Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, is scheduled to speak at APGA 2013. The meeting entitled “Automated Personal Genome Analysis for Clinical Advisors: Challenges and Solutions” will be held at the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies in the School of Computer Science Complex at Carnegie […]

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The Institute for Computational Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Rachel Karchin has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2013. Dr. Karchin holds appointments with the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, as […]

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Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine recently received an award of $695K for 3 years from the National Science Foundation. The award, which is part of the NSF’s Advances in Biological Informatics program is entitled “ABI Innovation: Predicting the combined impact of multiple mutations on protein […]

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Earlier this year, research by Dr. Rachel Karchin was featured in a case study for the “TGCA in Action” section on the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Genome Atlas website. The article titled “New Tool Combines Many Types of Genomic Data” discusses the TOPPER software tool which is being developed by Dr. Karchin’s lab in a […]

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The Karchin Lab at the Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University recently released the first of a suite of educational video games developed with outreach support from the National Science Foundation. The BioHazards project “allows students and science enthusiasts to prevent and cure diseases in a virtual, gaming environment. [BioHazards] is focused on the development […]

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Hannah Carter, a Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2012 Siebel Scholarship. Students are nominated for the Siebel Scholarship on the basis of academic and research excellence and leadership activity during their graduate school career. The scholarship itself is $35000 to supplement the student’s stipend in their final […]

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From January 4-7, Dr. Rachel Karchin attended the 2011 Session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. While there she co-chaired a workshop on the “Identification of Aberrant Pathway and Network Activity from High-throughput data”. More information on the Symposium can be found on […]

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The Karchin Lab received a MOLLY award for outstanding contribution to the first CAGI (Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation) meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10, 2010. The CAGI project is “a community experiment to objectively assess computational methods for predicting the phenotypic impacts of genomic variation”. More details on the project […]

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In the October 8 Hopkins Medicine news release “Computer Predicts Pancreatic Cancer”, research by Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin published in the September 15 issue of Cancer Biology and Therapy was highlighted. From the text: “Using a computer program, researchers from Johns Hopkins have predicted which changes in the DNA code may cause pancreatic cells to […]

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Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine gave her keynote presentation at the Second Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology. Her topic covered “High throughput annotation of somatic mutations in cancer: computational challenges”. The workshop took place June 24-25, 2010 at The Norwegian Radium Hospital […]

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