Panel: Monitoring for environmental equity: A hyperlocal air quality network in Chicago
Air pollution is an invisible health hazard, responsible for an estimated 10 million premature deaths annually. Pollution is also unequally distributed within cities, producing inequitable exposures that are a key environmental justice concern. This panel…
Closing remarks: Health and Life Sciences – Delivery
Speaker: Vikram Dendi, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft Health Futures Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: https://Aka.ms/researchsummit
Tutorial: Translating real-world data into evidence
Speaker: Darren Edge, Director of Societal Resilience, Microsoft Research Cambridge The concepts of real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) emerged in the medical domain to differentiate observational data collected for some other purpose, such…
Research talks: Showcasing health equity, access, and resilience collaborations
This series of talks feature Health Delivery research and innovation, collaboration networks, and the next generation of research talent. 00:00 IntroductionSpeakers:Brianna Goodwin, Data Science Researcher, Microsoft Research & IncubationsBrooke Loughrin, Global Health Access Incubation Lead,…
Fireside chat: The future of medicines and innovation
“Medicine is an exercise of the imagination.” In this fireside chat, we are honored to be speaking with Michael Rosenblatt to discuss the importance of imagination and invention in healthcare, science, and medicine while underscoring…
Technology demo: Project Eclipse: Hyperlocal air quality monitoring for cities
Project Eclipse is a full-stack solution for neighborhood scale air quality monitoring in cities. Custom low-cost, solar powered sensing hardware feeds an Azure-based data and analytics stack that then drives end user experiences for various…
Research talk: Leveraging uncertainty in machine learning to bridge computation and experimentation
While machine learning (ML) is poised to have a transformative impact on biomedicine, its success is contingent on experimental efforts that generate relevant datasets and validate model predictions. Critically, such experimentation often requires significant time,…
Panel: Future of technology in combatting disease and disparities in treatment: A cardiovascular case study
00:00 Introduction Speakers: Vikram Dendi, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft Health Futures Jim Weinstein, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research & Incubations 07:04 Panel Discussion Moderator: Miah Wander, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Health Futures Speakers: Ann Aerts, Head…
Research talk: Next generation spatial genomics
The precise spatial localization of molecular signals within tissues richly informs the mechanisms of tissue formation and function. In this talk, we’ll introduce Slide-seq, a technology that enables transcriptome-wide measurements with near-single cell spatial resolution.…
Research talk: AI in medical imaging: What’s next?
The field of medical imaging has experienced rapid innovation from the application of artificial intelligence (AI), but there continue to be significant challenges in realizing IA’s transformative possibilities. In this talk, we provide a brief…