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Medical, health, and genomics

Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. GigaPath is a novel vision transformer that can scale to gigapixel whole-slide images by adapting dilated attention for digital pathology. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model pretrained on large-scale real-world data, for advancing clinical research and discovery.

GigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology

Research Forum Ep2 | Panel | Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

Research Forum 2 | Panel Discussion: Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

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Scaling early detection of esophageal cancer with AI

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SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information

Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, James Facciola, Stephen Kwak, Jason M. Zhao, Emir A. Syailendra, Florent Tixier, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H. Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman

February 2026

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Research Intern – Natural Language Processing for Healthcare

Posted: February 4, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Human language technologies, Medical, health and genomics

Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) group is driving a healthcare revolution with AI-powered solutions like Dragon Copilot. These innovations empower healthcare professionals to enhance patient care, improve outcomes, boost productivity, and reduce burnout. Our…

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Research Intern – Applied Speech Research

Posted: February 3, 2026

Location: Berkeley, CA, US; Burlington, MA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Human language technologies, Medical, health and genomics

The Health and Life Sciences (HLS) group at Microsoft is dedicated to advancing healthcare and life sciences through innovative technology solutions, fostering collaboration, and driving impactful research to improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare operations.…

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MIRA: Medical Time Series Foundation Model for Real-World Health Data

MIRA is a foundation model for medical time-series, designed to learn a unified representation space across heterogeneous clinical datasets and support zero-shot forecasting in real-world healthcare settings. Unlike conventional time-series models that operate on fixed…

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UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning

January 27, 2026 | Sheng Zhang, Flora Liu, Guanghui Qin, Mu Wei, Hoifung Poon

AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models.

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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights

January 19, 2026

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

Microsoft Research India 2025 Key Highlights

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GI-Bench: A Panoramic Benchmark Revealing the Knowledge-Experience Dissociation of Multimodal Large Language Models in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Against Clinical Standards

Yan Zhu, Tengfei Luo, Pei-yao Fu, Zhen Zhang, Zilong Wang, Yi-Fan Qu, Zifan Geng, Jia-qi Xu, L. Yao, Li-yun Ma, Wei Su, Wei-Feng Chen, Quan-Lin Li, Shuo Wang, P. Zhou

ArXiv | January 2026, Vol abs/2601.08183

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Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies

Carlos Martinez, Md Nasir, Meghana Kshirsagar, Cass McCharen , Rae Shean, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks

Journal of Transplantation | January 2026

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The Agony of Opacity: Foundations for Reflective Interpretability in AI-Mediated Mental Health Support

Sachin R. Pendse, Darren Gergle, Rachel Kornfield, K. Kruzan, David Mohr, Jessica Schleider, Jina Suh, Annie Wescott, J. Meyerhoff

December 2025

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Research Intern – Human-AI Interaction Research and Design (Health AI)

Posted: December 16, 2025

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction, Medical, health and genomics

Microsoft Health Futures is seeking research interns with a proficient background in research at the intersection of AI and HCI, particularly in healthcare contexts. Ideal applicants will have experience working with clinical data (e.g., imaging,…