LAB NEWS

Huge congratulations to Archana on an incredible achievement! After passing her DBO, she officially got her white coat this Friday. We’re so excited to celebrate this special moment with her!            

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Marcus Fabiano A. Mendes officially joined our lab as a Research Scientist!          

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!