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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
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Building the preeminent foundation of talent and knowledge and bringing together a broad community of innovators to advance computational science in health research, practice, and education in support of improved health for all. bakarinstitute.ucsf.edu
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Congratulations 2026 FAMIA Inductees @julianhong.bsky.social ! Applied Informatics Recognition Program amia.org/news-publica...
Congratulations 2026 FAMIA Inductees
Congratulations to the 2026 class of Fellows of
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November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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 |
@julianhong.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social team via #JCOCCI ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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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...
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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...
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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...
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...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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@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
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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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September 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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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...
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Liu Lab - Neurological Surgery / Radiation Oncology | OCPD Opportunities and Job Board
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September 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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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
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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
August 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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/...
Docs hope UCSF-Stanford hub can set ‘example’
Donor, schools pledge $200 million effort.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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🚨 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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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...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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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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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…
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July 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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
July 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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
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...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s? See
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paper by
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et al. "Selective vulnerability and resilience to Alzheimer's disease tauopathy as a function of genes and the connectome" academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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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
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July 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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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...
RUN TIBURON is a fundraiser for UCSFʻs Survivorship and Wellness Health services
July 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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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...
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...
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July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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
ucsfdocit.bsky.social UCSF DoC-IT @ucsfdocit.bsky.social · Jul 1
📢 UCSF’s M2AI Lab is hiring a Postdoc in Multimodal Medical AI!

Lead research on multimodal foundation models for medicine to improve diagnosis & treatment decisions—working across AI, clinical data & real-world care.

🔗 Apply now: docit.ucsf.edu/news/were-hi...

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July 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#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
Mirai-1.5: Assessing Breast Cancer Risk From Any Mammogram
Featuring Michael Nercessian, Computational Precision Health PhD student
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July 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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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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...
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June 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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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
June 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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/
June 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM