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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

UCSF CoreHPC Accelerates UCSF-GPT Training from Eight-10 Months to Under 11 Hours

Source: UCSF ARS

November 14, 2025

BCHSI researcher Rohit Vashisht, PhD, successfully trained UCSF-GPT–a 1.3 billion-parameter clinical foundation base model–in under 11 hours using UCSF’s CoreHPC infrastructure. The same process…

Congratulations 2026 FAMIA Inductees

Source: AMIA

November 5, 2025

Congratulations to Julian Hong on 2026 FAMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program!

BCHSI / UCSF Datasets Selected to be Integrated into NAIRR Pilot

Source: UCSF BCHSI

October 16, 2025

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced two major advancements in America's AI infrastructure: the launch of the Integrated Data Systems and Services (NSF IDSS) program to build out…

Genetic Discovery Reveals Who Can Benefit from Preterm Birth Therapy

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UCSF

January 30, 2024

UCSF researchers call for precision-medicine approach that could identify targets for novel treatments.

“Scalable Privilege”—How AI Could Turn Data From the Best Medical Systems Into Better Care for All

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JAMA

January 26, 2024

This conversation is part of a series of interviews in which JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and expert guests explore issues surrounding the rapidly evolving i

Topic modeling on clinical social work notes for exploring social determinants of health factors

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JAMIA Open

January 23, 2024

Latest publication from Butte lab

Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis

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Stanford

December 27, 2023

In collaboration with UCSF's Hani Goodarzi, also an incoming Arc Institute Core Investigator, and Laura Van’t Veer.

March of Dimes Global Crowdsourcing Effort Yields Pair of Predictive Models for Preterm Birth

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March of Dimes

December 21, 2023

Led by Marina Sirota

Geoff Tison Receive's NIH Director's New Innovator Award

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Common Fund

December 20, 2023

Project Title: A Physiologically-Focused Approach to Training Multi-Modal

Berkeley launches Agile Metabolic Health and open platforms initiative

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UCB

December 18, 2023

Agile Metabolic Health aims to revolutionize the patient experience for millions of people with diabetes, catalyzing a new frontier of open-source, data-driven personalized healthcare.

UCSF Entering 2024 ‘Amazingly Positioned’ to Lead in Health Care AI Revolution

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UCSF

December 14, 2023

It is clear the next year will be a pivotal one for UCSF’s place in the growth and application of artificial intelligence in health care.

Capra Labs study links DNA inherited from our extinct cousins to a propensity for being early risers

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Genome Biology and Evolution

December 14, 2023

BCHSI faculty Tony Capra et al study 'Archaic Introgression Shaped Human Circadian Traits' makes waves in NY Times, WSJ, news media

$4M NIH Grant Will Teach Artificial Intelligence to Spot Cavities

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UCSF

December 6, 2023

Learners and faculty will be trained to conduct clinical research, prepping them to shape the field of dental care as innovations like AI come online.