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The first Executive AI Summit on Healthcare and Medicine was held by Stanford’s Biomedical Data Science Department and Accenture on April 8, 2025. It brought together leaders from academia, biopharma, technology, consulting and healthcare delivery to discuss the great potential and necessary safety measures that define the rapidly changing AI healthcare landscape. Check out the eBooklet with highlights from the summit, including faculty and industry talks, panels and an interactive demo session.  

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood has been selected to receive the 2025 EMBS Professional Career Achievement Award “for outstanding technical achievement and leadership in multimodal decision support with lasting impact to academia/industry in multimodal healthcare AI.”

The award is given annually “for outstanding contributions advancing Biomedical Engineering and its professional practices as a practicing biomedical engineer working in industry, government, or other applied areas related to biomedical engineering.”

This year’s awards presentation will be held on Monday, July 14, 2025, during the opening ceremony of EMBC’25 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Find out more here:  https://embc.embs.org/2025/.

Congratulations to Serena Yeung-Levy, Alejandro Lozano, Minwoo Sun, Jeff Nirschl, and James Burguess on receiving an NVIDIA Academic Grant in support of BioMed-MLLM: A Family of Open Multi-modal Large Language Models for Biomedicine.

The project began this April and will complete in September, 2025.