Congratulations to Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD, on receiving a grant to expand his study of closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS) for chronic pain using a new personalized device.

Congratulations to Serina Chang, PhD, and Avi Feller on receiving a CDSS Machine Learning Research Award for “AI-Accelerated Behavioral Experiments for Real-World Decision-Making,” a project developing ways to use LLMs as synthetic respondents to help researchers identify promising interventions before committing to costly fieldwork.

Emma Pierson, PhD, and Ziad Obermeyer, MD, have been awarded $1.7 million through the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science. The grant will support research on advancing medical discovery with AI interpretability and agentic AI techniques.

Congratulations to Ahmed Alaa, PhD, on receiving a 2026 Okawa Foundation Research Grant of $10,000 for his project, “Towards Human-AI Complementarity in Healthcare through a Unified Causal Inference Framework.”

Congratulations to CPH AGG member, Mark van der Laan, PhD, CPH PhD student, Toru Shirakawa, MD, and co-investigators from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research (DOR) for receiving funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to improve how researchers compare the clinical effectiveness of sequential treatment decisions.

Congratulations to Ahmed Alaa, PhD, for receiving $1 million from NIH to continue his research, “A Model Editing Framework for Participatory Multimodal AI in Dermatology”. The study will develop new methods that enable highly-skilled dermatologists to edit multimodal AI models to achieve dermatologist-level performance in diagnosing skin disease.