News about BMI
2015
- Natalie Pageler, Clinical Associate Professor-Pediatrics, joins BMI as collaborating faculty.
- Vanessa Sochat shares her perspective on Better Research Tools Needed
- Jonathan Palma (MS 2012) new program director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at Stanford
- Rong Xu (PhD 2010) received the Landon Foundation–AACR INNOVATOR Award for Cancer Prevention Research and the 2015 AMIA New Investigator Award.
- Carlos Bustamante named chair of new Department of Biomedical Data Science
- Dr. Chris Longhurst (BMI Participating Faculty) has accepted the position of Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief Information Officer at UC San Diego Health Sciences.
- Teri Klein & Russ Altman (BMI Exec) received NIH funding to expand premier precision-health resource PharmGKB knowledge base.
- Russ Altman will be a speaker at the Nov 18-20 TEDMED 2015 in Palm Springs.
- Mary Jeanne Oliva awarded School of Medicine Employee of the Month, August 2015
- New Department of Biomedical Data Science announced. More to come...
- Francisco Gimenez (PhD student) graduation speech http://youtu.be/SKdlDGDvO28 (PhD candidate)
- Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD (MS grad) was selected for the Society of University Surgeons Resident Research Scholarship Award to support his research project entitled "Optimization and Validation of Transcriptomic Signatures for Improving Sepsis Diagnosis"
- Great press for Tim Sweeney (MS grad), Purvesh Khatri (BMI exec) and their colleagues work on Diagnostic Gene Set for Sepsis...
- Daniel Rubin (BMI exec) featured in Stanford Medicine in the News SCOPE.
2014
- Eric Horvitz (1993 PhD) and Russ Altman (Program Director) will lead One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence (AI100).
- Chris Longhurst (Collaborating Faculty) was inducted into ACMI
- Alum Kaustubh Supekar was awarded the 2014 Young Investigator Award by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)
- Russ Altman has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Current student Francisco Gimenez won First Place in the 2014 AMIA Student Paper competition and the Martin Epstein award.
- Rong Xu, PhD 2010, captures prestigious NIH director's New Innovator Award.
- Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, PhD (2003), FACP, FACMI, was unanimously approved by the AMIA Board to become the President and CEO. Doug is a 2003 PhD graduate of BMI.
- The Darlene Vian Memorial Student Fund Major Donor plaque was unveiled at the 2014 BMI Program annual retreat. The plaque, acknowledging donations of $1000+, has been mounted in the Medical School Office Building. Gifts to improve the quality of BMI student life may be made may be made payable to “Silicon Valley Community Foundation” with “For Darlene Vian Memorial Fund” written in the memo line. Mail your check to:
Darlene Vian Memorial Fund
Gifts Department
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94040
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BMI faculty Nigam Shah and Chris Longhurst propose the Green Button; for using aggregate patient data at point of care in Health Affairs.
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Congratulations to current student and veteran David Odgers for being named a Tillman Military Scholar in recognition of his service, leadership and academic excellence.
- Stanford Medicine magazine profiles The healing power of medical records. Shah and Altman featured.
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Alumnus Chirag Patel's paper "Studying the Elusive Environment in Large Scale" published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2014.
- Welcome back alumnus Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD. Contratulations on your appointment as Professor of Radiology, effective 7/1/2014.
- Alumnus and BMI Program Director, Russ Altman, selected for the 2013-14 Stanford Biosciences “Excellence in Mentoring Award”.
- Joel Dudley was ranked #41 on the Fast Company list of 100 Most Creative People in Business for “Splicing Information with Quality Medical Care.” (2011 BMI PhD)
- Exec Atul Butte received the E. Mead Johnson Award, Society for Pediatric Research (2014)
- Chirag Patel wins Pathway to Independence Award. (2011 BMI PhD)
- Congratulations to Kun-Hsing Yu for being selected for the 2014-2015 Student Editorial Board! The SEB will contribute to the peer-review process for JAMIA by attending Editorial Board meetings and reviewing manuscripts.
- Genetics / Genomics / Bioinformatics tie for #1 in Best Schools rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.
- Off-label drug use anyone? Check out this article referencing Ken Jung, Nigam Shah & colleagues.
- Alum Marty Chavez named CIO at Goldman Sachs.
- Current students Diego Calderon and Vanessa Sochat are actively involved in the podcast "Goggles Optional"
2013
- 1-2 sweep of student awards at AMIA -BMI students Beth Percha and Jon Mortensen.
- BMI exec Atul Butte featured in Wired.
- Theo Roth, BMI co-term (Biology senior) published 1st author paper in Nature!
- In light of his outstanding talk at the Stanford BMI retreat in turn inspired by the awesome Stanford BMI students and graduates, the Institute of Medicine had no choice but to play "catch up" and elect Mark Frisse (alum) as a member.
- Butte Lab / Khatri article featured in Oct Nature.
- Butte Lab heavily featured in Science Biology's Dry Future
- American Medical Informatics Association has named Nigam Shah (BMI Exec) this year's recipient of its New Investigator Award.
- Czars. *DRUMROLL* Congratulations to Katie Planey and Luke Yancy, Jr.
- BMI alum Olga Troyanskaya will receive the Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetics Society of America
- BMI Participating Faculty Michael Levitt got that 2AM phone call from Stockholm.
- Jon Mortensen has been published in Cell. "A Nondegenerate Code of Deleterious Variants in Mendelian Loci Contributes to Complex Disease Risk"
- First author paper by current student David Poznik gets plenty of attention. Here's just one of many.
- Atul Butte recognized by White House as an open science Champions of Change.
- (BMI Exec) Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research has clinical research training awards available. Applications due by August 9, 2013.
- BMI celebrated Dr. Lawrence M Fagan with a retirement ceremony on May 4, 2013.
- Kaustubh Supekar is lead author on recent math tutoring study. (BMI grad)
- Sarah Aerni, Mia Levy - check out these two alumnae on the Pivotal website.
- Ken Jung presentation of "Automated Detection of Systematic Off-label Drug Use In Free Text of Electronic Medical Records" received the best paper award at AMIA/TBI 2013.
- Nigam Shah makes the front page with his study regarding Mining information contained in clinical notes could yield early signs of harmful drug reactions
- Alumna Jessica D. Tenenbaum, PhD was the Chair of the AMIA 2013 Scientific Program Committee, 2013 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (TBI).
- Alumna Maureen Hillenmeyer, PhD, won the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Interfaces in Science award in 2012.
2012
- Hua Fan-Monigue received a Best Poster award at the 2012 Stanford BCATS symposium.
- Russ Altman appointed as president-elect of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and chair of the science board to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
- Award for Best Paper in Translational Bioinformatics at ISMB 2012 to Chirag Patel (Grad)
- KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, Atul Butte, faculty
- Graduate Teaching award for Biosciences, Nigam Shah, faculty
- Graduate Student Teaching Award, Francisco Gimenez, student
- TEDMED 2012 Who needs the scientific method?, Atul Butte, faculty
- Innovate 4 Healthcare Challenge - Neostream (BMI Graduate Student Team: Hua Fan-Minogue, Katie Planey, Ken Jung, Tomer Altman and Jon Palma)
- Check out the interviews with BMI Program affiliates at The Job Market Computational Biologists: The Next Pharma Scientists?
- BMI graduate in Stanford Med School Alumni Magazine interview (Liping Wei, Alum)
- Addressing the Need for More Women in Computer Science Programs, Microsoft Research Connections Team (Vanessa Sochat, student)
- Scientists discover multitude of drug side effects, interactions using new computer algorithm (Nick Tatonetti, student, Russ Altman, faculty)
- The best paper award at the Translational Bioinformatics Conference, Seoul, South Korea; Nov 10-11, 2011 was awarded to Alex Morgan (alum). AA Morgan, VJ Pyrgos, KC Nadeau, PR Williamson and AJ Butte. "Multiplex Meta-Analysis of RNA Expression to Identify Genes With Variants Associated with Immune Dysfunction"
- The Marco Ramoni award for best paper at the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA; March 19-21, 2012 was presented to Alex Morgan (Alumni), Rong Chen and Atul Butte (Faculty). AA Morgan, Rong Chen, AJ Butte, "Clinical utility of sequence-based genotype compared to that derivable from genotyping arrays" http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2012
- In Rating Pain, Women Are the More Sensitive Sex (Linda Liu - Current student)
2011
- The Best Paper award
at the Translational Bioinformatics Conference, Seoul, South Korea;
Nov.
10-11, 2011 was presented to Alex Morgan (Alumni),VJ Pyrgos, KC Nadeau, PR Williamson and AJ Butte (Faculty).AA Morgan, VJ Pyrgos, KC Nadeau, PR Williamson and AJ Butte. "Multiplex Meta-Analysis of RNA Expression to Identify Genes With
Variants Associated with Immune Dysfunction"
http://www.snubi.org/TBC2011/ - Automated Identification of Predictive Cell Populations from High-Dimensional Mass Cytometry Data
Best Open Mic - NLM 2011 (Rob Bruggner, student) - Let's Talk About Sex… in GWAS (Linda Liu, student)
- Message from the Vice Chancellor: New chair named for the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Kevin Johnson, MD gives prestigious Discovery Lecture at Vanderbilt
(Kevin Johnson, alum) - Stanford Team Trains Computers to Evaluate Breast Cancers
(Andrew Beck, student) - Diabetes Genes Decline Out of Africa (Erik Corona, student)
- International Society for Computational Biology Honors Michael Ashburner and Olga Troyanskaya with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2011. Olga Troyanskaya wins the Overton prize. She is an alumnae of the BMI program. Congratulations Olga!
