DBDS’ James Zou awarded Overton Prize
Awarded by ISCB, the prize recognizes the research, education, and service accomplishments of early to mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology.
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“My lab has had a long-standing interest in understanding how aggressive breast tumors arise, why they are resistant to therapy, and why they are prone to recur in distant organs,” said Christina Curtis, PhD, the RZ Cao Professor and a professor of oncology, of genetics, and of biomedical data science.
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Rare variant association studies (RVAS) of complex traits have emerged as a powerful approach to advance drug discovery and diagnostics.
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“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