UC Davis Center for Precision Medicine

New things are coming at the Center for Precision Medicine and Data Science! Starting with our new web page. We will update continuously, so check in for new studies and increasing information about the goings on in the Center!

Center for Precision Medicine and Data Sciences | UC Davis Health The Center for Precision Medicine and Data Sciences convenes diverse research teams to tackle today's healthcare challenges in data science, clinical care, nutrition and more.

Exciting research for liver cancer prediction in patients with Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)! Clinicians and Data Scientists in the Center for Precision Medicine & Data Sciences at UC Davis Health have harnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize the early detection of liver cancer.

CPMDS researchers created a predictive model using UC Davis data, validated against UCSF Information Commons, proving that models can be generalized across institutions, paving the way for collaborative advancements in healthcare. The findings of the team’s research has been published in the in the journal Gastro Hep Advances.

Read more about this research at: https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/uc-davis-health-team-uses-ai-to-predict-risk-of-liver-cancer/2024/02

UC Davis Health team uses AI to predict risk of liver cancer A team at UC Davis has developed a machine-learning model that can better predict which patients are at greater risk to develop hepatocellular carcinoma.

Exciting news! Dr. Gonzalo Hernandez-Hernandez and his team are featured in eLife Journal for their work on a computational model built using experimental data from mice, which provides new insights into the s*x differences associated with blood pressure medication. Postdoctoral Scholar, Dr. Hernandez-Hernandez is a member of Dr. Colleen Clancy’s lab in the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology at UC Davis. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hernandez-Hernandez by checking out the complete eLife article below!

Controlling blood pressure A computational model built using experimental data from mice provides new insights into the s*x differences associated with blood pressure medication.

We are excited to share that UC Davis Center for Precision Medicine & Data Sciences Co-Director, Dr. Colleen Clancy, will be speaking in a session on AI-driven Advances in Precision Medicine with Dr. Sharat Israni (UCSF), Dr. Suzanne Tamang (Stanford), Dr. Nevan Krogan (UCSF), and Dr. Laura Erdman (University of Toronto) at the upcoming Precision Medicine World Conference 2024!

Learn more about the program here: https://www.pmwcintl.com/program/?pmwc-program=true&sidebar=true&inlinetime=false&dayid=1&tracks=4

Please join us in congratulating UC Davis Center for Precision Medicine & Data Sciences Co-Director, Dr. Colleen Clancy, and colleagues Drs. Pei-Chi Yang, Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, L. Fernando Santana, Igor Vorobyov, & Mao-Tsuen Jeng for their recent study, “Toward Digital Twin Technology for Precision Pharmacology,” published by The Journal of the American College of Cardiology! Please click on the link below to read the full article.

Toward Digital Twin Technology for Precision Pharmacology: Abstract The authors demonstrate the feasibility of technological innovation for personalized medicine in the context of drug-induced arrhythmia. The authors use atomistic-scale structural models t...

Just wrapped up our two-day precision medicine retreat, sharing our vision and plans for the next few years of precision medicine at UC Davis Health. Special thanks to everyone who attended and those that helped make the retreat a success including Dr. Colleen Clancy, Dr. Sharat Israni, Dr. Elizabeth Morris, Dr. Ashish Atreja, Vladimir Filkov, Dr. John McPherson and Dr. Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy. We are really excited for the continued collaboration and already thinking about our next convening. More to come!

Register today for this precision medicine seminar: Ventricular Arrhythmias and Arrhythmic Substrates in the Intact Human Heart: Noninvasive Mapping with ECGI

Presented by Yoram Rudy, Ph.D. F.A.H.A., F.H.R.S., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, July 26, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Click here to register to attend in-person: https://bit.ly/RUDY_summer23

Click here to register to attend virtually: https://bit.ly/VirtualRUDY_summer23

Congratulations are in order - after 47 years of service to UC Davis and UC Davis Health, Dr. Frederick J. Meyers, Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine/Hematology-Oncology, will be retiring on June 30, 2023. Dr. Meyers will be taking some time off in July then be recalled to a new role as a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in August. He will retain his appointment at the Center for Precision Medicine and Data Sciences as co-director of the Center.

You can read more about the transition to his new role on our website: https://health.ucdavis.edu/precision-medicine/resources.html

We have some big announcements from the Center. First we want to congratulate our CAO and resident Star Wars fanatic, Chris Wang, on his new role as Director of Research Administration in the School of Medicine Office of Research. Chris has been at the Center for almost 7 years and was integral to getting the Center up and running. We’ll miss having him on our team but will surely cross paths again when we are in need of pre-award help with grants!

“This project and the precise data set we’ve created enables opportunities for further research in the role of diet and nutrition for patients in our care," Dr. Fred Meyers, project PI. Read about the efforts our team made to improve source transparency and strategic purchasing efforts of California-grown specialty crops in the hospital. Plus, new signage in the cafeteria spaces to highlight the efforts of the Food and Nutrition Services team to bring more local and sustainably grown produce to UC Davis Health: