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.

Congratulations to Sam Pimentel, PhD, for being selected by the Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program to be a U.S. Fulbright Scholar for France hosted by the Université de Montpellier.

Congratulations to Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH for stepping into the role of Associate Director, directing the capstone research course and guiding students through their projects and fieldwork that inform their final reports and presentations.

Charlie Whittaker, PhD, has received the UC Berkeley Research Opportunity Program Seed Grant to model how climate change and human activity drive animal virus spillover, helping predict and prepare for future pandemic risks.

Congratulations to Ke Sheng, PhD, for being named a fellow for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)! Fellows will be recognized at ASTRO’s 68th Annual Meeting in Boston on Tuesday, September 29.