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Susan Gregurick

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I’m the Associate Director for Data Science at the NIH. All views, posts, and retweets are my own.

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American Heart Association Journals

Supported by my office doi.org/10.1161/CIRC...

Illustrates the need for enriched screening strategies for Lp(a) testing in a selective populations. 🧪

12.03.2026 10:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses for Model of Olfaction using Dempster-Shafer Theory and Neural Networks Olfactory systems in arthropods rely on arrays of chemosensory hairs (sensilla) that interact with the surrounding fluid to capture odor cues. The flu…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪. Interesting read on epistemic uncertainty quantification

10.03.2026 10:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am very sorry to learn that Phil Bourne passed away yesterday March 8. He had a huge impact at NIH and in the data science community.

He was also a good mentor to many people including me.
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09.03.2026 21:49 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Merlin: a computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset - Nature Merlin, a vision–language foundation model trained on a large dataset of paired CT scans, patient record data and radiology reports, demonstrates strong performance across model architectures, di...

www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Just out. It’s a 3D VLM that learns from volumetric CT scans, electronic health record data and radiology reports.

05.03.2026 11:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Confounding factors and biases abound when predicting molecular biomarkers from histological images - Nature Biomedical Engineering This study shows that biomarker prediction accuracy from whole-slide images can reflect confounding by codependent biomarkers and correlated variables, suggesting that models may not learn the intende...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 researchers show that current ML and graph based approaches fail to learn biomarker-specific genotype–phenotype mapping; instead, they exploit aggregated phenotypes of interdependent biomarkers or cohort-specific association as proxies for prediction.

03.03.2026 11:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Survivorship of modern total hip replacement to 30 years: systematic review, meta-analysis, and extrapolation of global joint registry data The estimated 92% 30-year survivorship of contemporary total hip replacement suggests that advances in bearing surface technology have greatly improved the long-term durability of total hip replacemen...

Survivorship of modern total hip replacement: systematic review, meta-analysis, and extrapolation of global joint registry data - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪 findings indicate roughly 92% 30 year survivorship suggests advances in bearing surface technology have improved.

02.03.2026 11:35 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses - Nature Communications Biomolecular insights into significant cultural changes during the Central European Late Bronze Age (1300–800 BCE) have been limited by cremation. Here, the authors examine available inhumation burial...

www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧪interesting

27.02.2026 11:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NetG2P: Network-based genotype-to-phenotype transformation identifies key signaling crosstalk for prognosis in pan-cancer study - BMC Biology Background Despite advances in whole-genome sequencing and identifying cancer-associated genetic alterations, understanding the influence of multiple genetic alterations collectively on cancer phenoty...

link.springer.com/article/10.1.... 🧪 Work uses AI
to translate the genomic information of patients with cancer into pathway interactions and cross-talk. A pan-cancer analysis finds distinct patterns of pathway
interaction networks among different cancer types and potential drug target.

25.02.2026 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of food allergy and IgE-sensitization

www.jacionline.org/article/S009... 🧪 This study identified 37 SNPs suggestively associated with food allergies and demonstrated genetic differences across phenotypes. It highlights the need for a unified food allergy definition.

23.02.2026 11:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A path to preventing cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: initiatives beginning in the USA Antibody therapies can remove amyloid plaques from the brain and slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease who are mildly impaired. These drugs are now being evaluated in participants ...

A path to preventing cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: initiatives beginning in the USA - The Lancet Neurology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

23.02.2026 11:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Noncoding variants and sulcal patterns in congenital heart disease: Machine learning to predict functional impact Cardiovascular medicine; Machine learning

Noncoding variants and sulcal patterns in congenital heart disease: Machine learning to predict functional impact: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful... supported by our office study explored relationship between predicted impact of ncDNVs and sulcal pattern features among participants with CHD.

20.02.2026 11:07 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Thoughtful article and worth a read.

19.02.2026 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Engineering chimeric antigen receptor CD4 T cells for Alzheimer’s disease | PNAS Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the prevailing cause of age-associated dementia worldwide. Current standard of care relies on antibody-based immunother...

Engineering chimeric antigen receptor CD4 T cells for Alzheimer’s disease | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪

18.02.2026 11:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
JCI - The promise of GLP-1 receptor agonists for neurodegenerative diseases

www.jci.org/articles/vie... 🧪. Great review evaluating the translational evidence of GLP-1RAs as candidate disease-modifying therapies for NDDs, including mechanistic pathways linking metabolic dysfunction to neuronal vulnerability, and outlining remaining challenges.

17.02.2026 11:33 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

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15.02.2026 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Development and validation of a deep learning model for diagnosing neuropathic corneal pain via in vivo confocal microscopy - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - Development and validation of a deep learning model for diagnosing neuropathic corneal pain via in vivo confocal microscopy

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Supported by our office this work
combines deep, convolutional neural network training to detect microneuromas with an uncertainty quantification mechanism that allows the model to communicate when it is unsure about a given image.

15.02.2026 12:44 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Preparing clinical research data for artificial intelligence readiness: insights from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases data centric challenge AbstractObjectives. The success of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches in biomedical research depends on the quality of the u

Preparing clinical research data for artificial intelligence readiness: insights from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases data centric challenge url: academic.oup.com/jamia/articl... 🧪. happy to have supported the Data Centric Challenge

13.02.2026 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Complex portal 2025: predicted human complexes and enhanced visualisation tools for the comparison of orthologous and paralogous complexes Abstract. The Complex Portal (www.ebi.ac.uk/complexportal) is a manually curated reference database for molecular complexes. It is a unifying web resource

academic.oup.com/nar/article/.... 🧪. Supported by my office The Complex Portal (www.ebi.ac.uk/complexportal) (1) serves as a unifying resource, linking information on protein complexes across multiple resources by providing summaries of the molecular composition, topology (when known) and function

13.02.2026 11:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Large-Scale In-the-wild Dataset for Plant Disease Segmentation - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A Large-Scale In-the-wild Dataset for Plant Disease Segmentation

www.nature.com/articles/s41... in press release includes annotations and a detailed analysis of segmentations of diseased plants. Great resource

10.02.2026 11:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My linocut of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev from shoulders up in a gradient of bright mint green at the bottom through navy to darkest blue-black at the top. He wears a suit with bow tie and a heavy bushy beard. The shape of the modern periodic table is carved into his chest as blank squares, and the elements he knew are indicated by their symbols. Those he included but not quite in the right place (because contemporary observations were still inconclusive) are indicated in pink). The blank squares were as-of-yet not discovered or isolated elements.

My linocut of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev from shoulders up in a gradient of bright mint green at the bottom through navy to darkest blue-black at the top. He wears a suit with bow tie and a heavy bushy beard. The shape of the modern periodic table is carved into his chest as blank squares, and the elements he knew are indicated by their symbols. Those he included but not quite in the right place (because contemporary observations were still inconclusive) are indicated in pink). The blank squares were as-of-yet not discovered or isolated elements.

Happy birthday to Russian #chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) who published the periodic table. 🧪🐡 #histsci Born in Siberia, the youngest child of a large family, his father was a school principal until he lost his sight & job. His mother then restarted her family’s abandoned glass factory 🧵

08.02.2026 12:56 👍 69 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 4
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ABSEIL: A Polypeptide Helicity and Ensemble Prediction Tool Nascent helicity in polypeptides and unfolded proteins arises from local structure formation and represents one of the earliest events in a protein fo…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... 🧪 tool to predict polypeptide helicity from amino acid sequence. Also training data available. Nice.

08.02.2026 13:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Genome-wide association study of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifies 58 loci and highlights GABAergic signaling - Nature Genetics Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 58 independent risk loci for major anxiety disorders among individuals of European ancestry and implicates GABAergic signaling as a potential mechanism...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪. Impressive GWAS meta-analysis from the Anxiety Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

05.02.2026 12:08 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Inhibitory probes for spatiotemporal analysis of Gαs protein signaling - Nature Chemical Biology Broadly applicable genetically encoded probes and peptide-based compounds specifically inhibit Gαs, the prototypical signal transducer of G-protein-coupled receptors, providing new mechanistic insight...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪. Exciting work on spatiotemporal modulation of Gs signaling

05.02.2026 11:54 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A flexible digital compute-in-memory chip for edge intelligence - Nature A flexible digital artificial intelligence chip with a compute-in-memory architecture is fabricated using a commercial low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor process and shows hi...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪. Looks pretty amazing.

29.01.2026 11:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪. DeepMind AlphaGenome, trained on 1 Mb of DNA sequence from human and mouse and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks including gene expression, transcription initiation, chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, transcription factor binding etc

29.01.2026 11:31 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Shaping the Future of Evidence Generation: Real-World Data to Drive Healthcare Transformation and Patient-Centered Decisions - Pharmaceutical Medicine The increasing complexity of healthcare decision making and the demand for real-world evidence call for a transformation in how Medical Affairs departments generate and communicate evidence. In respon...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... would like to see more on the implementation of the framework.

28.01.2026 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A filamentary soft robotic probe for multimodal in utero monitoring of fetal health - Nature Biomedical Engineering A soft robotic probe enables continuous in utero monitoring of fetal physiological parameters, including heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, temperature and electrocardiogram data, during open or fet...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪. Very cool

27.01.2026 11:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Temperature‐Dependent Chain Structures during Solution‐Grown Crystallization via Atomic Force Microscopy AFM-based single-molecule force spectroscopy was employed to investigate temperature-dependent single-chain folding structures of semi-crystalline PEO. Force–volume measurements enabled correlation o...

Temperature‐Dependent Chain Structures during Solution‐Grown Crystallization via Atomic Force Microscopy - Wang - Macromolecular Rapid Communications - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪. Neat study of crystallization and polymer chain folding.

27.01.2026 11:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association | Stroke AIM: The “2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With AIS” replaces the “2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With AIS” and the 2019 update to reflect recent advances in e...

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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27.01.2026 11:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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SAIGE-GPU — Accelerating Genome- and Phenome-Wide Association Studies using GPUs AbstractMotivation. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) at biobank scale are computationally intensive, especially for admixed populations requiring rob

SAIGE-GPU — Accelerating Genome- and Phenome-Wide Association Studies using GPUs url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧪 really good news for biomedical researchers using NIH STRIDES clouds.

23.01.2026 11:27 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0