The Butte Lab

Nisarg Patel and Atul Butte characterize the U.S. digital therapeutics pipeline and highlight the emerging sector’s remaining regulatory, cybersecurity, data governance, and reimbursement challenges in npj Digital Medicine.
Congrats to Douglas Arneson, Matthew Elliott, Arman Mosenia, Boris Oskotsky, Rohit Vashisht, Travis Zack, Atul Butte, Vivek Rudrapatna and collaborators for having their work on CovidCounties published in Scientific Data.
Zicheng Hu’s manuscript is getting accepted into PNAS, and the preprint is available now on BioRxiv.
Douglas Arneson, Matthew Elliott, Arman Mosenia, Boris Oskotsky, Rohit Vashisht, Travis Zack, Paul Bleicher, Atul Butte, and Vivek Rudrapatna publish on CovidCounties, their interactive, real-time tracker of the COVID-19 pandemic in medRxiv.
Zicheng Hu’s grant proposal, “Pan-vaccine Analysis to Test the Impact of Cytomegalovirus on Vaccine Efficacy” was awarded under the UH2 mechanism.
Daniel Wong’s abstract was accepted to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists. Daniel was selected to give a platform talk.
Atul Butte is quoted in AARP’s magazine on the novel coronavirus and the immune system.
Beau Norgeot and other current and former members of the Butte Lab publish on accurately and securely de-identified free-text clinical notes in npj Digital Medicine.
Atul Butte is interviewed in The Guardian regarding covid-19 testing in California.
Greg Goldgof wins funding from the UCSF Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) Program, run by the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Douglas Arneson, Atul Butte, Matthew Elliot, Arman Mosenia, Boris Oskotsky, Vivek Rudrapatna, Rohit Vashisht and Travis Zack collaborate with Paul Bleicher, founding CEO of OptumLabs, to create a website to display covid-19 statistics by county: CovidCounties.org.
Atul Butte provides new insights into preterm birth in the journal Frontiers of Microbiology.
Vivek Rudrapatna, Benjamin Glicksberg and Atul Butte are co-authors on a paper on the accuracy of medical billing data in the measurement of colorectal cancer screening rates in BMJ Open Quality.
Kelly Zalocusky, former postdoctoral scholar in the lab, accepts a position as Senior Data Scientist at Genentech.
Thomas Peterson starts a position as Director, UCSF REACH Informatics Core and as Assistant Adjunct Professor, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (UCSF).
Sanchita Bhattacharya publishes on open-access clinical trial initiatives including ImmPort, in collaboration with Critical Path Institute researchers and a Clinical Pharmacologist at Pfizer. “Open Data for Clinical Pharmacology” in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Sanchita Bhattacharya co-authors “Open Data Revolution in Clinical Research: Opportunities and Challenges” in CTS: Clinical and Translational Science.
Matthew Elliott will enter the PhD program at UC Santa Cruz to work with Prof. David Haussler on an exciting project at the intersection of neuroscience and cancer research.
Thomas Peterson publishes an article entitled “Explanatory Model of Dry Eye Disease Using Health and Nutrition Examinations: Machine Learning and Network-Based Factor Analysis From a National Survey”, in the JMIR Medical Informatics.
Jieming Chen and Atul Butte’s work included in the huge release of cancer genomics studies in Nature.
Vivek Rudrapatna and Atul Butte publish on opportunities and challenges in using real-world data for health care in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Hyojung (Hanna) Paik and co-authors publish in Scientific Data.
Charlotte Nelson publishes in Nature Communications.
Benjamin Glicksberg joins the faculty at Mount Sinai and the newly-formed Hasso-Plattner Institute for Digital Health.
UCSF taps Atul Butte to lead Big Data Center.
California launches initiative to advance Precision Medicine.
UCSF receives $5 million to integrate data from Cancer Research Models.
‘Purity’ of tumor samples may Significantly bias Genomic Analyses.
FDA-approved antidepressant may combat deadly form of lung cancer, study finds.
White House recognizes Butte, Endy as open science Champions of Change.
Diabetes’ genetic underpinnings can vary based on ethnic background, studies say.
Stanford team, Northrup Grumman to partner on bioinformatics work.
Scientists use public-database search to identify novel receptor with key role in type-2 diabetes.
Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says study of electronic records.
Stanford/Packard scientists find new uses for existing drugs by mining gene-activity data banks.

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