LAB NEWS

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 …

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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.