The Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology invites you to its symposium on 4/22 & explore the systems biology approach to understanding cancer progression and treatment response with a theme of computational methods in single-cell and spatial analysis.
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Rob Tibshirani honored with COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship
The award is a very high recognition of meritorious achievement and scholarship in statistical science.
community.amstat.org/copss/awards/c…

Olivier Gevaert and team have developed a biomedical model inspired by DALL-E, using RNA expression profiles to generate synthetic digital pathology images across several cancer tissues. You can try the model here: lnkd.in/egWGGDYJ. 
nature.com/articles/s4155…

Leaders of Stanford Medicine discuss artificial intelligence in health and medicine; its usefulness in research, education and patient care; and how to responsibly integrate the technology. Read it here: med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

The ClinGen Pharmacogenomics Working Group: Developing frameworks for evaluating pharmacogenomic gene validity and actionability
 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Generating a framework for curating mechanism of disease in monogenic conditions
Read it here: gimopen.org/article/S2949-…

DBDS' Nigam Shah shares his early experiences with AI, how it has evolved, and how AI and web applications like ChatGPT have changed the landscape of how AI is being used on Clinical Changemakers podcast.
Listen here: clinicalchangemakers.com/p/ep11-explori…

DBDS PhD student Yusuf Roohani’s work on universal cell embeddings was featured in a New York Times in 'A.I. is learning what it means to be alive.'
Congratulations, Yusuf!
nytimes.com/2024/03/10/sci…

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood co-supervises AI research that gives unprecedented insight into heart genetics and structure by using AI to understand the genetic underpinning of the heart’s left ventricle.

Read the story here: 
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DBDS' Minh Nguyen, Tiffany Eulalio & Ben Marafino published 'Thick Data Analytics (TDA): An Iterative and Inductive Framework for Algorithmic Improvement' in The American Statistician
Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A new $5 million grant from the Warren Alpert Foundation was recently awarded to the DBDS and will fund the training of 15 graduate scholars to enhance training and retention of scholars in computational biology/artificial intelligence.
Read it here: dbds.stanford.edu/five-million-w…

Manisha Desai op-ed in San Francisco Chronicle: 'AI is transforming medicine, but there’s also too much unfounded hype.'
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DBDS' Sylvia Plevritis and Nigam Shah are panelists for State of AI in Health and Medicine, 3/18
Join StanfordMed LIVE for this special panel discussion from 12-1 p.m. at 500P Assembly Hall (virtual option available).
dbds.stanford.edu/2024/plevtriti…

DBDS' Barbara Engelhardt, a senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes, was elected as a fellow to the International Society for Computational Biology, joining 14 other scientists from around the world who earn the distinction this year.
Read it here: gladstone.org/news/barbara-e…

DBDS' Roxana Daneshjou was selected as 2024 recipient of the American Academy of Dermatology Young Investigator Award for her significant research advances in the science and practice of dermatology. Congratulations, Roxana! Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD Stanford Medicine

Zinaida Good, Ph.D., an instructor at Stanford Institutes of Medicine, was awarded a $50k American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute IRG Pilot Grant for her project entitled “Mitigating CAR T cell immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment.”
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Want to learn all about AI in Dermatology? Then come to our American Academy of Dermatology @aadskin AI bootcamp (session S011). I'll be covering fair and responsible AI in dermatology. #AAD2024

DBDS' Rob Tibshirani is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Leo Breiman Award from the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association for outstanding contributions to the statistical learning, statistical computing and biostatistics fields.

DBDS' Julia Salzman: How she flipped traditional genomics analysis on its head
Read the story here: scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/02/27/gen…

Daniel Rubin's paper, 'Towards Trustworthy Seizure Onset Detection Using Workflow notes,' was just published in npj Digital Medicine.

Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.103…

James Zou team: New paper recently published in the Harvard Data Science Review discussing how data science can benefit from large language models (LLMs) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/pqiufdew/r….
Congratulations to James and team! James Zou