A new $5 million grant from the Warren Alpert Foundation was recently awarded to the Department of Biomedical Data Science (DBDS) at the Stanford School of Medicine. The grant will fund the training of 15 graduate scholars over the next five years to enhance training and retention of scholars in computational biology/artificial intelligence (CBAI).
Read the story here: https://dbds.stanford.edu/five-million-warren-alpert-foundation-to-fund-15-computational-biology-ai-scholars/
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2024.2327535
Akshay Chaudhari’s group publishes new paper in Nature Medicine on adapting open-source and closed-source large language models for clinical text summarization tasks. The paper presents a framework for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of language models, showing that the best adapted models can even outperform medical experts.
Read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02855-5
StanfordMed LIVE: The State of AI in Health and Medicine
Join StanfordMed LIVE for this special panel discussion on the state of AI in health and medicine on March 18, from 12-1 p.m. at 500P Assembly Hall (virtual option available). Following opening remarks by Stanford Medicine’s three leaders – Dean Lloyd Minor, David Entwistle and Paul King – there will be a panel discussion featuring David Magnus, PhD; Natalie Pageler, MD; Michael Pfeffer, MD; Sylvia Plevritis, PhD; and Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD. Lunch will be available for in-person attendees.