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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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Robustness tests for biomedical foundation models should tailor to specifications
Source: NPJ Digital Medicine

Commentary from BCHSI Affiliated faculty Reza Abbasi-Asl: "As biomedical foundation models (BFMs) become more integrated into healthcare, how can we be sure they are safe, reliable, and consistent…

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A Decade of Impact: Celebrating Atul Butte & BCHSI@10
Source: UCSF BCHSI

August 19, 2025

 

More than 200 colleagues, collaborators, and community members gathered last week to celebrate “A…

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Big Data Begins to Crack the Case of Endometriosis
Source: UCSF

Led by Sirota Lab graduate student Umair Khan in collaboration with Marina Sirota and Linda Giudice. The study, which appeared in Cell…

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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.

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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.

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Exposure to autoimmune disorders is associated w/ increased Alzheimer’s disease risk in a multi-site EHR analysis
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Cell Reports
February 25, 2025

Latest publication in Cell by Grace Ramey, Marina Sirota, Alice Tang, et al.

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4 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Poised to Transform Medicine
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UCSF
February 7, 2025

Work featuring BCHSI affiliated faculty Reza Abbasi-Asl and Geoff Tison.

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Not All Clinical AI Monitoring Systems Are Created Equal: Review and Recommendations
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NEJM AI
January 23, 2025

Jean Feng,  Romain Pirracchio, et al publication.

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Assessing Large Language Models for Oncology Data Inference From Radiology Reports
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JCO Clinical Informatics
January 14, 2025

Julian Hong, Travis Zack, Atul Butte et al publish on the effectiveness of proprietary and open large language models (LLMs) in detecting disease presence, location, and treatment response in pancr

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CZI Grant Award for Improving Rare Disease Research
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BCHSI
January 10, 2025

Congratulations to Atul Butte and Madhumita Sushil on their recent grant award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Science in Society initiative).

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UCSF BCHSI Harvard Traumatic Brain Injury Comorbidity Project Published in JAMA
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JAMA Network
December 17, 2024

 Habibeh Ashouri Choshali, Gundolf Schenk, Sharat Israni collaborated with Harvard investigators on this longitudinal study.

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Podcast: Could AI Identify Alzheimer’s Risk Factors from Electronic Health Records?
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Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
December 11, 2024

Marina Sirota and Alice Tang join the podcast to share their research on how AI could be used to predict one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease based on their electronic health records.