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DBDS Education Committee publishes a review on graduate curriculum design

The DBDS Education Committee undertook a “Curriculum Review Project” that culminated in a published review about graduate curriculum in Biomedical Data Science. Read it ahead of print here:  https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-090624-022951. The full publication will be available in August. Authors: Christine Y. Yeh, Dennis P. Wall, Karen Matthys, Chiara Sabatti, and Julia A. Palacios.

Stanford 2025 Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) Symposium on May 1

The symposium is designed for participants to explore systems biology approaches to understanding cancer progression and treatment response. Talks covering computational and imaging innovations will focus on decoding the tumor microenvironment, analyzing spatial dynamics in metastasis, mapping cell-cell interactions, and advancing therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.

Registration is now open and free to all. Please register using this link or scan QR code in the flyer.

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Curt Langlotz in Washington Post: AI hasn’t killed radiology, but it is changing it

More than three-quarters of the AI software cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for medical use is designed to support radiology practice, says Curtis Langlotz, a radiology professor at Stanford University and president of the Radiological Society of North America’s board of directors.

“AI is not a better kind of intelligence, it’s a different kind of intelligence,” Langlotz says. “A human plus a machine is better than either one alone. I would say that has been true since I began studying AI in the 1980’s, and it continues to be true today.”

Read more here: https://wapo.st/4jk7cmB