Harrison Zhang awarded 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Harrison Zhang, an MD-PhD student and incoming student in the DBDS PhD program this fall was recently awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship.
This year’s awardees are the eighth cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars and is comprised of 84 students from 25 countries.
Congratulations, Harrison!

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.

Illustration of health care professionals and AI working together

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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