Registration for our 2026 Annual Symposium on October 22nd is open! This event brings together researchers, clinicians, & business leaders on Stanford’s campus to explore the latest research & innovation at the intersection of health & technology. Reserve your spot at cdhannualsymposium.com

Agentic AI is here, and it is already changing how research gets done. CDH-funded researcher James Zou discusses what this means for scientific discovery in a new Stanford Report article. Read more here: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Agentic AI in biomedical research: What is it and can it expedite science?

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate, hypothesize, and speed up scientific exploration.

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Most LLM benchmarks miss the complexities of a real clinical practice. BRIDGE, from CDH-funded researcher Jonathan Chen and co-authors, introduces a multilingual evaluation framework built from 87 clinical tasks across 14 specialties. Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new paper from CDH researchers introduces the first AI-assisted systematic review in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), using GPT-4o to accelerate evidence synthesis while maintaining expert human oversight. Learn more in the full study: www.jmir.org/2026/1/e85840

How could generative & agentic AI transform drug discovery? A commentary from CDH-funded researcher James Zou & co-authors published in @americanheart.bsky.social Circulation presents a roadmap to accelerate therapeutic development the drug discovery pipeline. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

What happens after healthcare AI goes live? A new study in NEJM Catalyst establishes a framework for post-deployment monitoring, helping clinical practices ensure their AI systems continue to deliver safe, effective care.

A robust system of support across social, clinical, & structural contexts is essential to success with GLP-1 RAs, according to a study from CDH Affiliated Scholar Isabella de Vere Hunt, Director Eleni Linos, Associate Director Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, & co-authors. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New research led by Dr. Moritz Schaefer, mentored by CDH-funded researchers Zinaida Good & Jure Leskovec, introduces SpatialWhisperer. This work was presented at the International Conference of Machine Learning last week. Learn more and access the full model: github.com/zinagoodlab/...

GitHub - zinagoodlab/spatialwhisperer

Contribute to zinagoodlab/spatialwhisperer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH & Chiadi E. Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, FAHA discuss their work on the @americanheart.bsky.social guidelines around Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome. The guidelines aim to provide a unified, evidence-based framework for clinicians everywhere. youtu.be/GRCmFIiCC-M?...

2026 Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome Guideline

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(1/2) We are thrilled to have Strava as part of our Industry Affiliate program.

The Stanford Center for Digital Health Annual Symposium will bring researchers, clinicians, and business leaders together on the @stanforduniversity.bsky.social campus to explore the latest research and innovation at the intersection of health and technology. Register now at cdhannualsymposium.com

(1/2) CDH Associate Director Fatima Rodriguez joined the Metabolic Health Business Building Summit hosted by the McKinsey Health Institute & @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social alongside Dr. Mehmood Khan, CEO of Hevolution Foundation, & Prof. Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School.

In a study, CDH Affiliated Faculty Jonathan Chen & co-authors, found that LLMs outperformed both physicians & older AI systems on sophisticated clinical reasoning cases — surpassing a benchmark that has defined expert medical computing for 65+ years. Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician

More than 65 years ago, complex clinical diagnostic reasoning cases were introduced as the gold standard for the evaluation of expert medical computing systems, a standard that has held ever since. In...

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What does it truly mean to quiet the “food noise” with GLP-1 medications? The @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social took a closer look at the new work published in @jamanetworkopen.com by CDH-funded researchers. medicine.stanford.edu/news/stories...

Quieting the Food Noise: Inside the Real Experience of GLP-1 Medications

Through patient interviews, Stanford researchers reveal the real experience of GLP-1 medications, including quieted cravings, side effects, stigma, and barriers to access.

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In a new @jamanetworkopen.com study from Stanford Center for Digital Health, researchers interviewed patients about their real experiences with #GLP1 medications. For many, the story was about life when food was no longer in charge. https://stanford.io/4gfNpGU

(1/4) Passionate about storytelling and digital health research? Stanford CDH is recruiting 3 Stanford students/trainees to help share our work with the world. Apply by July 31st. More details below.

We are thrilled to welcome Strava to our Industry Affiliate program. Through this program Strava will collaborate with Stanford researchers for a longer investment in sports science. Learn more about the collaboration: press.strava.com/articles/str...

Strava Announces Collaboration with Stanford University Researchers to Bring Leading Sports Science to 195 Million Athletes

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How do patients feel about ambient AI scribes? A new CDH Digital Health Grant-funded study of 2,000+ patients found strong support for the technology. Read the full publication to learn more: academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar... @amia.org

In this new invited commentary in @natmachintell.nature.com , our own Jiyeong Kim, and co-author, Carolyn I. Rodriguez, discuss PsychFound, a domain-specific LLM that demonstrated a potential for LLM grounded in real-world clinical practice in psychiatry. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our 2026 Grant Awardees, Summer Han, Natalie Lui, & Shreya Shah, are developing a scalable agentic AI framework that helps maximize the lifesaving potential of early detection of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in the US. Learn more: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

Is a single comorbidity score enough for all patients? At the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), CDH travel awardee, Yeon Mi Hwang, presented a data-driven, personalized framework for more accurate comorbidity scoring. Learn more about our travel award: cdh.stanford.edu/industry-aff...

(1/2) Allison Okamura, a 2026 CDH Grant Awardee, aims to make aging in place safer & more manageable by creating transformative soft robotic physical assistance technology.

What helps patients sustain the benefits of GLP-1 RAs over time? A new study from CDH led by Affiliated Scholar Isabella de Vere Hunt shows that treatment is only part of the equation — behavioral support and lifestyle change are still essential. Read the full study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What does more holistic, patient-centered care look like in the era of GLP-1s? We led a workshop with experts and industry leaders across healthcare, research, and technology to discuss the future of metabolic health. Read the full report: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

(1/2) 2026 CDH Grant Awardees Zinaida Good & Jure Leskovec are working to help accelerate T cell therapies by combining the power of artificial intelligence and real patient data.

PTSD remains widely untreated in the US, with care out of reach for many. A new publication from CDH Affiliated Faculty Eric Kuhn and colleagues review how digital mental health technologies are reshaping treatment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026 CDH Grant Awardees Margaret Cychosz & Matthew Fitzgerald are using wearables and machine learning-powered speech analysis to improve language development for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. Learn more about all of our 2026 grant awardees at cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

My Heart Counts is evolving into a fully digital research platform thanks to CDH-funded researcher Daniel Seung Kim, combining real-world health data with fully autonomous randomized trials. Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meet two of our 2026 Digital Health Grant Awardees: Kavita Sarin & Helen Bronte-Stewart who are working to develop a method to detect Parkinson's before traditional diagnosis by combining digital cognitive motor signals with skin biopsy. Learn more: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

In 2026, Stanford CDH’s call for proposals received 149 applications. From those proposals, we funded 5 projects at $100,000 each. In addition we funded $125,000 to 3 more projects for a total of $625,000 awarded to 8 teams. See our full portfolio of funded research: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...