Office of Biohealth Industry Partnerships, UW SMPH

#Webinar (12/10): 'Voices From a Cancer Clinical Trial' Join us to hear patient and researcher perspectives on #clinicaltrials and the impact of #clinicalresearch participation on the future of #healthcare in #Wisconsin and beyond. Researcher Dr. Ellen Hartenbach, UW School of Medicine and Public Health will be joined in conversation by a participant in a #cancer clinical trial led by Dr. Hartenbach. This webinar is FREE and open to ALL! Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gpjAUayG #university #events #healthequity #innovation #community

UW CTI Job Opportunity: Clinical Trials Training and Learning Manager This position will be responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing a competency-driven #education program for #clinicalresearch staff, investigators and partners. Establishing a full on-boarding program for clinical trials coordinators and new investigators. Using knowledge of adult #learning principles, various #technology based, in-person and blended #training methods, this position will provide training and education that is based on accepted benchmarks to meet goals for the #clinicaltrials quality management system. Learn more and apply by 11/15: https://lnkd.in/gAj3y6RB #university #Wisconsin #health #careers #jobopportunities

This weekend WiCell had the great pleasure of hosting a workshop with students of the Masters of Science in Biotechnology Program through UW-Madison. These students, currently enrolled in the Molecular Technologies 3 Class at UW-Madison, got hands-on experience with their own plate of cells. Through the guidance of WiCell staff, students were able to able learn how to culture, feed, and passage cells. In addition, they were able to learn about current advancement in the stem cell fields and different characterization assays we do here at WiCell! We would like to extend a big thank you to Gustavo Velazquez at Madison Area Technical College for providing access to their excellent teaching lab and the M.S. in Biotechnology Program, UW-Madison for making this collaboration possible!

BioForward, Inc. released its “Wisconsin Biohealth Industry Landscape and Economic Impact Report" last week during the Wisconsin Biohealth Summit. The report highlights job growth in the sector and its contribution to the state's economy. The report shows the #Biohealth industry accounted for an estimated $22.2 billion in direct economic impact in the state last year. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/g-RWdpvk

BioForward, Inc. released its “Wisconsin Biohealth Industry Landscape and Economic Impact Report" last week during the Wisconsin Biohealth Summit. The report highlights job growth in the sector and its contribution to the state's economy. The report shows the #Biohealth industry accounted for an estimated $22.2 billion in direct economic impact in the state last year. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/g-RWdpvk

At The MedTech Conference 2024 hosted by AdvaMed, GE HealthCare joined the brightest minds in MedTech to discuss our collective ability to improve care through the convergence of AI, digital health, and precision medicine. While the future of AI is a popular topic, Peter J Arduini, GE HealthCare President and CEO, and Scott Whitaker, AdvaMed Board Chair and AdvaMed CEO, shared their perspective on how artificial intelligence is already playing a role in our healthcare today. ?? The goal remains clear: leveraging technology to benefit patients, support providers, and improve society's overall health. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eDNJxwUT ? #MedTech #HealthcareInnovation #FutureofHealthcare

Webinar (10/22): 'Research Forum: Wisconsin's Biohealth Tech Hub' Please join us to learn more about #Wisconsin’s recent designation and #funding by the U.S. U.S. Economic Development Administration as a regional Tech Hub in #biohealth and #personalizedmedicine, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison's role as a key partner in the initiative. The session will be led by Kurt J. Zimmerman, senior director, Office of Biohealth Industry Partnerships, UW SMPH. This forum is open to ALL on campus and in the community! Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gqpdAuW8 #university #biotech #technology #industry #innovation

The personalized medicine and biohealth industries encapsulate the power of innovation. The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub was created to make Wisconsin an epicenter of these ideas through research, investment, and manufacturing. That strategy was the focus of this morning's panel featuring some of the leading organizations driving this success. BioForward, Inc. WRTP | BIG STEP Medical College of Wisconsin Exact Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison #PersonalizedMedicine #Biohealth #WIEconomicSummit

Microsoft Health and Life Sciences is happy to announce the release of MedImageInsight, an open-source medical imaging embedding model: ?? MedImageInsight is trained on medical images with associated text and labels across a diverse collection of domains, including X-Ray, CT, MRI, dermoscopy, OCT, fundus photography, ultrasound, histopathology, and mammography. ??On public datasets, MedImageInsight achieves SOTA in CT 3D medical image retrieval, as well as SOTA in disease classification and search for chest X-ray, dermatology, and OCT imaging. Furthermore, MedImageInsight achieves human expert performance in bone age estimation (on both public and partner data), as well as AUC above 0.9 in most other domains. ?? When paired with a text decoder, MedImageInsight achieves near SOTA level single image report findings generation with less than 10% the parameters of other models. Compared to fine-tuning GPT-4o with only MIMIC-CXR data for the same task, MedImageInsight outperforms in clinical metrics, but underperforms on lexical metrics where GPT-4o sets a new SOTA. ??Importantly for regulatory purposes, MedImageInsight can generate ROC curves, adjust sensitivity and specificity based on clinical need, and provide evidence-based decision support through image-image search (which can also enable retrieval augmented generation). ??In an independent clinical evaluation of image-image search in chest X-ray, MedImageInsight outperformed every other publicly available foundation model evaluated by large margins (over 6 points AUC), and significantly outperformed other models in terms of AI fairness (across age and gender). We hope releasing MedImageInsight (with both open source research and commercial license) will help enhance collective progress in medical imaging AI research and development. This work was made possible by the tireless efforts of a dedicated team across multiple departments and organizations:??Noel C. F. Codella, Ph.D., Ying Jin, Shrey J., Yu Gu, Peter Lee, Dr. Asma Ben Abacha, Santamaria-Pang Alberto, Will Guyman, Naiteek Sangani, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Stephanie Hyland, Shruthi Bannur, Javier Alvarez Valle, Xue Li, John Garrett, Alan McMillan, Gaurav Rajguru, Madhu Maddi, Nilesh Vijayrania, Rehaan Bhimani, Nick Mecklenburg, Rupal Jain, Daniel Holstein, Naveen Gaur, Vijay Aski, Hwang, Jenq-Neng, Thomas Lin, Ivan Tarapov, Matthew Lungren MD MPH, Mu Wei #microsoft #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #computervision #healthcare #medicalimaging?

Microsoft Health and Life Sciences is happy to announce the release of MedImageInsight, an open-source medical imaging embedding model: ?? MedImageInsight is trained on medical images with associated text and labels across a diverse collection of domains, including X-Ray, CT, MRI, dermoscopy, OCT, fundus photography, ultrasound, histopathology, and mammography. ??On public datasets, MedImageInsight achieves SOTA in CT 3D medical image retrieval, as well as SOTA in disease classification and search for chest X-ray, dermatology, and OCT imaging. Furthermore, MedImageInsight achieves human expert performance in bone age estimation (on both public and partner data), as well as AUC above 0.9 in most other domains. ?? When paired with a text decoder, MedImageInsight achieves near SOTA level single image report findings generation with less than 10% the parameters of other models. Compared to fine-tuning GPT-4o with only MIMIC-CXR data for the same task, MedImageInsight outperforms in clinical metrics, but underperforms on lexical metrics where GPT-4o sets a new SOTA. ??Importantly for regulatory purposes, MedImageInsight can generate ROC curves, adjust sensitivity and specificity based on clinical need, and provide evidence-based decision support through image-image search (which can also enable retrieval augmented generation). ??In an independent clinical evaluation of image-image search in chest X-ray, MedImageInsight outperformed every other publicly available foundation model evaluated by large margins (over 6 points AUC), and significantly outperformed other models in terms of AI fairness (across age and gender). We hope releasing MedImageInsight (with both open source research and commercial license) will help enhance collective progress in medical imaging AI research and development. This work was made possible by the tireless efforts of a dedicated team across multiple departments and organizations:??Noel C. F. Codella, Ph.D., Ying Jin, Shrey J., Yu Gu, Peter Lee, Dr. Asma Ben Abacha, Santamaria-Pang Alberto, Will Guyman, Naiteek Sangani, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Stephanie Hyland, Shruthi Bannur, Javier Alvarez Valle, Xue Li, John Garrett, Alan McMillan, Gaurav Rajguru, Madhu Maddi, Nilesh Vijayrania, Rehaan Bhimani, Nick Mecklenburg, Rupal Jain, Daniel Holstein, Naveen Gaur, Vijay Aski, Hwang, Jenq-Neng, Thomas Lin, Ivan Tarapov, Matthew Lungren MD MPH, Mu Wei #microsoft #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #computervision #healthcare #medicalimaging?