In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8th, six award-winning female scientists nominated Dr. Karchin (nominated by Dr. Jean Fan) along with five other exceptional women as “Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science“. Congratulations to Dr. Karchin for her lasting guidance and impact on generations of researchers. …
We are proud to share that Dr. Karchin is announced as an ISCB Fellow Class of 2025. This program recognizes individuals who advance bioinformatics though their leadership and innovative research. Congratulations to Dr. Karchin for this achievement!
Watch Dr. Sena’s interview about a metastatic prostate cancer case report in which PICTograph was used to model the outgrowth of a subclone with acquired resistance to targeted therapies. Read the paper from NPJ Precision Oncology here: Intratumoral heterogeneity drives acquired therapy resistance in a patient with metastatic prostate cancer.
Kathryn Jung was awarded the second place prize for her poster “A Multiple Instance Learning Approach for Predicting MHC Class I Epitope Presentation and Neo-Epitope Immunogenicity” at the 2025 Magnet Research Convention held at Montgomery Blair High School, judged by Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS). Congratulations Kathryn!
Kiki Zhang will attend the BMES annual meeting on October 23-26 2024! She will present her work on spatiotemporal pancreatic cancer evolution using an agent-based model.
Congratulations to our lab member, Sabahat Rahman! She was recently named an ARCS Undergraduate Danaher Corporation Named Scholar for 2024-25 by the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation. She will also present at the National Academy of Sciences at the scholar awards’ reception in October!
Workshop/discussion about increasing the transparency of variant effect prediction at the Cancer Genomics Consortium Unconference, August 3, 2024 in St. Louis, Missouri. Read more here: https://github.com/griffithlab/civic-meeting/issues/69
Clockwise from Upper Left: Dr. Hannah Carter (Class of 2012) Promoted to Full Professor at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Chris Douville (Class of 2017) Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins receives Johns Hopkins President’s Innovation Award. Dr. Josue Samoya (Postdoc 2009-2011) is Director of Computational Oncology at AbbVie. Dr. David Masica (Research Faculty 2013-2018 …
AI in Personalized Immunotherapies: AI in Immuno-oncology The vision of personalized medicine based on tumor-specific biomarkers comes closer to reality with each new scientific discovery. With the advent of AI, researchers now have a novel and expansive tool that can better analyze large-scale data sets for actionable markers that can fuel immunotherapy development and discovery. …
Dr. Jiaying Lai in front of her poster “Evaluation of Simulation Methods for Tumor Subclonal Reconstruction” at the NCI’s SSACB 2024 meeting in Bethesda, Maryland.