Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB)-affiliated faculty member Associate Professor Fred Schumacher, PhD, and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (PQHS) Professor Erika Trapl,PhD, will be presenting their work “From Barbershop to Biopsy: Improving Access to Genetic Screening through the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project” at the American Society of Human Genetics, November 5th-9th in […]
The American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting is one of the largest conferences for human genetics and genomics research. This year’s meeting will be held November 5-9, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. Like previous years, several CICB-affiliated scientists and their trainees will be presenting their cutting-edge research spanning many topics important in human diseases and […]
Two Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB)-affiliated trainees were selected for the 2024-2026 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Human Genetics Scholars Initiative (HGSI): Razaq Durodoye and Esteban Vazquez-Hidalgo, PhD. Razaq is a graduate student in the Epidemiology & Biostatistics PhD program under the mentorship of Dr. Scott Williams. Dr. Vazquez-Hidalgo is a post-doctoral fellow […]
The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology is organizing a free workshop and symposium as part of the annual North Coast Conference on Precision Medicine. This year’s topic is “Reproducible Research Using Diverse Data Enclaves.” The morning workshop is a hands-on demonstration of tools and approaches for packaging and distribution of published code. In the afternoon, […]
Lauren Cruz, MPH, a PhD candidate in CWRU’s Epidemiology & Biostatistics program, was selected as a 2023-2024 All of Us Research Scholar Program. Ms. Cruz was selected from a competitive application process based on her proposed work in the genetics of primary open angle glaucoma in diverse populations. The 2023-2024 program, which runs from September […]
Ping Wang, PhD candidate in the Epidemiology & Biostatistics program, won a Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging for her proposal titled “Analysis of Plasma Biomarkers in the Amish to Enhance Understandings of Heritability and Genetics of Alzheimer Disease“. Ms. Wang is the second CWRU Epidemiology & Biostatistics graduate student […]
Diya Yang, a third-year graduate student in the Biomedical Health Informatics PhD program, was selected from a competitive application process for the 2024 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Advocacy Certificate for Human Genetics and Genomics Trainees (ACGT) Program. Ms. Yang will actively participate in several workshops and activities related to science advocacy, including workshops […]
The American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting is one of the largest conferences for human genetics and genomics research. This year’s meeting will be held November 1-5, 2023 in Washington, DC. Like previous years, several CICB-affiliated faculty and their graduate students will be presenting their cutting-edge research spanning many topics important in human diseases […]
CWRU Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EPBI) graduate student Katrina Prantzalos, mentored by Cleveland Institute for Biology (CICB) faculty Dr. Satya Sahoo, will be presenting her paper “MaTiLDA: An Integrated Machine Learning and Topological Data Analysis Platform for Brain Network” at the upcoming 2024 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing on the Big Island of Hawaii.
March 11, 2023 3:53pm Dr. Eric Green, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institute of Health (NIH), recently visited Cleveland Clinic and CWRU. While in Cleveland, Dr. Green gave a talk on the history and future of genomics and medicine as part of the CWRU Department of Genetics and […]
January 16, 2022 4:33pm Professor Scott Williams of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)’s Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology co-organized the upcoming International Congress of Human Genetics, scheduled for February 22-26, 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.
December 30, 2022 2:20pm Members of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)’s Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology are presenting at the upcoming Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2023: Dana Crawford, PhD Risk Prediction: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities (workshop) January 3, 2023 Jessica Cooke Bailey, PhD, MA SALUD: Scalable Applications of cLinical risk Utility and preDiction […]