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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Aug 28

We're thrilled to share that @aihealthmit.bsky.social faculty lead Regina Barzilay has been included in TIME's list of #TIME100AI for 2025! 👏
📢Full Announcement: jclinic.mit.edu/regina-barzi...
📰More from TIME: time.com/collections/... #AISky

Photo of Regina Barzilay seated at her desk looking at the camera. The photo is framed by a black and red graphic that also reads "TIME100/AI 2025"

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Aug 27

How can small errors in medical notes lead AI to misdiagnose patients? @bostonglobe.com's Tech Columnist Hiawatha Bray explores @aihealthmit.bsky.social PI @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social's pioneering research on AI bias in healthcare in a new feature published today. bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/b...

Can artificial intelligence cause medical errors? This MIT researcher shows it can. - The Boston Globe

As hospitals rush to embrace AI systems that help diagnose diseases, Marzyeh Ghassemi's research suggests the technology is still rife with flaws and biases.

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · Aug 20

Redefining druggable targets with artificial intelligence - @wcmenglanderipm.bsky.social @aihealthmit.bsky.social go.nature.com/4fHNMYi

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Aug 11

🤖 Rapid advancements in AI have resulted in job replacement anxiety, even in medicine. But how can AI empower clinicians to improve medicine? 🩺 Jameel Clinic AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay shares her insights with MIT Sloan Exec Ed.
📰 Read: mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t... #AISky #MedSky

3 ways AI helps to empower health care clinicians | MIT Sloan

In health care, AI is speeding up administrative tasks, improving the accuracy of diagnoses, and curtailing unnecessary treatment.

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Aug 4

Please join us in congratulating #JameelClinic PI Dina Katabi on being awarded with the prestigious 2026 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award 👏
📰 Announcement: jclinic.mit.edu/ieee-award-2... #MachineLearning #AcademicSky

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣 Calling all students and postdoctoral researchers in the field of molecular machine learning: submit your work to #MoML2025 @ MIT for free admission!
📄Submit: moml.mit.edu/submit
🐦 Register Early Bird for 40% off your ticket: moml.mit.edu/event-detail... #MachineLearning #moleculardesign

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢We’re thrilled to announce the return of #AICures2025 on Monday, Sept. 22! This year’s conference features a new workshops focused on deploying AI tools in clinical care and more!
📄Call for abstracts: forms.gle/mxtLqzD9aPy6...
🎟️Register now: mitmgb.ai

White text overlaid on a blue graphic that reads "MIT-MGB AI Cures 2025 | Monday, September 22 | Samberg Conference Center

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 23

🦠 "Common infections could once again become fatal." A new essay in Physical Review Letters by @delafuentelab.bsky.social & @aihealthmit.bsky.social faculty lead Jim Collins on how AI could transform antibiotic discovery. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez (left), Jim Collins (right)

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 22

💬 The use of LLMs for cancer care has grown rapidly in recent years. But a recent meta-analysis published in npj Digital Medicine, co-authored by @aihealthmit.bsky.social PI @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social revealed gaps in the clinical readiness of this technology. #MedSky nature.com/articles/s41...

Top row (left to right): Yuexing Hao, Zhiwen Qiu, Jason Holmes, Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Bottom row (left to right): Wei Liu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Saleh Kalantari

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 21

💡 Did you know that all cells have an integrated stress response (ISR), which helps cells survive stressors? In a new paper published in @cellpress.bsky.social, researchers introduce a new light-based tool (an optogenetic platform) that controls the ISR in cells.
📄: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Top row (left to right): Felix Wong, Alicia Li, Satotaka Omori, Ryan Lach, Jose Nunez, Yunke Ren
Middle row (left to right): Sean Brown, Vipul Singhal, Brent Lyda, Taivan Batjargal, Ethan Dickson, Jose Roberto Rodrigues Reyes
Bottom row (left to right): Juan Manual Uruena Vargas, Shalaka Wahane, Hahn Kim, Jim Collins, Maxwell Wilson

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 17

🎞️ ATTN Boston-area science professionals & film lovers: The Woods Hole Film Festival (July 26 - Aug. 2) will screen “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution" on July 31, a documentary about @aihealthmit.bsky.social Chair and Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp! www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

6 film festivals and series to check out this summer

From Boston to Provincetown, WBUR film critic Erin Trahan highlights the many places to enjoy documentaries, indie films, and local shorts this season.

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 2

🔮 A new deep learning model called ORAKLE can predict which sepsis patients are at-risk of MAKE30 i.e. Major Adverse Kidney Events within 30 days, defined by the following: 1️⃣ requiring dialysis 2️⃣ persistent kidney dysfunction 3️⃣ death.
📄: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MedSky #AISky

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jul 1

Are we approaching medical superintelligence? 🤖 @wired.com's @willknight.bsky.social interviewed @aihealthmit.bsky.social PI David Sontag to understand what @microsoft.com's MAI-DxO means for the future of healthcare.
📰: www.wired.com/story/micros... #MedSky #AISky

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

www.wired.com

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congrats to @aihealthmit.bsky.social PI Connor Coey on becoming one of 11 faculty members to be granted tenure @mit.edu!
📰 More in MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/tenured...
📖 More on Connor Coley and his research: jclinic.mit.edu/team-member/... #AcademicSky #AISky

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 25

How can hospitals reduce patient length of stay or the turnover of its nurses? If you're looking for a health-focused #SummerRead ☀️ try "The Analytics Edge in Healthcare," a new book co-authored by @aihealthmit.bsky.social faculty lead Dimitris Bertsimas: news.mit.edu/2025/qa-road... #MedSky

Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation

"The Analytics Edge in Healthcare," co-written by MIT Vice Provost for Open Learning Dimitris Bertsimas and two MIT alumni, explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health...

news.mit.edu

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to @aihealthmit.bsky.social faculty lead Jim Collins' lab and Phare Bio for being awarded w/ @newsweek.com's AI Impact Award for their landmark contribution to AI-driven antibiotic discovery! 🔥
📰 Read more: jclinic.mit.edu/ai-impact-aw...
#AISky

Blue graphic overlaid with white text that reads "Newsweek AI Impact Awards 2025" followed by "Phare Bio 'Most Innovative AI Technology or Service, Extraordinary Impact in AI Innovation'"

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 18

Since the 1960s, chemists have sought the aid of computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) in chemical synthesis 🧪 Researchers @aihealthmit.bsky.social published a new paper introducing ASKCOS, an open source CASP tool performing a wide range of tasks.
📄: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #AISky

First row, from top (left to right): Zhengkai Tu,Sourabh J. Choure, Mun Hong Fong, Jihye Roh, Itai Levin
Second row (left to right): Kevin Yu, Joonyoung F. Joung, Nathan Morgan, Shih-Cheng Li, Xiaoqi Sun
Third row (left to right): Huiqian Lin, Mark Murnin, Jordan P. Liles, Thomas J. Struble, Michael E. Fortunato
Bottom row (left to right): Mengjie Liu, William H. Green, Klavs F. Jensen, Connor W. Coley

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 17

Matching X-rays to 3D images is critical for delicate procedures. Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Neel Dey, & @aihealthmit.bsky.social PI Polina Golland present PolyPose, which matches 2D X-rays to 3D scans, maintaining robust performance w/o additional tuning. #MedSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Top row (left to right): Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Neel Dey, Polina Golland
Bottom row: diagrams showing a 3D image of the top portion of a skeleton, from the shoulders to the head with accompanying X-rays and CT scans.

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 16

Tue, 6/17 12pm ET on Zoom 🎦 Saro Passaro, @gcorso.bsky.social, @jeremywohlwend.bsky.social will present Boltz-2! Models + careful affinity data handling result in an affinity predictor approaching FEP accuracy @ 1000x the speed 🔥
Details: portal.valencelabs.com/starklyspeak...
🗓️RSVP: lu.ma/4bpuwbsr

Boltz-2 virtual seminar · Luma

Join us for on online seminar where we will share the details of our new model Boltz-2 and discuss the future of biomolecular modeling 🧬 The Zoom link will…

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National Academy of Medicine @nam.edu · Jun 12

What if a mammogram could predict breast cancer risk years in advance?

@aihealthmit.bsky.social‬'s Regina Barzilay and her team built MIRAI, a machine learning model that uses mammograms to identify a patient's risk long before signs are visible on a scan.

Can AI Predict Breast Cancer? NAM Feature Story

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jun 10

A team led by Regina Barzilay, a computer science professor at MIT, has launched Boltz-2, an algorithm that unites protein folding and prediction of small-molecule binding affinity in one package. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

MIT and Recursion partner for AI drug discovery tool

Freely available Boltz-2 algorithm can predict small-molecule binding affinities

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · Jun 6

Move over AlphaFold3. Boltz-2 has arrived, bringing affinity prediction for protein-small molecule interactions!

Can’t wait to see what this group does next. Congrats to all @gcorso.bsky.social

Was a pleasure writing this:
www.cancergrandchallenges.org/news/boltz-2...

Boltz-2: democratising the future of drug design

Open source structure prediction with binding affinity

www.cancergrandchallenges.org

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 10

What a turnout! 🤯 Thank you to the 400+ attendees who came to listen to the first-ever Boltz-2 presentation in-person and for asking great questions! We look forward to seeing how Boltz-2 will empower future research in biomolecular structure prediction! 🧬🔥 #AIsky

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 9

'93 Nobel Prize laureate and Jameel Clinic Advisory Board Chair Phil Sharp breaks down why Boltz-2 is so groundbreaking. Join @gcorso.bsky.social + @jeremywohlwend.bsky.social today @ 4pm in Stata Center for their talk on Boltz-2!
🗓️RSVP: jclinic.mit.edu/events/unvei...
🎬: youtu.be/YDrFggLBEQw?...

'93 Nobel Laureate Phillip Sharp on significance of Boltz-2 and affinity binding

YouTube video by MIT Jameel Clinic - AI & Health

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MIT Jameel Clinic @aihealthmit.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join @gcorso.bsky.social and @jeremywohlwend.bsky.social on Monday, June 9 @ 4pm in the Stata Center for their presentation on the future of biomolecular modeling!
🗓️RSVP: jclinic.mit.edu/events/unvei...

Unveiling Boltz-2 – MIT Jameel Clinic

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