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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · 9d

@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

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WashU Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics @washumedi2db.bsky.social · 19d

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.
#SaveTheDate #DataScience #Biostatistics #Informatics #Symposium #I2DB

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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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John Liu, MD PhD @sjohnliu.bsky.social · 28d

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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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 26d

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

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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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UCSF Radiation Oncology @ucsfradonc.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 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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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · Jul 27

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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UCSF Radiation Oncology @ucsfradonc.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · Jul 23

Backed by a $100M gift from Joan and Sandy Weill, UCSF and @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @stanford-cancer.bsky.social are launching Weill Cancer Hub West, a $200M initiative in team science to accelerate cancer research and improve care over the next decade.

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Gift Launches $200M Initiative for the Weill Cancer Hub West

A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the Weill Cancer Hub West — an innovative collaboration among some of the natio...

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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · Jul 10

Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s? See
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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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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Madhumita Sushil @madhumitasushil.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 1

#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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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · Jun 24

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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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congratulations to CPH's @[email protected], 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

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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · Jun 13

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/

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's hard to tell different types of #dementia apart, so we need better ways to describe heterogeneity in #symptoms. Using #AI from #clinical notes, we can find distinct patterns that can help diagnosis & treatment. Dr. Alice Tang tells us more! ‪@ucsf-bcshi.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/Gs5nuP2

Unlocking the Mysteries of Dementia: How Generative AI Helps Decode Patient Symptoms

Featuring Alice Tang, PhD

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · May 27

@draguilera.bsky.social from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social School of Social Welfare brings attention to #health #equity in the digital & computational ecosystem when it comes to physical activity and other related #health conditions. #spanish #personalized #AI4health
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UCSF Radiation Oncology @ucsfradonc.bsky.social · May 28

Join the Cancer Computational Community (C3) Lightning talks on Mon., 6/9, 10am! Hear from Labs of @ShengMPLab Wan-Jin Yeo, @chriswzou @sjohnliu.bsky.social, @McManus_Lab, Wei, Olshen calendar.ucsf.edu/event/comput... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social

Computational Cancer Community (C3) Monthly Meeting

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · May 22

ICYMI--Prof. Peter Washington talks computation and consumer digital health in the CPH seminar series. Full video on our YouTube channel here. buff.ly/UJpWxcU @UCSFDocIT.bsky,social #digitalhealth #AI4Good #autism #SUD

Peter Washington, PhD

Computation in Consumer Digital Health: Challenges and Opportunities. CPH Seminar on March 18, 2025.

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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · May 22

Considerations in Translating AI to Improve Care - Commentary/Oncology by @julianhong.bsky.social Divneet Mandair; Marianna Elia
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Considerations in Translating AI to Improve Care

The potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on personalized medicine, clinical decision support, clinical workflow optimization, and health care management has attracted the attention of pati...

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