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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.

Tumor boards are “high-stakes, high-cost meetings for high-risk patients,” says Timothy Keyes, a data scientist at Stanford Health Care and a combined MD and PhD candidate in cancer biology and biomedical informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Read the story here: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/meet-4-developers-leading-the-way-with-ai-agents/