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2026 Butte Student Award Announcement
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BCHSI

Introducing The Atul Butte Innovation in Biomedical Data Science Student Award in honor of the Bakar Institute's founding Director, Dr. Atul Butte. Applications are now open for this award, established to honor excellence in student projects that demonstrate innovation in biomedical research utilizing data science-driven approaches, including AI. Creative or novel use of these approaches will be a plus.

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Alice Tang Selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 - Science
Source: Forbes

Alice Tang is using AI computational tools to understand and diagnose complex diseases like Alzheimer's...

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

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…

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Congratulations 2026 FAMIA Inductees
Source: AMIA

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

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Big Little Lives
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UCSF Magazine
January 20, 2023

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

Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
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JAMA
November 1, 2022

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

Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant
Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant
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UCSF School of Medicine
October 31, 2022

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

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2 BCHSI Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2022
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UCSF
October 17, 2022

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

Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease
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NIA NIH
September 22, 2022

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

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Joint Computational Health PhD Program Opens Applications Today
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UC Berkeley
September 15, 2022

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

UCSF AI4ALL Summer 2022 Wraps Up with Final Symposium
UCSF AI4ALL Summer 2022 Wraps Up with Final Symposium
Source:
BCHSI
September 8, 2022

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

De-ID Clinical Notes Scale Project Wins Golden Sautter Award
De-ID Clinical Notes Scale Project Wins Golden Sautter Award
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UC Office of the President
August 17, 2022

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

March of Dimes Launches New Data-Focused Prematurity Research Center at UCSF
March of Dimes Launches New Data-Focused Prematurity Research Center at UCSF
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March of Dimes
June 23, 2022

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

New Biomarker Classifications May Improve Treatment for High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients
New Biomarker Classifications May Improve Treatment for High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients
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UCSF
June 3, 2022

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


 

Towards Continual Monitoring & Updating AI algorithms in Healthcare
Towards Continual Monitoring & Updating AI algorithms in Healthcare
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Nature
May 31, 2022

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


 

Two Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Demonstration Projects Awarded
Two Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Demonstration Projects Awarded
Source:
BCHSI
May 31, 2022

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