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Abstracts: September 13, 2023
| Gretchen Huizinga, Ava Amini, and Kevin Kaichuang Yang
The new #MSRPodcast series “Abstracts” is your source for cutting-edge research in brief. In the first episode, join researchers Ava Amini and Kevin K. Yang to learn about their new paper on using evolutionary-scale protein data to improve protein design.
In the news | CNBC
Microsoft and Paige are building the world’s largest AI model for detecting cancer
Microsoft announced Thursday it is teaming up with digital pathology provider Paige to build the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence model for identifying cancer. The AI model is training on an unprecedented amount of data that includes billions of images,…
Collaborators: Project InnerEye with Javier Alvarez and Raj Jena
| Gretchen Huizinga, Javier Alvarez-Valle, and Raj Jena
Microsoft Health Futures’ Javier Alvarez & oncologist Raj Jena have been collaborating for years on AI-assisted medical imaging. Today, their work is seeing real-world impact, helping doctors accelerate cancer patients’ access to treatment.
Awards | Insider
Kathleen Sullivan Named to Insider’s 30 Under 40 in Healthcare List
After leading strategy for a health plan and a pioneering digital-health startup, Sullivan wanted an even bigger arena. Sullivan joined Microsoft in 2017 to help the company’s global research organization find its footing in healthcare. As the senior director of…
In the news | Clinical Leader
AI’s Potential To Improve Clinical Operations, Trial Matching
With the rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT, there come questions of how this technology can be used in industry, especially in healthcare. At this year’s DIA conference, Dr. Hoifung Poon, general manager of Microsoft Health Futures, spoke about…
Microsoft at KDD 2023: Advancing health at the speed of AI
| Hoifung Poon
This content was given as a keynote at the Workshop of Applied Data Science for Healthcare and covered during a tutorial at the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (opens in new tab), a premier forum…
In the news | JAMA
Large Language Models Answer Medical Questions Accurately, but Can’t Match Clinicians’ Knowledge
This article is about how these models could be used in medical scenarios, current limitations and future research areas, and the how the medical community should agree on how to use this technology.
In the news | CBS News
Microsoft vice president on the future of AI and medicine
Peter Lee spoke to CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, about the promise of AI to reducing tasks that are burdening healthcare professionals so they can focus on their patients.
In the news | Nature
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand. Read about recent advances in protein design, including MSR’s research into protein structure generation via folding diffusion.