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James Zou: “The rise of agentic AI teammates in medicine,” The Lancet, 2/8 issue

“Medicine is in the dawn of a fundamental shift from using artificial intelligence (AI) as tools to deploying AI as agents. When used as a tool, AI is passive and reactive. Even powerful medical AI foundation models today remain tools that depend on human users to provide input and context, interpret their output, and take follow-up steps. To fully unlock AI’s potential in medicine, clinicians need to make the key conceptual shift from using AI as sophisticated calculators to embracing AI as health-care teammates.”
Read more here:  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00202-8/abstract

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Collaboration and Careers Forum Overview 2025

“This is a new era for us,” Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science Sylvia Plevritis began, opening the third annual Collaboration & Careers Forum on January 16, 2025. The event, which connected leaders from various sectors with DBDS faculty, students, and researchers to discuss technological advancements in precision healthcare, focused heavily on new developments in AI. It explored how those advancements could be applied to improve efficiencies and health outcomes.

Read the story here: https://dbds.stanford.edu/collaboration-and-careers-2025-overview/https://dbds.stanford.edu/collaboration-and-careers-2025-overview/

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Purvesh Khatri and Tim Sweeney get FDA clearance for TriVerity

For the past decade, Purvesh Khatri and team  have been working on developing blood-based signatures for presence, type, and severity of infection. The signatures were exclusively licensed by Inflammatix, Inc., which a BMI postdoc, Tim Sweeney, and Khatri co-founded seven years ago. This week a test based on those signatures, TriVerity, received and FDA clearance. It is testament to the students and postdocs in our BMI program (now BDS) that enables translation from computation analysis to clinical care.

Huge congratulations!
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