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.

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.

We are delighted to welcome Ziad Obermeyer, MD as a new CPH faculty member. Appointed jointly with UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Dr. Obermeyer’s work includes algorithmic bias and the integration of AI into clinical workflows. Dr. Obermeyer has been honored with several important awards, including TIME100 most influential people working in artificial intelligence.

Congratulations to Romain Pirracchio, MD, MPH, PhD, for receiving the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader award at the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal NAM Emerging Leaders Forum!

Congratulations to Yun Song, PhD, who has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)!

CPH AGG Member, Mark van der Laan has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Tze Leung Lai Memorial Lecture Award. This award recognizes van der Laan’s exceptional and significant contributions to the theory, application, and best practice of statistics in biomedical science.