Anurag Agrawal
@AnuragAgrawalMD
Physician scientist interested in lung health, emerging health tech, and AI. Dean, Biosciences and Health Research at Ashoka University. All tweets personal
1/6. Inspired by the attached slide from @adamcifu on why doctors overestimate their skills, I have generalised the list to why CEOs/Directors/leaders probably suffer the same bias. Each item seemed like a note to myself (except the high compensation 😀)
The gut hormone mimetic era in medicine is just getting started nature.com/articles/s4225… erictopol.substack.com/p/the-gut-brai…
Cool idea!
A simple ingestible pill innovation for monitoring inflammation of the gut cell.com/device/fulltex…
Our Aeneas AI model gives historians valuable new insights into ancient inscriptions & ancient history that may have taken years to uncover otherwise. Published in @Nature today: deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Glad to announce this effort @IlonaKickbusch
Big news! 🚨 KCDH-@AshokaUniv × @WHOSEARO launch a year-long webinar series on Responsible AI in Healthcare, starting Aug 6. Hear from top global experts incl. Dr. @alabriqu , Dr. @AnuragAgrawalMD, Dr. Duggal (@icmr_nirdhds) & more. 🔗 Register: who.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Very interesting work with worrying results for India. Indian women are currently hitting menopause around 45, about 5 years earlier than the West. I wonder if compared to past generations, we are aging faster despite a higher avg life expectancy (fewer infection deaths etc).
Ovaries age 2.5x faster than other tissues—making them perfect models for testing anti-aging drugs. New finding: Your longevity is predicted by when your mother hits menopause. Late maternal menopause = longer life for ALL her children. The implications are staggering 🧵 📰New…
Given the number of older people on Gabapentin for sciatica type pain, this is a major concern
On the potential risk of gabapentin (Neurontin) for mild cognitive impairment and dementia rapm.bmj.com/content/early/…
Delighted to publish our review article on the generative era of medical AI in Cell! w/ @EricTopol JohnFahrner and Emma Chen
A new way to get very early detection of colon cancer using cell-free RNA (instead of DNA) @NatureBiotech nature.com/articles/s4158…
Part1 We are excited to announce a year-long webinar series on “Responsible AI in Healthcare” in collaboration with @WHOSEARO, hosted here at the Koita Centre for Digital Health at @AshokaUniv.
writing the code is the easy part now. the bottlenecks are: - defining the right product (insight, taste, timing) - distribution (narrative, audience, partnerships) - design that feels alive - data access (auth, api, privacy) - user motivation & trust (esp. w/ ai) - platform…
Big news! @VaidyaSahaj, Senior Research Assistant- AI at KCDH-A has been featured by @ELLEINDIA as one of India’s 4 Leading Women in AI! Read more: elle.in/life-culture/w… #WomenInAI #EthicalAI #AIforGood #STEM
The virtual panel of physicians with different approaches is one of those great ideas that is super obvious in retrospect.
Microsoft AI built MAI-DxO to simulate a virtual panel of physicians with different approaches collaborating to find a diagnosis on each case. They also included the ability to set a budget to avoid infinite testing (higher costs, longer wait times, etc.).
Ashoka University launches a *Special Admissions Round for the 2025 intake of the Undergraduate Programme, exclusively for students with offers from institutions located in the United States of America.* This special round has been announced to support students and families…
Good news: the very low current levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, even in places where the new variants are prevalent (XFG, NB.1.8.1), suggest that any summer wave will be limited, not like previous ones cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID1…
Nature research paper: Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis go.nature.com/3HYTQie
Getting to the virtual cell is the holy grail of life science. Now there's a challenge on to accelerate it cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @arcinstitute @CellCellPress @nvidia @10xGenomics @yusufroohani @StanfordAILab @davey_burke @UltimaGenomics
Healthy aging is sometimes described in three dimensions - musculoskeletal, cognition, immunity. Revving up the immune system in older people seems to prevent cognitive decline, as shown here, suggesting that the boundaries are blurred
Not just shingles vaccine, but also RSV vaccine reduces the risk of dementia, which highlights the benefit of revving up the immune system in older individuals nature.com/articles/s4154…
Our open source Gemma models are the most powerful single GPU/TPU models out there! Our latest model Gemma 3n has amazing performance, multimodal understanding, & can run with as little as 2GB of memory - perfect for edge devices - enjoy building at ai.studio !
We’re fully releasing Gemma 3n, which brings powerful multimodal AI capabilities to edge devices. 🛠️ Here’s a snapshot of its innovations 🧵
Glad to be part of this. We are close to designer life and by mistake or by intent, AI can amplify bio risks
AI amplifying biorisk has been a major topic in policy & governance work. Does the available evidence match this level of attention? In this cross-institutional work, we review the evidence to-date to provide grounded recommendations. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01946