Magazine highlights SPOKE Knowledge Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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