The consensus is clear: there is a need for diversity in precision medicine research. Most of the current dialogue on diversity centers on study populations. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which began in earnest in 2007 with publication of the landmark Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium study of seven common diseases (PMIC2719288) and a trio of […]
The Translational Bioinformatics Conference (TBC) was established in 2011 as a partnership between Asian and US investigators with the goal of bringing together scientists with the diverse expertise that contribute to the new and growing field of translational bioinformatics. The first conference, led by Dr. Ju Han Kim, Professor and Chair of the Division of […]
The leaves are falling and there’s a crispness to the morning air. I suppose that means it’s time for a Crawford lab summer update! After looking back at my summer calendar, I am left wondering what I did. To be sure, it was filled with regular stuff. You know, grants, papers, and the occasional study […]
As I stare at my calendar, I am realizing that classes start in two and a half weeks. Geez, where did the summer go? Wait—what happened to spring??? Well, technically I did post about the 2017 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) and the 2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science before 2018 rolled around, so I […]
Informatics in all its different forms has without a doubt risen in popularity over the last five to ten years. Informatics is not exactly new and as a discipline or professional society has been around for several decades, evolving with the increase in the importance of computers. The recent surge in its popularity and cross-disciplinary […]
Our second annual symposium featured members of the Henrietta Lacks family Shirley Lacks and Veronica (Robinson) Spencer. Ms. Lacks is the sister-in-law of the late Henrietta Lacks, and she was good friends with Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Veronica (Robinson) Spencer is the great-granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks. The Lacks family story has become and continues to be […]
It’s the first day of spring, so you know what that means! It means I haven’t posted since winter! Grant, papers, classes…what can I say? I have been very busy, indeed! But, there’s always time for PSB. Always. If you have read my previous posts, you know all about PSB. For the uninitiated, the Pacific […]
We have now organized two symposia focusing on big data and precision medicine topics with a third one in the works focusing on measuring exposures. In an effort to sustain the dialog initiated by each of these events, we are hosting a blog on this website. This blog will feature short opinion pieces and articles […]
In biomedical research, “precision medicine” is the buzz-word or phrase du jour permeating the latest conference abstracts, manuscripts, and grant proposals. Precision medicine is broadly defined as using a data-driven approach to offer tailored treatments or prevention strategies to patients. The recent popularity of the precision medicine term is likely due to the 2015 White […]
We are well into 2017, and I have yet to post an update on the lab’s accomplishments as of the end of 2016. If you were a human being like the rest of us living in 2016, you probably feel the same as many of us about that year. It was a year very much […]
We have a trio of open faculty positions available here at CWRU. The positions are within the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, with some having the opportunity for an additional appointment in the Institute of Computational Biology: Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty with Expertise in Biomedical Data Science Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Cancer Epidemiology Director of the MPH […]