Atul Butte Keynote: Re-imagining Drug Discovery to Diagnostics from a Trillion Points of Data

Описание: Posted in honor of the late Dr. Atul Butte (1970–2025), a visionary physician-scientist and bioinformatics pioneer whose work transformed how we think about data, diagnostics, and discovery.

Atul was a friend, colleague, collaborator and mentor to many in the NextMed Health (http://NextMed.Health) community. Atul's dynamic and inspiring keynote at NextMed Health 2015 (then called Exponential Medicine) captures the spirit of his relentless drive to make science faster, smarter, and more impactful for patients worldwide.

Dr. Butte explores how big data is revolutionizing biomedicine — from retroactive crowdsourcing of public omics data to precision diagnostics, drug repositioning, and low-cost translational research. Delivered with humor, insight, and urgency, this talk is a rallying cry for students, clinicians, and entrepreneurs to rethink how science is done and accelerate solutions from bench to bedside.

🧬 Topics Covered:
• Why biomedical research is moving from hypothesis-first to data-first
• How “retroactive crowdsourcing” is giving anyone access to millions of genomic datasets
• Using public data to repurpose drugs like imipramine for cancer treatment
• Outsourcing preclinical models (yes — even rat colonoscopies!) with a credit card
• Turning bioinformatics insights into startups and clinical trials in under 2 years
• The rise of precision medicine, wearable tech, and patient-generated data
• Transforming hospital systems into learning health systems
• The call for every physician and researcher to step up — and act

🔬 Highlights include:
• A shoutout to a high school student who built a breast cancer diagnostic with online data
• Stories of how companies were spun out of academic findings and rapidly acquired
• Reflections on ICD coding absurdities and how we must evolve beyond them
• A $50K cancer trial initiated from publicly available datasets — and a moving patient email that reminds us why this work matters

⚡ “It’s not just about algorithms and cloud computing. It’s about predicting disease, finding treatments, and giving hope. The data is there. It’s just waiting for you.”

👨‍🔬 Speaker Bio:
Dr. Atul Butte was the inaugural Director of the UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences, a professor at UCSF and Stanford, and a widely respected leader in precision medicine. He founded multiple startups and helped shape public policy and research infrastructure in California and beyond. More about Atul here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Butte

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