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UPMC cancer startup with former DBMI student founder is acquired by California company
Dr. Saadawi Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer received a fellowship in the Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program and graduated with a MS in Biomedical Informatics in 2004. She was mentored by former DBMI faculty member Rebecca Jacobson, MD whom she...
University of Pittsburgh Launches Center to Reduce Global Health Disparities for Women
Pitt Health Sciences announced the launch of a new global innovation center to reduce health disparities for women -- the Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center in Women’s Health Analytics and Research (VIHAR). Housed in the School of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical...
New Grant Award – NIH U24 – Uncovering the Shared Genetic Origins of Childhood Cancer and Structural Birth Defects Through Enhanced Data Integration and Analysis with the CFDE Data Distillery Knowledge Graph
MPI Jonathan Silverstein was awarded this Common Fund Data Ecosystem U24 with Contact PI Deanne Taylor of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. See https://reporter.nih.gov/search/mImgDzp_wEG2m4HLFsv5pg/project-details/10994331
Sept 17, 2024 Clinical AI Presentations at Medicine Grand Rounds by DBMI Team
Watch the recorded presentation here: Link to Recorded Presentation
Anatomy-aware Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model for AI-powered medical imaging
Shyam Visweswaran is part of the BU-led interdisciplinary team that developed the first anatomy-aware Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model that advances the power of and trust in AI-powered medical imaging. This research was made possible through...
STAT news investigation on embedded bias in clinical algorithms includes extensive commentary by DBMI faculty.
STATnews investigation on embedded bias in clinical algorithms features extensive comments from Shyam Visweswaran. See: https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/03/embedded-bias-investigation-health-equity-clinical-algorithms/
Shyam Visweswaran was inducted as an International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics fellow
Shyam Visweswaran, a biomedical informatics professor and vice chair of clinical informatics in Pitt's School of Medicine, and the director of the Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence (CCAI), has been named a fellow of the International Academy of Health...
Erik Wright presents at Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology (ISMB)
This summer had a glut of conferences among the Wright Lab (https://wrightlabscience.com/news). Aidan attended UseR! in Salzburg, Austria. Both Erik and Aidan attended ISMB in Montreal, Canada. Erik presented a talk entitled, “Predicting gene functional...
Shyam Viswesaran speaks on Racial Equity in Clinical Algorithms
On June 21, 2024, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation organized a convening titled "Together to Catalyze Change for Racial Equity in Clinical Algorithms" in Washington, DC. Shyam Visweswaran, MD, PhD, spoke as...