The Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering welcomed 23 seventh graders from the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys for a day of STEM-related activities on June 5, 2017. The event, spearheaded by Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys teacher, Grace Park, and BME Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and […]
Two ICM core faculty members have been elected to the 2017 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, was nominated for “outstanding contributions to translational bioinformatics and computational molecular precision medicine.” Joel Bader, professor of Biomedical Engineering, […]
Collin J. Tokheim, a doctoral student in the lab of ICM core faculty member Rachel Karchin, is the lead author of a paper titled, “Evaluating the evaluation of cancer driver genes,” which was published December 13, 2016 in the Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and William […]
Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, has been recognized as a top performer at the fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation Challenge (CAGI4). She was invited to participate in the March 2016 CAGI4 Conference on the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Dr. Karchin’s research group has been […]
Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, was awarded the Goldman Center Pilot Project Grant for her proposal, “Investigation of Polyclonal Origins of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplams.” The award was granted by the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, a division of Johns Hopkins Medicine dedicated to fighting pancreatic […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, and Dr. Ruth Nussinov, Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, have launched a PLOS Computational Biology Focus Feature entitled Genome Landscapes and Phenotype Predictions of Disease. The purpose of this web-based collection of articles is to “highlight strategies to predict the […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, recently received a U24 award from the National Cancer Institute for her proposal entitled “Informatics Tools for High-throughput Analysis of Cancer Mutations.” The award will fund the Cancer-Related Analysis of VAriants Toolkit (CRAVAT), an application previously developed by the Karchin lab for […]
Hannah Carter, who completed her doctoral research in the lab of ICM core faculty member Dr. Rachel Karchin, was recently selected as one of just four recipients of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association’s 2015 Outstanding Recent Grad Award. This award is intended to honor recent JHU graduates for exceptional achievement or service in their professional […]
David Masica, assistant research professor of Biomedical Engineering, received the prize for top oral presentation in the area of Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Tumors at United European Gastroenterology’s October meeting in Barcelona, Spain for his talk entitled, “Discriminating Pancreatic Cyst Type and Grade Using Clinical Criteria: The Results of a Large Retrospective Cohort.” Dave’s […]
Science Friday will feature collaborative research from the labs of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, and Dr. Victor Velculescu, professor of Oncology and co-director of Cancer Biology, on October 2. The Nature paper entitled “The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer” focuses on computational […]
