Dec 2025: Stanford AI+Health Conference

[Chris Johnston]

For anyone interested in AI in healthcare, I highly recommend Stanford’s AI+Health Conference which takes place on 9-10 December.

Session tracks include:

• Clinical AI Applications In Use Today
• Integrating AI into Healthcare Settings
• Pioneering Innovations in Health AI
• Fundamentals of AI in Healthcare

The conference is fully online and scholarships are available. When you click to register, make sure you tick Scholarship as the registration type, and you’ll be ported to the application automatically. Application deadline is 21 November.

If you’re not available to attend on 9-10 December, it’s still worth applying because all sessions are recorded and made available for 3 months to registered participants. Note: they prefer applications with institutional email addresses.

While there’s no specific mention of patient partners on the site, they do accept patient partner applications as I was approved for a scholarship last year and again this year as a patient partner.

The application includes the following questions:

• Describe any training or professional development you have taken related to AI+HEALTH.
• Describe one specific example of work you have contributed to in the AI+HEALTH space.
• Briefly, provide a specific, attainable goal that you commit to working toward in the next year to give back to the AI+Health community.
• Why are you seeking a scholarship?

[Sandra Holdsworth]

@Chris-Johnston thanks for sharing. Sounds very interesting.

[Lucy Kovalova-Woods 0]

@Chris-Johnston Thank you!

[Chris Johnston]

For anyone interested in where AI-related biomedical research has currently reached - a recent article in Nature (see link below) highlights the use of AI to create multiple versions of entire virus genome - 3 of which were capable of infecting and destroying E. Coli bacteria.

With the declining efficacy of antibiotics, the capability to create tailored viruses is a huge step forward. However, it also opens the door to both the accidental and deliberate creation of potentially lethal viruses against which we gave no defences - which is terrifying.

It’s also, as the article points out, the first step towards AI-generated life - which has a vast range of mind-boggling implications.

Article in Nature in September: AI-Designed viruses are a step towards AI-generated life

Based on the pre-print research paper: Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models

And an equally chilling piece of AI-powered biotech research appeared in MIT Technology Review in October:
Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology by designing toxins that evade security controls.