Speakers focused on artificial intelligence in health and medicine — from the misuse of AI technology and how to avoid it, to the unique opportunities for developing AI technologies in pediatrics.
When Gita Abhiraman was a child, an early form of immunotherapy saved her mother’s life. She has dedicated her career to finding innovative treatments that could help others.
Inspired by her own family’s experiences, Bay Area native Alexandria Tartt wants to ensure cutting-edge neurological care reaches those often left behind.
Advance in creating organoids could aid research, lead to treatment
Stanford Medicine researchers developed a way to create the first heart and liver organoids that generate their own blood vessels, possibly paving the way for organoid-based regenerative therapies.
The upgrade brings one of the most advanced emergency medical helicopters in the world to Northern California. The new aircraft expands in-flight treatment capabilities and improves fast, safe transport of patients in critical condition.
Stanford Medicine scientists have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain, promising to aid research on pain disorders.
Evaluating AI in context: Which LLM is best for real health care needs?
As artificial intelligence pervades health and medicine, researchers have developed a new evaluation framework to help scientists determine which type of algorithms are best suited for health care.
Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Anna Lembke unpacks the potential of FDA-approved weight-reducing GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic as tools in treating addiction.
Stanford researchers have developed a faster, more precise way to model and print vascular systems, solving a critical challenge in fabricating transplantable organs from patients’ own cells.
Digital twins reveal how math disabilities affect the brain
Using AI to analyze brain scans of students solving math problems, researchers offer the first-ever glimpse into the neural roots of math learning disabilities.
Under the Lights: What Surgery Reveals About Brain Resilience
A team at Stanford, supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, is using the biology of recovery to uncover why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.
The three Stanford hospitals were honored by a group focused on environmental practices, two professors joined medical academies, another professor received an individual achievement award, a resident in radiation oncology earned a young investigator award and a doctoral student was named a Hertz fellow.
Investigators at the newly established Viromes Across Space(s) and Time Center will help to catalog human-dwelling viruses and shed light on the virome.
A professor and a nurse practitioner were named fellows of professional organizations, a pair of researchers received a grant to develop a brain-computer interface, and three pediatrics professors were recognized for their contributions to scientific research.
Stanford Medicine is harnessing artificial intelligence to expedite research, advance treatments, improve patient care and achieve better health equity. Follow the latest developments in the integration of AI technologies into biomedicine.
Researchers and physicians at Stanford Medicine are expanding our understanding of how cancer originates and spreads, discovering more effective treatments, and helping prevent recurrence.
The latest news from Stanford Medicine's research and clinical communities as they uncover the secrets of conditions such as epilepsy, autism, stroke, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease and pioneer treatments for these conditions.
Researchers and physicians at Stanford Medicine are learning the origins of mental illness and finding more effective ways to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and bipolar disorder.
Stanford Medicine researchers are uncovering the secrets of heart conditions such as tachycardia, atrial fibrillation and heart failure while surgeons are advancing techniques for bypass operations, transplantation and fixing congenital heart deformities.
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