"New Federal Programs Driving Transformative Health Breakthroughs" panel. From left: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF vice chancellor for science policy (chair), Susan Marqusee - NSF, Arunan Skandarajah - ARPA-H, Sheng Lin-Gibson - NIST. |
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Precision Medicine World Conference Expands Federal, AI, Equity Topics with Strong UCSF Presence
This was the ninth consecutive year UCSF co-sponsored PMWC – a conference known as a vital cornerstone for the healthcare and biotechnology. More than 2,000 attended the 2024 conference. UCSF had 29 speakers presenting on topics spanning from Living Therapeutics to Health IT Interoperability Policy.
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Help Wanted, Scientists Need Apply
To ensure effective, equitable, and inclusive advances in a world being transformed by science and technology, Keith Yamamoto, vice chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy/director of UCSF Precision Medicine, suggests in a recent Science editorial that scientists are needed doing science, but also embedded in every influential sector of society, "Academia and funders must provide career exploration opportunities that inform students about how their science expertise and skills can drive evidence-based reasoning and decisions in policy, business, law, media, economics and more."
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Genetic Discovery Reveals Who Can Benefit from Preterm Birth Therapy
UCSF researchers call for precision medicine approach that could identify targets for novel treatments. “This study calls for a precision framework for future drug development,” said the study’s senior author, Jingjing Li, PhD, associate professor in UCSF’s Department of Neurology and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research. Read more
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How AI Can Help Spot Early Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease
Top predictors include high cholesterol and osteoporosis, the latter in women only. The work demonstrates the promise of using artificial intelligence (AI) to spot patterns in clinical data that can then be used to scour large genetic databases to determine what is driving that risk.“This is a first step towards using AI on routine clinical data, not only to identify risk as early as possible, but also to understand the biology behind it,” said the study’s lead author, Alice Tang, an MD/PhD student in the Sirota Lab at UCSF. Read here.
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Congratulations to Ida Sim, MD, PhD, honored on the STAT News “2024 STATUS List” of “50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences.” Ida is a primary care physician, researcher and entrepreneur at UCSF, UCSF Chief Research Informatics Officer, Co-Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and member of the UCSF Precision Medicine Platform Committee. Read announcement
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UCSF faculty Laura M. Gottlieb and Claire D. Brindis honor the legacy of Nancy E. Adler in Health Affairs "In Remembrance Of Nancy Adler: The Intangibles" - they highlight how "she propelled the science of social determinants forward by asking how social disadvantage became biologically embedded, recognizing the need to answer fundamental questions about mechanisms and measures before moving to interventions." Read here
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International Women's Day - Events all week!
Highlights include UCSF Women's AI panel today at noon, Below the Belt film screening, Women in Science panel: Moving Forward in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine! Full schedule here
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Precision Med TRI-CON
Including UCSF's Atul Butte and Charles Chiu. Topics include AI in Precision Medicine, Liquid Biopsy, Implementing Precision Medicine and more! Details here
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UC Health Conference: "From Data to Action: Driving Healthcare Innovation"
This event is a unique opportunity to connect with a diverse community of professionals and industry leaders in AI in biomedicine, health data governance, and Real-World Evidence (RWE) ft. UCSF speakers and more! See the Agenda
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PMLS Multiomics in Precision Medicine 2024
This two-day event, part of the 2024 Precision Medicine Leaders’ Summit series, was developed in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Biomedical Informatics. Learn more
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Office of Science Policy and Strategy |
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AAAS President Keith Yamamoto Called on STEMM Community to Move Toward Science Without Walls |
Yamamoto delivered the Presidential Address as Chair of the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society. The theme addressed science and technology would proceed faster and better in an ecosystem free of barriers that currently separate us by discipline, approach, institution, nation, access, wealth, seniority, race, and gender; we shall explore problems, consider solutions, and envision science without walls. Read article | Watch Video [Presidential Address begins at 33:00]
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The Elements of Precision Medicine |
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