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Andre Esteva is a researcher and entrepreneur in medical AI. He currently serves as CEO and Founder of ArteraAI, a growth-stage medical AI startup that personalizes therapy for cancer patients and is now standard of care (NCCN Guidelines), reimbursed by Medicare, and widely deployed internationally. ArteraAI's inventions have been recognized as a TIME 2024 Best Invention.

He was previously the Head of Medical AI at Salesforce Research, and held engineering positions at Google Research, Sandia National Labs, and GE Healthcare. He has co-founded four companies (cumulative market cap: $2.2B).

With over 20,000 citations, his research efforts have largely focused on medical AI diagnostics and precision medicine. His publications have made the covers of Nature and Nature Medicine, and have been featured in Cell, The Lancet, NeurIPS, TIME, and similar venues. These works have been widely covered by the WSJ, Fortune, BBC, The Economist, and hundreds of other news outlets.

He obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford, conducting research in medical AI. In a landmark publication that made the cover of Nature, he was the first to show that AI could match the performance of clinicians at medical diagnostics. He finished undergraduate degrees with highest honors in Electrical Engineering and Pure Math from UT-Austin and was awarded Engineering Valedictorian (formally, the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award).

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Founder & CEO, ArteraAI
Artera develops medical AI tests that personalize therapy for cancer patients. These are multi-modal computer vision tests that take digitized histopathology images and prognosticate patient outcomes and predict response to therapy. Artera is in NCCN guidelines for the treatment of prostate cancer, it is reimbursed by Medicare, and it has raised $110M from top-tier investors over 2 rounds.
ArteraAI
Sept 2021 - Present
Head of Medical AI, Salesforce
Salesforce sells their suite of products across the space of enterprises, including healthcare systems, clinics, life sciences companies, etc. Medical AI is embedded into many of its products. Within Salesforce Research, the founding technology of Artera was incubated and eventually spun out.
Salesforce Research
Sept 2019 - Aug 2021
Founder & Managing Partner, Silverback Capital Management
I invest my own capital using hedged algorithmic AI strategies in the micro-cap market segment, achieving returns on par with venture, with a fraction of the variance. I've incorporated SBCM, an RIA, to enable friends/family to invest as well. All clients retain custody of their own capital via an account on InteractiveBrokers. Interested parties please contact andre@sbcm.ai
Jan 2019 - Present
Founder & COO, Cresta
Cresta develops generative AI software for contact centers that make customer support and sales agents more effective and productive. The company has grown to a market capitalization of $1.6B
Cresta
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

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How AI Can Help Alleviate the Stress of a Cancer Diagnosis
Andre Esteva, C. at Simba
TIME, July 2024
How AI Can Make Cancer Treatment More Equitable
Andre Esteva
TIME, October 2023
Artificial Intelligence Predictive Model for Hormone Therapy Use in Prostate Cancer
Daniel E Spratt, Siyi Tang, Yilun Sun, Huei-Chung Huang, Emmalyn Chen, Osama Mohamad, Andrew J Armstrong, Jonathan D Tward, Paul L Nguyen, Joshua M Lang, Jingbin Zhang, Akinori Mitani, Jeffry P Simko, Sandy DeVries, Douwe van der Wal, Hans Pinckaers, Jedidiah M Monson, Holly A Campbell, James Wallace, Michelle J Ferguson, Jean-Paul Bahary, Edward M Schaeffer, Howard M Sandler, Phuoc T Tran, Joseph P Rodgers, Andre Esteva, Rikiya Yamashita, Felix Y Feng
New England Journal of Medicine (Evidence), July 2023
Reporting guideline for the early-stage clinical evaluation of decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence: DECIDE-AI
Baptiste Vasey, Myura Nagendran, Bruce Campbell, David A. Clifton, Gary S. Collins, Spiros Denaxas, Alastair K. Denniston, Livia Faes, Bart Geerts, Mudathir Ibrahim, Xiaoxuan Liu, Bilal A. Mateen, Piyush Mathur, Melissa D. McCradden, Lauren Morgan, Johan Ordish, Campbell Rogers, Suchi Saria, Daniel S. W. Ting, Peter Watkinson, Wim Weber, Peter Wheatstone, Peter McCulloch \& the DECIDE-AI expert group
Nature Medicine, May 2022
Prostate cancer therapy personalization via multi-modal deep learning on randomized phase III clinical trials
Andre Esteva, Jean Feng, Douwe van der Wal, Shih-Cheng Huang, Jeffry P. Simko, Sandy DeVries, Emmalyn Chen, Edward M. Schaeffer, Todd M. Morgan, Yilun Sun, Amirata Ghorbani, Nikhil Naik, Dhruv Nathawani, Richard Socher, Jeff M. Michalski, Mack Roach III, Thomas M. Pisansky, Jedidiah M. Monson, Farah Naz, James Wallace, Michelle J. Ferguson, Jean-Paul Bahary, James Zou, Matthew Lungren, Serena Yeung, Ashley E. Ross, NRG Prostate Cancer AI Consortium, Howard M. Sandler, Phuoc T. Tran, Daniel E. Spratt, Stephanie Pugh, Felix Y. Feng & Osama Mohamad
Nature Digital Medicine, June 2022
1st most read Nature DM paper of a similar age
A quality assessment tool for artificial intelligence-centered diagnostic test accuracy studies: QUADAS-AI
Viknesh Sounderajah, Hutan Ashrafian, Sherri Rose, Nigam H Shah, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Robert Golub, Charles E Kahn, Andre Esteva, Alan Karthikesalingam, Bilal Mateen, Dale Webster, Dan Milea, Daniel Ting, Darren Treanor, Dominic Cushnan, Dominic King, Duncan McPherson, Ben Glocker, Felix Greaves, Leanne Harling, Johan Ordish, Jérémie F Cohen, Jon Deeks, Mariska Leeflang, Matthew Diamond, Matthew DF McInnes, Melissa McCradden, Michael D Abràmoff, Pasha Normahani, Sheraz R Markar, Stephanie Chang, Xiaoxuan Liu, Susan Mallett, Shravya Shetty, Alastair Denniston, Gary S Collins, David Moher, Penny Whiting, Patrick M Bossuyt, Ara Darzi
Nature Medicine, October 2021
Biological data annotation via a human-augmenting AI-based labeling system
Douwe van der Wal, Iny Jhun, Israa Laklouk, Jeff Nirschl, Lara Richer, Rebecca Rojansky, Talent Theparee, Joshua Wheeler, Jörg Sander, Felix Feng, Osama Mohamad, Silvio Savarese, Richard Socher, Andre Esteva
Nature Digital Medicine, October 2021
Psychology Today
CO-Search: COVID-19 Information Retrieval with Semantic Search, Question Answering, and Abstractive Summarization
Andre Esteva, Anuprit Kale, Romain Paulus, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenpeng Yin, Dragomir Radev, Richard Socher
Nature Digital Medicine, April 2021
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Deep learning-enabled medical computer vision
Andre Esteva, Katherine Chou, Serena Yeung, Nikhil Naik, Ali Madani, Ali Mottaghi, Yun Liu, Eric Topol, Jeff Dean & Richard Socher
Nature Digital Medicine, January 2021
3rd most read Nature DM paper of a similar age
Deep learning-enabled breast cancer hormonal receptor status determination from base-level H&E stains.
Nikhil Naik, Ali Madani, Andre Esteva, Nitish Keskar, Michael Press, Dan Ruderman, David Agus, Richard Socher
Nature Communications, November 2020
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Blog Post
Best practices for authors of healthcare-related artificial intelligence manuscripts
Sujay Kakarmath, Andre Esteva, Rima Arnaout, Hugh Harvey, Santosh Kumar, Evan Muse, Feng Dong, Leia Wedlund & Joseph Kvedar
Nature Digital Medicine, October 2020
1. Reporting guidelines for clinical trial reports for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the CONSORT-AI extension
2. Guidelines for clinical trial protocols for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the SPIRIT-AI Extension
Xiaoxuan Liu, Samantha Cruz Rivera, David Moher, Melanie J. Calvert, Alastair K. Denniston Aaron Y. Lee, Adrian Jonas, An-Wen Chan, Ara Darzi, Christopher Holmes, Christopher Yau, Hutan Ashrafian, Jonathan J. Deeks, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Livia Faes, Pearse A. Keane, Sebastian J. Vollmer, Andre Esteva , Andrew L. Beam, An-Wen Chan, Maria Beatrice Panico, Cecilia S. Lee, Charlotte Haug, Christopher J. Kelly, Christopher Yau, Cynthia Mulrow, Cyrus Espinoza, John Fletcher, David Moher, Dina Paltoo, Elaine Manna, Gary Price, Gary S. Collins, Hugh Harvey, James Matcham, Joao Monteiro, M. Khair ElZarrad, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Luke Oakden-Rayner, Melanie J. Calvert, Melissa McCradden, Pearse A. Keane, Richard Savage, Robert Golub, Rupa Sarkar & Samuel Rowley
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A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring
Seung-min Park, Daeyoun D. Won, Brian J. Lee, Diego Escobedo, Andre Esteva, Amin Aalipour, T. Jessie Ge, Jung Ha Kim, Susie Suh, Elliot H. Choi, Alexander X. Lozano, Chengyang Yao, Sunil Bodapati, Friso B. Achterberg, Jeesu Kim, Hwan Park, Youngjae Choi, Woo Jin Kim, Jung Ho Yu, Alexander M. Bhatt, Jong Kyun Lee, Ryan Spitler, Shan X. Wang & Sanjiv S. Gambhir
Nature Biomedical Engineering, April 2020
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Can skin cancer diagnosis be transformed by AI?
Andre Esteva, Eric Topol
The Lancet, November 2019
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A Guide to Deep Learning in Healthcare
Andre Esteva*, Alexandre Robicquet*, Bharath Ramsundar#, Volodymr Kuleshov#, Katherine Chou#, Mark DePristo#, Claire Cui†, Greg Corrado†, Sebastian Thrun†, Jeff Dean
*equal contribution authors
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†equal contribution authors
Nature Medicine, January 2019
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  • Ranked #8 amongst all Nature Medicine papers of a similar age
  • Covered by 5 news outlets
  • Tweeted over 600 times
In Silico Labeling: Predicting Fluorescent Labels in Unlabeled Images
Eric Christiansen*, Samuel Yang, Dale Ando#, Ashkan Javaherian#, Gaia Skibinski#, Scott Lipnick,#, Elliot Mount†, Alison O’Neil†, Kevan Shah†, Alicia K. Lee†, Piyush Goyal†, Liam Fedus†, Ryan Poplin†, Andre Esteva, Lee Rubin, Philip Nelson*, Steven Finkbeiner*
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†These authors made comparable contributions
Cell, April 2018
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  • Covered by 8 news outlets
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine: Enhancing the Expert
Andre Esteva
PhD Thesis
Stanford Archive - Winter Quarter 2018
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Dermatologist-level Classification of Skin Cancer with Deep Neural Networks
Andre Esteva*, Brett Kuprel*, Rob Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen Blau, Sebastian Thrun
*equal contribution authors
Nature Letter, January 2017
Nature News and Views
Nature Video (YouTube)
Nature Reviews Cancer
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  • Ranked #4 amongst all Nature papers of a similar age
  • Covered by over 200 news outlets
  • Tweeted over 2,000 times
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