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euan ashley
@euanashley
Stanford Chair of Medicine | Author of The Genome Odyssey | Founder of biotechnology companies | Board member AstraZeneca, Dexcom
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    Mar 28
    New AI paper from us this week. When my student first showed me his initial findings, I really didn’t know what to make of them. I felt that this was an interesting but curious loophole phenomenon that would shortly be closed. I was very wrong. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
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    Nov 11, 2022
    One of my all time favorites…
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    Thoughts of Dog
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    Jan 27, 2018
    i had a long talk. with my fren. about how to spot. a fake ball throw. the optimal strategy. is to follow the ball. with your eyes. instead of your heart
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    May 2, 2024
    Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known. Its benefits in prevention outstrip any known drugs: 50% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, 50% reduction in the risk of many cancers, positive effects on mental health, pulmonary health, GI
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    Jan 12, 2022
    Excited to share some new work from us today on ultra-rapid genome sequencing for the diagnosis of critically ill children and adults. In critical care settings, genetic diagnosis can shorten stays, direct precision therapy, save money, and help with family planning. 1/
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    Jun 14, 2025
    Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.
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    Feb 4, 2023
    A landmark study. Adverse drug outcomes significantly lower in those with pharmacogenomically-guided therapy. It is time to make personalized prescribing a reality. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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    euan ashley
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    Sep 15, 2023
    There was an incredible moment in clinic yesterday when I was able to tell a patient that her disease appeared to be *reversing*. This is the first time in my life I have used those words. Cardiac myosin inhibitors for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are game changing.
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    Jul 13, 2023
    Incredible paper from @GoogleAI today in @Nature on their medically-tuned large language model. The implications of recent leaps in #AI capability for medicine are profound and although these first steps with MedPalm, bioGPT and others feel early... 1/n
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    Large language models encode clinical knowledge
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    euan ashley
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    Aug 11, 2023
    Language models can now be trained to understand the language of life (DNA, RNA, proteins). Incredible new work showing a protein language model can predict pathogenicity of all possible (450m) missense variants in the human genome! 😮
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    Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model
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    euan ashley
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    Nov 29, 2020
    I live in awe of my patients’ life experiences. A few years ago I was inspired to write about their journeys. I’m excited to say that many of these stories will appear in a forthcoming book, The Genome Odyssey (released February 2021). celadonbooks.com/book/the-genom…
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    euan ashley
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    Sep 19, 2024
    What an honor and privilege to serve as Stanford Department of Medicine's new chair. I look forward to working alongside the department’s faculty, staff, and trainees to move medicine forward and to improve the health of people here in the Bay Area and across the world. Thank
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    Stanford Department of Medicine
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    Sep 18, 2024
    Announcing our new chair, @euanashley, MB ChB, DPhil! Dr. Ashley is a practicing cardiologist, head of the Ashley Lab, and a long-time member of the Stanford faculty. Read more about Dr. Ashley and his appointment here: medicine.stanford.edu/news/current-n…
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    euan ashley
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    Feb 23, 2021
    It is exciting, humbling, and a little terrifying to launch The Genome Odyssey today. I am so grateful to my patients for sharing their lives and their stories. I am also indebted to my colleagues who shared time and ideas with me. Finally, 👉 new website buff.ly/3bAXknp
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    euan ashley
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    Oct 10, 2018
    New from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network! In 20 months, 1519 referred, 601 accepted. Diagnoses made in 35%. Almost 80% of diagnoses led to a change in medical management. 31 new syndromes. Healthcare costs after diagnosis: 6% of those before. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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    euan ashley
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    Oct 9, 2024
    One of the most promising areas for the application of AI in medicine is scaling specialty expertise. There simply aren't enough specialist doctors to care for everyone in need. We believe AI can help. As a first step towards that goal, we worked with the amazing Google medical
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