Kristy Carpenter wins the “Drug Repurposing” NIDA Challenge and may have solved an even bigger issue with her research

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Harrison Zhang, an MD-PhD student and incoming student in the DBDS PhD program this fall was recently awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship.
Congratulations, Harrison!
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AI Frontiers of Healthcare and Medicine Summit delivers exciting opportunity for collaboration between industry, biopharma, and DBDS

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"Auditing the inference processes of medical-image classifiers by leveraging generative AI and the expertise of physicians" by Roxana Daneshjou (et all) was featured on the latest cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering.

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Zou Lab launches MedArena, a free platform for clinicians to use and compare frontier LLMs

MedArena is a free platform for clinicians to use and compare how frontier LLMs work on medical queries.

Check it out at: medarena.ai/login

Experimental Design: AI for Science, April 3-4

DBDS' James Zou awarded Overton Prize.
Awarded by ISCB, the prize recognizes the research, education, and service accomplishments of early to mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology.
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“Experimental Design: AI for Science” at Stanford 4/3-4/4. The workshop focuses on theory/methodology of AI-based experimental design & has an exciting lineup of speakers including David Baker, Nobel Prize winner. Faculty, students & postdocs invited.
More information: edai4science.github.io

Grand Rounds, Nigam Shah, 2/25
Time: 9:00-10:00am PT
Format: Live webinar presentation and Q&A
Registration: Open to the Stanford and AIMI affiliate community

Register Here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“This is a new era for us,” Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science Sylvia Plevritis began, opening the third annual Collaboration & Careers Forum on January 16, 2025.

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Purvesh Khatri and BMI postdoc Tim Sweeney have been working on developing blood-based signatures for presence, type, and severity of infection for 7 years. The signatures were licensed by Inflammatix, Inc. This week, a test based on those signatures, TriVerity, received and FDA clearance. Congrats!

Careers and Collaboration Forum 2025
External partners panel delivers a riveting conversation on “AI Frontiers in Healthcare and Medicine: Hype and Reality.”

Zou Group: 11 papers published in Neurips 2024
The Zou group is excited to share that they have 11 papers published in Neurips 2024, one of the main AI conferences.

The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: neurips.cc

Congrats!