Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Spring Newsletter
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Recognition
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Two BIDS Trainees Receive 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Two trainees from the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science at Yale School of Medicine have been named recipients of the 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award.
Yale Honored with 2026 ACTS Awards
Members from the Yale University were honored at the 2026 Translational Science meeting by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science.
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Publications
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- Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex readsCheng H, Qu H, McKenzie S, Lawrence K, Windsor R, Vella M, Park P, Li H. Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads. Nature 2026, 1-8. PMID: 41639459, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10105-6.
- Unifying non-Markovian dynamics and agent heterogeneity in scalable stochastic networksPélissier A, Phan M, Le Bail D, Beerenwinkel N, Rodríguez Martínez M. Unifying non-Markovian dynamics and agent heterogeneity in scalable stochastic networks. Nature Communications 2026 PMID: 41771859, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69817-y.
- LMOD+: A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in OphthalmologyQin Z, Liu Y, Yin Y, Ding J, Zhang H, Li A, Campbell D, Wu X, Zou K, Keenan T, Chew E, Lu Z, Tham Y, Liu N, Zhang X, Chen Q. LMOD+: A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in Ophthalmology. ACM Transactions On Computing For Healthcare 2026 DOI: 10.1145/3801746.
- Minimal correlation but complementary diagnostic utility for plasma cell-free RNA and proteinsBliss A, Loy C, Kim J, Shimizu C, Lenz J, Belcher E, Tremoulet A, Burns J, De Vlaminck I. Minimal correlation but complementary diagnostic utility for plasma cell-free RNA and proteins. Communications Medicine 2026 PMID: 41826701, DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01489-7.
- GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Prescriptions for Adolescents With Obesity and Associated DisparitiesKim C, Sharifi M, Ross J, Chen Y, Xu H, Krumholz H, Lu Y. GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Prescriptions for Adolescents With Obesity and Associated Disparities. JAMA Pediatrics 2026, 180: 334-336. PMID: 41557442, PMCID: PMC12820773, DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.5708.
- Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scaleCheng A, Konova A, Powers A, Corlett P, Levy I, Gu X, Huys Q, Pushkarskya H, Fineberg S, Hauser T, Bzdok D, Harpaz-Rotem I, Babuscio T, Nichols L, Zhao Y, Sharma M, Meeker D, Xu H, Rutledge R, Pearlson G, Pittenger C, Yip S. Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scale. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience And Neuroimaging 2026 PMID: 41763489, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.02.009.
- Quantum Machine Learning and Data Re-Uploading: Evaluation on Benchmark and Laboratory Medicine Data SetsDurant T, Lee S, Dudgeon S, Knight E, Nelson B, Young H, Ohno-Machado L, Schulz W. Quantum Machine Learning and Data Re-Uploading: Evaluation on Benchmark and Laboratory Medicine Data Sets. Clinical Chemistry 2026, hvaf192. PMID: 41728802, DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaf192.
- CancerLLM: a large language model in cancer domainLi M, Zhan Z, Huang J, Yeung J, Ding K, Blaes A, Johnson S, Liu H, Xu H, Zhang R. CancerLLM: a large language model in cancer domain. Npj Digital Medicine 2026, 9: 266. PMID: 41720895, PMCID: PMC13036061, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02441-8.
Events
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YALE/EPIC Cosmos Datathon
Expert-led event brought teams together to explore real-world clinical data using the Epic Cosmos database. Read more.
BIDS Graduates First CB&B Master's Cohort
Twenty-three students in Yale's inaugural CB&B master's program delivered final research project presentations April 17 and 24, 2026, at Yale's BIDS, concluding the program's first year of graduate study. Read more.
BIDS at the AI at Yale Symposium 2026
BIDS participated in the 2026 AI at Yale Symposium, hosting a networking lunch on Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, presenting research on NLP for equitable kidney disease care, and showcasing work across the Poster Summit sessions. Learn more.