Department of Biomedical Informatics Archive — Page 1 of 26
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September 2, 2026
Peter Embí named Director of the National Library of Medicine at NIH
Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research. -
August 5, 2026
Team’s AI agent to speed Alzheimer’s treatment
Patients who qualify for new Alzheimer's disease therapies often wait weeks before receiving a first infusion. -
July 2, 2026
Team’s prediction task compares GPT-4o with classic machine learning
Large language models have been functionally opaque. Seeking some transparency, a team undertook a comparison with traditional machine learning for predicting which patients would discontinue their home cancer medications. -
June 30, 2026
Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research
Due to nations’ conflicting privacy regulations, de-identified clinical data needed for science doesn’t always travel so well internationally. A team turned to AI to generate a better class of fake people living with HIV. -
June 23, 2026
New framework renders AI trustworthy for cancer subtyping
As trustworthiness takes center stage in medical AI, a new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering describes a solution for trustworthy AI cancer subtyping. -
May 27, 2026
Vanderbilt Health-led team wins NIH Replication Prize for biobank data quality tool
DNA biobanks had lacked systematic ways to evaluate whether the medical record data being analyzed accurately reflected the diseases under study. -
May 18, 2026
Study finds benefit in genotype-guided care for depression
Genetic variants known to slow or speed metabolism of drugs for depression and anxiety disorders are very common.