Congratulations to Reza Abbasi-Asl for receiving the UC Noyce Initiative Award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications, in collaboration with UCSB and UCD, and the 2026 Marcus Program Transformative Integrated Research Award with UCSF researchers, focusing on developing personalized brain network models to predict non-invasive brain stimulation responsiveness in stroke patients.
Sandya Subramanian, PhD, Receives the Weill Institute-Catalyst Final Award for Medical Devices
Congratulations to Sandya Subramanian, PhD, and collaborators, for winning the Weill Institute-Catalyst Final Award for Medical Devices for their project, DetruSense – A Non-invasive Wearable Sensor for Bladder Muscle Activity.
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Multiview AI Approach Can Improve Diagnostic Accuracy for Cardiac Imaging
Read UCSF Health featuring Geoff Tison, MD, MPH, sharing their demonstration that showed deep learning with ECGs improves detection of major cardiac conditions with full results published in Nature Cardiovascular Research
