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Michael F. Chiang
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Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
All opinions are my own
It was wonderful to meet you here, although I wish I’d been able to hear you speak!
June 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thanks and agree it will be important to consider factors such as quantity, quality, and utility of data.
January 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Thank you for drawing attention to this, Atul! Research increasingly requires data sharing, and it will be fantastic to have better ways to measure & incentivize it...
December 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Led by Dan Huh (Penn Bioengineering) and Jeongyun Seo, with many collaborators including Vivian Lee, Vatinee Bunya, Mina Massaro-Giordano MD (Scheie Eye Institute), Vivek Shenoy (Penn Materials Science and Engineering), Woo Byun, Andrei Georgescu, Yoon-Suk Yi, Farid Alisafei.
December 16, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Here's a video about neat work supported by the National Eye Institute about using stem cells to treat corneal injury!

Led by Ula Jurkunas (Harvard/Mass Eye & Ear) and Jerome Ritz (Dana Farber Cancer Institute).
December 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Information about a paid year-long internship through the NIH Bridge2AI program (focuses on AI/data science, biomedical & clinical research, mentorship; application deadline 1/17/2025) is here: shileyeye.ucsd.edu/research/ai_...
Shiley Eye Institute | UC San Diego
The Shiley Eye Institute is the only academic institution in the San Diego area with comprehensive programs for the clinical care of patients with eye disorders, cutting edge research on surgical tech...
shileyeye.ucsd.edu
December 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Information about accessing the dataset (currently 1000 people, 2TB, and growing) is here: aireadi.org
Artificial Intelligence Ready and Equitable Atlas for Diabetes Insights
Generating a flagship AI-ready and ethically-sourced dataset to support future AI-driven discoveries in diabetes
aireadi.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Additional photos during and after...
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Thanks - I would have loved to see *your* talk at NIH, but was away at the time!
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 AM
He is very much around…
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 AM