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Remembering Atul Butte, Inaugural Director of Bakar Institute at UCSF
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UCSF BCHSI

In Loving Memory of Atul Butte, 1969-2025

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Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s?
Source: UCSF

BCHSI faculty Ashish Raj, et al. publish in Brain - create "Google Maps” for how tau moves in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients.

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UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55
Source: UCSF

A transformational figure, he bridged the worlds of science and technology, helping to usher in the era of precision medicine.

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Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health
Source: UC Berkeley CDSS

The Frontiers of Computational Health conference gathered more than 150 academic and industry researchers, staff and students from disciplines across varied health specialties, computer science,…

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Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s?
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UCSF
July 10, 2025

BCHSI faculty Ashish Raj, et al. publish in Brain - create "Google Maps” for how tau moves in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients.

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UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55
Source:
UCSF
June 30, 2025

A transformational figure, he bridged the worlds of science and technology, helping to usher in the era of precision medicine.

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Remembering Atul Butte, Inaugural Director of Bakar Institute at UCSF
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UCSF BCHSI
June 17, 2025

In Loving Memory of Atul Butte, 1969-2025

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UC awards $18 million to scale up the ambition and impact of AI in science
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UCOP
May 20, 2025

'AI-Driven Genomics at Scale: from Sequence to Function to Therapeutics' research has been awarded to Jimmie Ye to use LBNL's supercomputers to gain new understandings of how certain proteins on th

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Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health
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UC Berkeley CDSS
May 6, 2025

The Frontiers of Computational Health conference gathered more than 150 academic and industry researchers, staff and students from disciplines across varied health specialties, computer science, en

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Physician and Large Language Model–Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries
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JAMA Internal Medicine
May 5, 2025

Chris Williams, Ben Rosner, et al publish in JAMA Internal Medicine - the study evaluated the quality and safety of discharge summary narratives generated by a large language model (GPT-4

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UCSF Advances AI in Research Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
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UCSF School of Medicine
May 2, 2025

Collaboration is a driving force behind UCSF’s research mission – uniting experts across disciplines, institutions, and sectors to solve complex problems.

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Atul Butte Receives High Honor for Exceptional Career
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UCSF
April 30, 2025

Pioneering bioinformatics expert and BCHSI founding director Atul Butte is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Patterns in Symptoms Preceding Acute Care in Patients With Cancer
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JAMA Open Network
April 24, 2025

From Hong Lab - led by Chichi Chang, the team used natural language processing to evaluate symptoms experienced by >28k patients with cancer prior to emergency visits and hospitalizations.

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UCSF creates a powerhouse AI system that boosts oncology care
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Health IT News
April 17, 2025

BCHSI affiliated faculty member Travis Zack shares how the implementation of AI in oncology workflows has led to measurable improvements in efficiency and decision making in oncology.

Atul Butte 10 Years at UCSF
Celebrating BCHSI's Inaugural Director Atul Butte - the Institute's 10 Year Anniversary!
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UCSF BCHSI
April 1, 2025

Time flies!

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Searching for the cellular underpinnings of the selective vulnerability to tauopathic insults in Alzheimer’s disease
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Nature Communications Biology
March 11, 2025

Justin Torok, Pedro Maia, Anand Chaitaili and Ashish Raj recent publish in Nature Communication Biology.