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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

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…

Data-driven fine-grained region discovery in the mouse brain with transformers

Source: Nature

October 14, 2025

BCHSI-Affiliated faculty Reza Abasi-Asl et al publish in Nature Communications where his lab introduces CellTransformer, an AI model that creates a fine-grained map of the brain with…

Monitoring atopic dermatitis using mobile-app based photography and surveys

Source: Journal of Dermatological Treatment

October 6, 2025

Remote monitoring of disease activity has the potential to improve research and clinical care in dermatology, but validated tools are lacking. Scientists at BCHSI/…

Spatial cell-type enrichment predicts mouse brain connectivity

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Cell

October 26, 2023

BCHSI faculty Ashish Raj lab publishes in Cell.

Atul Butte Wins Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics

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AMIA

October 9, 2023

The AMIA Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics acknowledges people who have influenced our thinking about informatics, especially improving health and health care in ways that are visio

UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Faculty Awarded $3.93M Team Science Grant to Develop Metabolic Imaging for Evaluating Brain Cancer

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UCSF Radiology

September 25, 2023

Researchers from UCSF’s Dept. of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging were recently awarded a $3.93 million Translational Team Science Award from the Department of Defense

Editorial: Artificial Intelligence—From Starting Pilots to Scalable Privilege

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JAMA

August 30, 2023

The medical world is now enamored with our newest potential helper, large language models (LLMs) and in particular chatbots, such as ChatGPT, a service offering from OpenAI.

NEJM AI podcast with Atul Butte: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove

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NEJM AI

August 30, 2023

In this episode, pioneering informatician Dr.

Evolution Pt.1: How Our Ancestry Is Revolutionizing Precision Medicine

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Radio Health Journal

August 22, 2023

BCHSI faculty Tony Capra weighs in on this podcast: "Science has come to learn that one treatment plan or medication won’t work the same for every patient.

2023 AI4ALL Summer Program Concludes

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BCHSI

August 15, 2023

28 talented high school students, most from California, participated in the 2023 virtual UCSF AI4ALL summer program and learned AI applications to Biomedicine with a focus on machine learning appro

Large Language Models Answer Medical Questions Accurately, but Can’t Match Clinicians’ Knowledge

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JAMANetwork

August 9, 2023

More than half of the Nature article’s 94 references are preprints, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a professor and institute director for computational health at the University of California, San Fr