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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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Congratulations 2026 FAMIA Inductees
Source: AMIA

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

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BCHSI / UCSF Datasets Selected to be Integrated into NAIRR Pilot
Source: UCSF BCHSI

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…

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

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…

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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
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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
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BCHSI
May 31, 2022

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

UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies
UCSF Awarded $67.5 Million to Develop New Antiviral Therapies
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UCSF
May 18, 2022

BCHSI Faculty, Andrej Sali, Brian Shoichet, Michael Keiser, are investigators for this QBI Coronavirus Research Group.


 

Informations Commons Day at UCSF
Informations Commons Day at UCSF
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BCHSI
April 28, 2022

As researchers who depend on data, join us on Monday, May 9 to learn how to deepen your research inquiry.

UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS
UCSF Researchers Use Gene Expression Data to Map Cell Types in the CNS
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BCHSI
April 12, 2022

Ashish Raj co-led the development of a computational pipeline, Matrix Inversion and Subset Selection.