UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

Large Language Models in Population Oncology: A Contemporary Review on the Use of Large Language Models to Support Data Collection, Aggregation, and Analysis in Cancer Care and Research |
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Join our special Oct. UCSF AI Seminar Series, 10/31! Costumes Encouraged/Refreshments served (or Zoom)! We'll honor Atul Butte's enduring legacy showcasing projects built on the computational ecosystem he created @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @julianhong.bsky.social calendar.ucsf.edu/event/semina...

AI is transforming healthcare fast—but how do we ensure it actually improves diagnosis? UCSF CODEX brought together 30 healthcare leaders to develop practical metrics for measuring AI's impact on diagnostic excellence. Full story: codex.ucsf.edu/news/healthc...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Opioid Documents in Action: Examining Opioid Marketing to Veterans. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Christopher K. Haddock and Andrew Kolodny for a Q&A about their research team's recently published article, "Imagine the Possibilities Pain Coalition and Opioid Marketing to Veterans: Lessons for...

It's #ArchivesMonth!👏 🎉 Join us TODAY to learn how our #Opioid #Archives have been used to examine opioid marketing to veterans. Click to register: jhjhm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@pinheirochagas.bsky.social et al publish their first AI-Human paper! Generated using AI Scientific Writer "Redefining Language & Neurodegeneration Through PPAClinical Phenotypes, Network Vulnerability & Global Research Directions" bakarinstitute.ucsf.edu/news/ai-huma... @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Save the date! 📅 Our annual symposium is April 13, 2026, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. We are honored to welcome our keynote speaker, Marina Sirota, PhD, @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social. Visit lnkd.in/giui77Ej for details.
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Join us Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 10am @gladstoneinst.bsky.social in person or online. Computational Cancer Community (C3) "Decoding Human Cell Architecture – from Spatial Proteomics to Cell Modeling" w/ special guest Emma Lundberg, PhD calendar.ucsf.edu/event/comput...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in our UCSF lab to work collaboratively on functional genomics methods for brain tumor biology and therapeutics development! opportunities.ucsf.edu/content/post...

How to assess AI fit and function in health, and how does context change the calculus? Hear from Jean Feng @irenetrampoline.bsky.social and Hugo Campos Jr (and others on the CPH YouTube channel). @ajh.bsky.social moderates. buff.ly/YBTvBJD @ucsfdocit.bsky.social

We were honored to share our 10 yr anniversary “A Decade of Impact: Celebrating @atulbutte.bsky.social & BCHSI@10” w/ 200+ people, faculty & community. Read our 10 Yr Report & Watch the recording! bakarinstitute.ucsf.edu/news/decade-... @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social
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We look forward to seeing you at our 10 year anniversary symposium Tues., August 19th ""A Decade of Impact: Celebrating @atulbutte.bsky.social & BCHSI@10." Full agenda is up! calendar.ucsf.edu/event/a-deca... @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social

Docs hope UCSF-Stanford hub can set ‘example’ Donor, schools pledge $200 million effort.

For @julianhong.bsky.social the funding opens up opportunities to explore how AI can help personalize cancer treatments - improve data sharing so that patients can more easily understand health history, build out the broader cancer knowledge database... www.sfexaminer.com/news/health/...

Cell-type-directed network-correcting combination therapy for Alzheimer’s disease A multi-cell-type drug discovery strategy targeting dysregulated gene networks in neurons and glia identified letrozole and irinotecan as a combination therapy that significantly improved memory and r...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Cell-type-directed network-correcting combination therapy for Alzheimer’s disease" from the Huang Lab at Gladstone and @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social.

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Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice In efforts to beat Alzheimer's disease, researchers are looking at existing drugs that could tackle the condition, and a new study identifies two promising candidates that are currently used to treat…

In efforts to beat Alzheimer's disease, researchers are looking at existing drugs that could tackle the condition. A new study from Gladstone and UCSF identifies two promising candidates that are currently used to treat cancer.

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Congratulations to @julianhong.bsky.social & team for Project IMPACT - one of the first to be awarded by the new Weill Cancer Hub West! To build artificial intelligence systems that integrate clinical and biological data for precise, personalized cancer treatments @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Do These Two Cancer Drugs Have What It Takes to Beat Alzheimer’s? Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its sympt...

Do These Two Cancer Drugs Have What It Takes to Beat Alzheimer’s? - Marina Sirota, Yadong Huang @gladstoneinst.bsky.social publish in @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Selective vulnerability and resilience to Alzheimer's disease tauopathy as a function of genes and the connectome Anand et al. show that Alzheimer's disease risk genes confer vulnerability or resilience to tau pathology through both network-dependent and independent me

Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s? See
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RUN TIBURON is a fundraiser for UCSFʻs Survivorship and Wellness Health services

We are taking a moment to celebrate the courage of our @ucsfhealth.bsky.social patients, doctors, nurses, researchers, caretakers, friends, and families by participating in the Courage Over Cancer 5K & 10K Run/Walk in beautiful Tiburon! September 7th: calendar.ucsf.edu/event/courag...

Multimodal AI Shows No Evidence of Bias in Prostate Cancer Study A new study published in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics tackles a critical challenge in cancer diagnostics: ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) performs equitably across racially diverse patie...

New study led by Mack Roach III, MD @ucsfradonc.bsky.social tackles a critical challenge in cancer diagnostics: ensuring that AI performs equitably in prognosis for #ProstateCancer across racially diverse patient populations. www.itnonline.com/article/mult...

Looking for a motivated postdoc to work at the intersection of multimodal foundation models and medicine! If you're excited about exploring real-world data and transforming clinical care, please apply! @ucsfdocit.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Featuring Michael Nercessian, Computational Precision Health PhD student Mirai-1.5: Assessing Breast Cancer Risk From Any Mammogram

#Breast #cancer screening reduces mortality, but significant controversy exists over optimal screening guidelines. CPH #PhD student, Michael Nercessian, build on Dr. Adam Yala & colleagues' Mirai, a state of the art risk #prediction model. #AI #ML buff.ly/rejSXij

UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55 Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and cli...

The UCSF community mourns the passing of Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a bold thinker, inspiring mentor and founding director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

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Congratulations to CPH's @amalaa@bsky.social, winner of a Google Research Scholar award for groundbreaking work on use of AI and high-throughput proteomics to predict treatment impact for populations often excluded from clinical trials. @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social

Ft. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social BCHSI Associate Director William Brown (00:45sec) - Final ride from SF to LA for AIDS/LifeCycle, but the fight to end HIV/AIDS continues viahttps://abc7.com/post/final-ride-sf-la-aidslifecycle-fight-end-hivaids-continues/16708251/

Featuring Alice Tang, PhD Unlocking the Mysteries of Dementia: How Generative AI Helps Decode Patient Symptoms

It's hard to tell different types of #dementia apart, so we need better ways to describe heterogeneity in #symptoms. Using #AI from #clinical notes, we can find distinct patterns that can help diagnosis & treatment. Dr. Alice Tang tells us more! ‪@ucsf-bcshi.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/Gs5nuP2

@draguilera.bsky.social from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social School of Social Welfare brings attention to #health #equity in the digital & computational ecosystem when it comes to physical activity and other related #health conditions. #spanish #personalized #AI4health
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Computational Cancer Community (C3) Monthly Meeting

Join the Cancer Computational Community (C3) Lightning talks on Mon., 6/9, 10am! Hear from Labs of @ShengMPLab Wan-Jin Yeo, @chriswzou @sjohnliu.bsky.social, @McManus_Lab, Wei, Olshen calendar.ucsf.edu/event/comput... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social

Peter Washington, PhD Computation in Consumer Digital Health: Challenges and Opportunities. CPH Seminar on March 18, 2025.

ICYMI--Prof. Peter Washington talks computation and consumer digital health in the CPH seminar series. Full video on our YouTube channel here. buff.ly/UJpWxcU @UCSFDocIT.bsky,social #digitalhealth #AI4Good #autism #SUD

Considerations in Translating AI to Improve Care The potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on personalized medicine, clinical decision support, clinical workflow optimization, and health care management has attracted the attention of pati...

Considerations in Translating AI to Improve Care - Commentary/Oncology by @julianhong.bsky.social Divneet Mandair; Marianna Elia
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UC awards $18 million to scale up the ambition and impact of AI in science Together with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the University of California is funding research to develop new AI approaches in genomics, quantum materials discovery and geothermal ene...

Congrats @yimmieg.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov! UC awards $18 million to scale up the ambition and impact of AI in science @ucnewsroom.bsky.social www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-awar...