UCSF AI News

  • This is How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

    By Laura López González on

    UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The breakthrough opens the door to developing entirely new proteins that could, one day, produce medicines to stop diseases like cancer.

  • UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55

    By Laura Kurtzman on

    Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and clinical bioinformatics — died on June 13 at the age of 55.

  • Five Questions for Joanne Chun

    By Kira Goldenberg on

    The School of Pharmacy’s Joanne Chun, PharmD ’93, PhD ’96, leads a new master’s degree program focused on AI’s transformation of drug discovery and development.

  • Your Fitness Tracker Could Help Doctors Spot Health Risks Early

    By Laura López González on

    Health trackers keep tabs on nearly 1 in 4 Americans at this point. Professor of Medicine Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc, answers questions about the future of these ubiquitous gadgets and the data they collect, share, and analyze.

  • New and Easier Way to Monitor Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Kids

    By Jess Berthold on

    This spring, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Walnut Creek Outpatient Cetner will become one of the only children's hospital on the West Coast to have an intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine for children with IBD, making for a much better patient experience.

  • How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm with His Thoughts

    By Robin Marks on

    A paralyzed man was able to move a robotic arm and fingers simply by imagining himself doing so, with the help of brain signals decoded through a computer.

  • How Artificial Intelligence is Fostering Human Connection in Health Care

    By Laura López González on

    AI has come to doctors’ office near you. With patients’ consent, physicians and patients across the country are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to note-take during visits to foster better discussions during visits, and help save time afterwards.

  • The Future of Neuroscience: Building a Silicon Brain

    By Shailee Jain on

    A digital twin of a human mind? It isn’t science fiction.

  • On the Origin of Diseases

    By Ariel Bleicher on

    Insights from human evolution could change how we understand and treat illness.

  • Can AI Improve Diagnosis of Rare Diseases?

    By Melinda Krigel on

    Researchers at UCSF and UCLA created an AI algorithm to analyze health records, identify patterns and flag potential AHP patients, aiming to enhance diagnosis of rare diseases.