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Sanjat Kanjilal
@sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social
Group leader | Dept of Medical Microbiology | Amsterdam University Medical Center @amsterdamumc.bsky.social | research machine learning for dx/tx/prevention of infectious diseases
Lost in translation
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Learned today that New Year’s Eve in Amsterdam is absolutely insane
December 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Cornwall, Oxford and London Holidays!
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
OpenEvidence valued at >$10B with $100M in revenue. Not much in this post about if it improves patient care..but that's old hat

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Over 100 million Americans will be treated this year by a physician using AI. The Information just reported that OpenEvidence ("ChatGPT for doctors") will become 1 of only 8 “applied AI” sta...
Over 100 million Americans will be treated this year by a physician using AI. The Information just reported that OpenEvidence ("ChatGPT for doctors") will become 1 of only 8 “applied AI” startups to r...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This month's @natrevmicro.nature.com is fantastic!

Here @amsterdamumc.bsky.social, my team is building from scratch a next-gen clinical micro informatics infrastructure to support real-time pathogen surveillance; explicitly connecting the hospital to public health

www.nature.com/nrmicro/volu...
Nature Reviews Microbiology - Volume 24 Issue 1, January 2026
Viral pathogens and global health, inspired by the Focus issue.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today I am very proud to announce the release of the Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset - Mass General Brigham (ARMD-MGB; physionet.org/content/armd...) , as part of an NIH-funded collaboration led by Jonathan Chen at Stanford. (1/6)
Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset Mass General Brigham (ARMD-MGB) v1.0.0
ARMD-MGB contains detailed microbiology and clinical metadata for >225,000 patients and >970,000 cultures collected over 10 years
physionet.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
When you can watch an entire series with a thoroughly unlikeable main character, you know the director and actor have done an amazing job!

Also, the attention to detail in the set pieces somehow manages to capture the beauty of that time and place without empty sentimentality, brilliant
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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No easy solutions, but a lot of excellent points. It may be that tomorrow’s leaders will be those who have the courage to fail
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Reposted by Sanjat Kanjilal
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com Kudos to @tylim.bsky.social and @jameshay.bsky.social for a huge effort and thanks to all the collaborators for their hard work. See the final version here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reposted by Sanjat Kanjilal
This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week

This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Sanjat Kanjilal
The role of AI in infectious diseases is emerging—offering new opportunities for infection prevention, detection & control.

Explore developments & practical applications ⤵️
spkl.io/63323Ad83c @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If successful for drug delivery, this could be really be helpful for minimizing adverse effects of treatment for infections… question is, can it get into a non-vascular space? (Ie abscesses or granulomas)…and can it be done cheaply so that we all can use it?
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a #Microrobot capable of transporting drugs to specific locations within the body, with the potential for use in #Hospitals in the near future.
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Read the full article: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Thank you @tedpak.bsky.social for publishing the code for the LLM medical concept extractor you built for our recent paper! 2 things make this significant: a) This isn’t done enough in translational research and b) it’s designed for general use (ie Dockerized). Superb!

github.com/tpaklab/llacie
GitHub - tpaklab/llacie: Large Language Model Clinical Information Extractor
Large Language Model Clinical Information Extractor - tpaklab/llacie
github.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Sanjat Kanjilal
Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature
The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Gave my 1st talk in NL: how to make multicenter data analysis with patient data actually work.

tl;dr: common data models (global interoperability) + LLMs (data harmonization, mapping, future-proofing) + federated learning (privacy)

Let me know what you think!

drive.google.com/file/d/1N3yk...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last chance world! Application closes tomorrow!
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Really happy to see this out! Congrats @tedpak.bsky.social on an important and top notch piece of research!

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Syndromic Analysis of Sepsis Cohorts Using Large Language Models
This cohort study compares the performance of a large language model against manual medical record review for extracting presenting signs and symptoms data from hospital admission notes and uses these...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This article doesn't explicitly say what (I think) many of us who practice/d in the US implicitly understand / feel, which is that health disparities, inequity and sickness are a feature, not a byproduct, of the US healthcare system. They are highly profitable

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Health care in the USA: money has become the mission
Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated ...
www.thelancet.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Hey world, we have an opening for a PhD candidate in my lab! Come join our team in Amsterdam and help build an AI learning health system for infectious diseases (along the way eat some haring and get your bike game on)

werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/nl/vacatures...
Vacatures - PhD Innovatieve AI-toepassingen in het laboratorium Medische Microbiologie - Amsterdam UMC
Wil jij met AI bijdragen aan snellere en betere diagnostiek van infectieziekten? Ben je analytisch sterk en werk je graag in een multidisciplinair team? Ontdek jouw impact bij Amsterdam UMC.
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
D'Angelo's music oeuvre is incredible but it was his song Africa that changed my entire perspective about what is possible with music. The acoustic demo version lifted the song to a new level, which I didn't think was possible.

A true genius 🥲

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D'Angelo - Africa (Acoustic Demo)
YouTube video by MonBienCherAmi
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October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It’s 2am. Do you know where your public health agency is?
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome to be a part of this project to publish a huge EHR dataset of patients with/without AMR for the research community

An equally large *harmonized* EHR dataset from my previous center (Mass General Brigham) is forthcoming & will allow for multicenter validation!
Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset (ARMD): A Resource for Antimicrobial Resistance from EHRs - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Antibiotic Resistance Microbiology Dataset (ARMD): A Resource for Antimicrobial Resistance from EHRs
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
www.science.org/content/arti...

There's a meta-story here about the generation of knowledge in the 21st century and the (immense) resources it takes to ensure it is of high quality. It is / should be an industry unto itself
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM