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Biswas Family Foundation Transformative Computational Biology Grant Awardees: Milken Institute Press Release
The Biswas Family Foundation and the Milken Institute announce the five research teams selected to receive funding in the first cycle of the Transformative Computational Biology Grant Program. Nearly $14 million has been allocated to projects utilizing computational tools in various fields such as cardiovascular disease diagnosis, precision oncology treatments, improving clinical data sets, and drug repurposing all aiming to bridge the gap between research and practice in healthcare.
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Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neighborhood Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Identifies Patterns and Spatially-Variable Genes in Large-Scale Spatial Transcriptomics Data
Katherine Pollard, PhD, Director of Data Science & Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Multimodal AI Predicts Clinical Outcomes of Drug Combinations from Preclinical Data
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Cellular Behavior Analysis from Live-Cell Imaging of TCR T Cell-Cancer Cell Interactions
Katherine Pollard, PhD, Director of Data Science & Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Signals in the Cells: Multimodal and Contextualized Machine Learning Foundations for Therapeutics
Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
ReXamine-Global: A Framework for Uncovering Inconsistencies in Radiology Report Generation Metrics
Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Quantized Multi-Task Learning for Context-Specific Representations of Gene Network Dynamics
Katherine Pollard, PhD, Director of Data Science & Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Katherine Pollard, PhD, Director of Data Science & Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes
Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
ReXGradient-160K: A Large-Scale Publicly Available Dataset of Chest Radiographs with Free-text Reports
Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
ReXVQA
Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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