Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, MD, PhD, has been appointed co-Director of UCSF’s newly established Center for Malaria and Vector-Borne Diseases, advancing interdisciplinary research to combat global infectious diseases.

CPH’s Ahmed Alaa and colleagues have received an award from the NIH Director’s office for work on participatory mutimodal AI and editable foundation models to improve dermatological diagnosis and tx.

CPH’s Adam Yala and his UCSF collaborator Maggie Chung, MD have been honored with the UCSF Carroll Innovation award for groundbreaking work on vision language models for cancer risk prediction.

Student Participation: Radhika Bhalerao, CPH PhD student, presenting “Large Language Model Based Identification of Brain MRI Sequences”

Student Participation: Marianna Elia, CPH PhD student, presenting “Dual-Site External Validation of a Prospectively Validated Machine Learning Model to Identify and Prevent Acute Care Events During Cancer Radiotherapy”  

Toru Shirakawa, MD—incoming PhD student in Computational Precision Health—awarded a 2025 Quad Fellowship by the Institute for International Education.