Neha Abraham, a Pitt undergraduate, is joining the group as a Programmer / Data Analyst. Neha will lead the group’s effort for bioinformatic data analysis and dissemination of methods and results. Welcome aboard Neha!
Andres R Lopez Rivas from University of Puerto Rico, an iBRIC summer student, is joining our group to work on melanoma. Welcome Andres!
Congratulations to Lucas, who was hooded today and became officially Doctor of Philosophy. It was a great trip and we now wish him the best as he continues on his career path. (Here, Takis is standing between Lucas and Silvia, a Comp Bio graduate, whose Thesis Committee he served.)
Ivy presented in a Poster Discussion session in American Thoracic Society annual conference her findings on the causes of FEV1 longitudinal change in COPD patients. Takis also presented a poster with the results on the integration and causal analysis of IPF histopathology patterns. Her poster generated a lot of fruitful discussion
We will investigate the causes of pathophysiology and progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by analyzing existing TOPMed clinical and omics datasets. COPD is the third leading cause of death and a major cause of disability and health care costs in the US. The tools and methods developed through this grant …