Peter Lee
@peteratmsr
President, Microsoft Research
Which healthcare regulations should we kill? Yesterday, the comment period closed on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality RFI titled "Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation to Make America Healthy Again." The RFI asked stakeholders to pinpoint specific…
A fast-moving world requires fast moving tools. Here’s how the speed of AI is helping scientists create world-changing developments that once felt out of reach: msft.it/6000ShRLu
When it comes to uses of AI, the thing that most excites me today is how discovery is being accelerated in medicine, biology, chemistry, materials, and beyond. Great work at great labs everywhere, including (and especially) at Microsoft @MSFTResearch news.microsoft.com/source/feature…
“Nature doesn’t try to abstract itself in a human-understandable form.” At the core of my conversation with @peteratmsr was the fact that nature is staggeringly complex. It’s evolved over billions of years, meaning it has a billions-of-years head start on any human attempts to…
Daphne Koller, Noubar Afeyan, & Dr. Eric Topol, leaders in AI-driven medicine, explore how AI is reshaping how we diagnose and treat disease—from early-stage drug discovery to clinical care—in Episode 8 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited.” msft.it/6019S7p9t
I always learn so much every time I talk to people like @DaphneKoller, @NoubarAfeyan, and @EricTopol. I think you'll see why in the latest episode of The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited @MSFTResearch. Great conversations about how AI is accelerating biomedical discovery.
Daphne Koller, Noubar Afeyan, & Dr. Eric Topol, leaders in AI-driven medicine, explore how AI is reshaping how we diagnose and treat disease—from early-stage drug discovery to clinical care—in Episode 8 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited.” msft.it/6019S7p9t
In the latest episode of "The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited" @MSFTResearch, @BillGates, @SebastienBubeck, and I discuss the "capability overhang" of AI today, and why this likely means there will be an explosion of uses of AI in medicine soon. microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Big milestone for the future of quantum computing. We are delivering the world's first operational deployment of a Level 2 quantum computer, powered by our stack and in partnership with @Atom_Computing. Congrats to EIFO, @novonordiskfond, and QuNorth. novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/eifo-a…
A clip from my conversation with @peteratmsr on preventing the 3 major age-related diseases Full episode w/ @DaphneKoller @NoubarAfeyan microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Three undeniable geniuses in biomedical research and innovation @DaphneKoller @NoubarAfeyan @EricTopol talk about the impact of generative AI today and in the future, on the "AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited" podcast @MSFTResearch microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Today in @ScienceMagazine we present BioEmu1.1 @MSFTResearch. It rapidly and accurately emulates equilibrium distributions of protein dynamics at millisecond timescales. Code and datasets available on @Azure Foundry.
Today in the journal Science: BioEmu from Microsoft Research AI for Science. This generative deep learning method emulates protein equilibrium ensembles – key for understanding protein function at scale. msft.it/6010S7T8n
If you are part of a team or organization that is doing advanced materials design, chemical engineering, or biomolecule design, please consider joining the early access program @MSFTResearch for our Skala DFT functional.
Microsoft Research invites organizations of all sizes to join the DFT Research Early Access Program to explore the potential of our new Skala functional and accelerate innovation across industries through faster and more accurate density functional theory. msft.it/6012SFjGr
Excited to share two advances that bring us closer to real-world impact in healthcare AI: SDBench introduces a new benchmark that transforms 304 NEJM cases into interactive diagnostic simulations. AI must ask questions, order tests, and weigh costs, mirroring the complexity of…
I had fun doing a "Take 5" interview for the inaugural edition of Signal, a new Microsoft print magazine. They asked me 5 out of a master list of 50 questions. More info about the magazine at [email protected] linkedin.com/posts/stevecla…

We're taking a big step towards medical superintelligence. AI models have aced multiple choice medical exams – but real patients don’t come with ABC answer options. Now MAI-DxO can solve some of the world’s toughest open-ended cases with higher accuracy and lower costs.
It was so interesting to hear about the first encounters that @BillGates and @SebastienBubeck had with #genAI, and when they realized that it could have a transformative impact on healthcare and biomedical discovery.
We’re just scratching the surface of AI’s potential to transform healthcare. @BillGates and @SebastienBubeck discuss their visions for the future and what needs to happen to get there in Ep. 7 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited.” msft.it/6013SIGt3
In Ep. 7 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited,” @BillGates and @SebastienBubeck explore the state of generative AI in medicine, the potential of “medical intelligence” to empower people across healthcare, and what will come next. msft.it/6012SvJmy
What is Density Functional Theory and why is the recent advance on solving it via deep learning so important? Chris Bishop @MSFTResearch explains in this short video.
Chris Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, explains how Microsoft researchers recently achieved a milestone in solving a grand challenge that has hampered scientists and slowed innovation for decades. Watch the video: msft.it/6019SQtUX
We're excited to reveal this major advance in computational chemistry, an AI model called Skala @MSFTResearch for the exchange-correlation functional, accurate enough, and super fast, for precise in silico predictions of chemical experiments. An early access program is now open.
Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more. msft.it/6011SQwKX
Students who have just finished their first year in college: If you end up going eventually to medical school and then into a residency, you will then start your own medical practice in 2035. What will AI and biomedical science be like in that year? I think it'll be amazing...
Mourning the passing of @atulbutte. I learned so much from the precious few chances I had to be with him. He's someone who always picked up the phone whenever I needed advice, on anything, anytime. A great man who made everyone around him better.