(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...

Where does AI stand today, and where is it headed next? The @stanfordhai.bsky.social #AIIndex2026 breaks it all down with the rigorous, objective, and data-driven insights. Read the full report here: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Our team had a great time at the My Heart Counts 5K where we walked & ran to support the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, which helps families with genetic heart disease access life-saving treatments & care. You can still donate & support here: pro.gofundme.com/team/819273

(1/2) Built to tackle cardiovascular disease — the world's leading cause of death — My Heart Counts app recently got an upgrade. Download the app here: apps.apple.com/us/app/my-he...

We’re proud to partner with @stanfordhai.bsky.social to support the next wave of innovative AI research. These seed grants will fund 29 research teams totaling $2.17M — and we’re excited to co-fund three of the projects at the intersection of AI & healthcare. hai.stanford.edu/news/collabo...

Our partners @stanfordhai.bsky.social just released the #AIIndex2026: a deep dive into what's ahead for AI with opportunities, the critical gaps, and what it all means for our collective future. Learn more: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

About 50% of people with diabetes develop nerve damage in their feet & many don't find out until it's too late. A new study from inaugural CDH pilot grant awardees explores how a smartphone app can catch it sooner and with more precision. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Where does AI belong in clinical workflows? A randomized trial from CDH Affiliate Faculty Jonathan Chen, Kevin Schulman, & co-authors, found that both 1st & 2nd-opinion AI improved clinicians’ accuracy, but who goes first can lead to different errors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to introduce the 2026 Stanford Center for Digital Health Grant Awardees, a cohort of scientists working on projects that can transform health. Join us in celebrating this exceptional group of researchers from across @stanforduniversity.bsky.social cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

A study led by Rohan Shad & Will Hiesinger in collaboration with CDH's @euanashley.bsky.social & Curtis Langlotz & others introduces a foundational AI system for cardiac MRI, achieving clinical-grade diagnostic accuracy with a fraction of the data typically required. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Designed to take on the vast landscape of modern biological data, CellVoyager is an AI agent that autonomously runs complex scRNA-seq analyses at scale. Learn more about the work from CDH-funded researcher James Zou and team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if all it took to start making better choices was one little nudge? A recent study found that digital “Microsteps" can shift expectations toward healthier behaviors for adults on GLP-1 RAs. Learn more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com

Hospitals often use e-alerts to flag acute kidney injury (AKI), but do they actually work? In a study of 3.1 million adults in Wales, CDH-funded researcher Pascal Geldsetzer & colleagues found no measurable impact on patient outcomes. Learn more: www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

With its ability to identify and flag potentially harmful gene variants, Evo 2 has clear clinical implications in the field of biological complexity — which is why CDH-funded researcher Brian Hie and his team have made it fully open source. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Walk with Me: Fatima Rodriguez studies heart disease prevention and population health to improve outcomes by reaching patients earlier. Hear what inspired her path—and how she starts each day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_X... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @stanfordcdh.bsky.social

CDH-funded researcher @brianhie.bsky.social & co-authors recently introduced MULTI-evolve, a rapid evolution framework that has the potential to advance protein design, a big step forward for biological research, biotechnology, & therapeutic development. Learn more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

(1/2) As the demand for abdominal CT scans increases and radiologists remain in short supply, the need for automated image analysis is growing.

(1/2) Evo 2 is a new AI model that could transform how we predict and prevent disease. Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs, it flags harmful genetic variants and generates realistic DNA sequences. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Could habits on GLP-1 medications improve with a small digital nudge? CDH leadership & team found participants responded positively to simple digital reminders inspiring researchers to hone in on more microstep health tools. med.stanford.edu/news/insight... @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social

What if a single night of sleep could flag your future health risks? SleepFM, developed by CDH-funded researcher James Zou & colleagues, was trained on 600K+ hours of sleep data from 65K+ individuals using AI to forecast risk for 100+ diseases. sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260109023114.htm

Digital health tools in pathology have advanced rapidly, yet many have not been integrated effectively. SpEMO is a new computational framework that integrates multiple modalities creating a powerful tool for discovery & clinical applications. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/2) Evo 2 is a new AI model trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs that can predict the impact of disease-causing gene variants and generate realistic DNA sequences across a wide range of organisms.

We’re still gathering voices for the AI Healthcare Worker Perspectives survey, and we’d love to hear yours. Take the ten-minute survey here: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

(1/2) Most research on language models (LLMs) in digital health asks whether they meet clinical standards of accuracy. But what about patients and families using this technology to understand their own care?

The AI Healthcare Worker Perspectives survey is still live, and if you work in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you. Take the ten-minute survey here: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are pleased to share that the @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Canary Center will host their Symposium on April 28th. The program will focus on minimally invasive strategies to detect diseases, including cancer, at earlier, more curable stages. Details here: canarycenter.stanford.edu/canary-cente...

Can animation help democratize global health messages? A new paper from CDH Associate Director Maya Adam & co-author Till Bärnighausen explores how animated storytelling could help spread the right messages about health around the world. Learn more: rdcu.be/e4sGn

Ambient AI scribes are already easing clinician burden & burnout, but still remain expensive for healthcare systems. How we define & measure ROI will shape not only adoption today, but also how health systems adapt to the broader AI transformation in care. Learn more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

(1/2) Wellbeing has traditionally been designed to treat illness after it appears. Today however, technology is shifting the focus toward prevention, optimization, and continuous improvement of human performance.

While large language models (LLMs) can achieve near-perfect scores on medical licensing exams, these tests do not capture the complexity of real-world clinical care. (1/2)

How is AI changing your work in healthcare? If you work in this space, we'd love 10 minutes of your time to share your experience in our study: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Each year, 38 million ER visits stem from physical injury, and over 25% of patients report PTSD symptoms within a year. New research suggests the free PTSD Coach app could be a powerful self-management tool for post-injury distress. Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Applications for our $100k Stanford Center for Digital Health Research Grants are due February 1st. Learn more and submit your proposal: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026

AI is changing healthcare, and we want to know how it’s changing your work. If you’re a healthcare worker, you can share your experience in our latest study. Take this survey in less than 10 minutes to participate: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A new paper from CDH-funded researcher James Zou explores the rise of AI “co-scientists”: agents contributing to hypothesis generation, experimental design, analysis, & writing. Learn more about how we can better understand their strengths and limitations in our work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From injury prevention to disease treatment, understanding gait matters. GaitDynamics, a generative foundation model developed by CDH-funded researcher Akshay Chaudhari & collaborators, shows the power of this model trained on large & diverse gait data. See study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rare disease research moves faster when people are better connected. The award-winning film, “Matter of Time” highlights Stanford scientists Dr. Jean Tang and Dr. Anthony Oro and the role of digital tools in accelerating treatments for conditions like EB. Learn more: www.matteroftimefilm.com

What can almost 20 years of Reddit threads teach us about atrial fibrillation? A new study uses large language models to uncover patient perceptions that shape shared treatment decisions. Learn more in the full study: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Working on innovative research with the potential to transform health? Applications for our Digital Health Research Grant are open until February 1. Apply now: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026 Special thank you to Mingming Tong for the beautiful photo.

Sleep takes up a third of our lives, but its potential for AI is only beginning to emerge. SleepFM can predict 130 diseases from a single night of rest, showing how foundation models can interpret the language of sleep. Read the full study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/2) New in npjDigitalMed (Jan 9): In an online RCT of 8,616 U.S. adults, one viewing of a short, animated storytelling video about dietary sodium, such as the one below, improved knowledge immediately. youtu.be/QYqAbbifI9U

Wishing the Stanford community a happy new year. As a reminder, our 2026 research grant applications are now open. We encourage collaborative projects that bring together scientists across disciplines or schools at Stanford. Info here: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026

Congratulations to CDH-funded researcher, Pascal Geldsetzer, & his co-authors whose article “Herpes Zoster Vaccination and Dementia Occurrence” was selected for @jama.com's inaugural Research of the Year roundup. See all research featured here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

On the @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Health Compass podcast CDH Associate Directors Maya Adam & Euan Ashley discuss what exercise does to the body on a molecular level & how to incorporate exercise into daily life. Watch the full discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA77...

A new study from CDH Affiliated Faculty Johnathan Chen and colleagues examines whether the amount of clinical case information given to an LLM affects its decision-making performance, exploring four content input approaches. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...