BMIR News
Khatri and Team Discover Biomarker for Flu Susceptiblity
Using a computational approach, BMIR’s Purvesh Khatri and team have successfully pinpointed a blood-based genetic biomarker to determine an individual’s susceptibility to influenza, which allows them to predict whether someone exposed to the flu virus is likely to become ill. They are believed to be the first to have discovered a biomarker for flu susceptibility.
BMIR Ascendant at 2018 Stanford AI in Medicine Symposium
BMIR faculty featured prominently at this year's AI in Medicine: Inclusion and Equity (AiMIE) symposium. Jonathan Chen kicked off the day by providing a brief introduction to commonly used buzzwords from AI to big data to deep learning to machine learning. Nigam Shah reviewed Stanford Medicine's Program for Artifical Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, which seeks to bring AI technologies to clinical care at Stanford in a safe, cost effective and ethical manner. Tina Hernandez-Boussard moderated the program wrap-up with nationally-recognized scholars from Medicine, Engineering and the Humanities discussing highlights from the day's talks within the context of exploring frameworks for an inclusive future of AI in healthcare.
Hernandez-Boussard Named to National Advisory Council
BMIR’s Tina Hernandez-Boussard has been named to the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality, providing her with an exciting opportunity, together with other advisory council members, to identify evidence gaps and set research priorities to make health care safer and improve care delivery.
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Notable Projects and Services
CEDAR is making data submission smarter and faster, so biomedical researchers and analysts create and use better metadata.
The NCBO manages a repository of all the world’s publicly available biomedical ontologies and terminologies—now more than 390 in number.
Protégé is the most widely used ontology-development system in the world.
Green Button
Green button: the promise of personalizing medical practice guidelines in real time
BMIR: Who We Are
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Research (BMIR) studies how acquiring and processing information can improve health and wellness, and enhance biomedical research. As a collaborative team we: develop and evaluate computational methods for biomedical discovery and decision making; enhance clinical care and biomedical research through information management; and integrate research, training, and adoption of information technology in biomedicine.
Dr. Purvesh Khatri promoted to Associate Professor
Purvesh Khatri has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and of Biomedical Data Science, effective May 1, 2018. During his time on the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Khatri has garnered a remarkable international reputation for his focus on novel translational bioinformatics approaches to translational medicine in the broad domains of autoimmunity, infection and inflammation.