2023 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Awards

The  Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology sponsored awards for graduate student oral presentations at the 2023 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.  This year, four students qualified for our discipline:   Yvonne Vasquez University of California Santa Cruz Title       Manette Tanelus Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Title […]

CICB’s Dr. Satya Sahoo’s graduate student Katrina Prantzalos to present at the 2024 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing!

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.

Welcome back! North Coast Conference on Precision Medicine is back, August 17th at the Cleveland Botanical Garden!

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome backWelcome back, welcome back… Welcome back to the 2023 North Coast Conference on Precision Medicine.  It’s been a minute, but we’re back in person, August 17th at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.  Check out our line-up of speakers, travel award opportunities, and general registration at http://www.icompbio.net/2023-cicb-symposium-increasing-global-diversity-in-genomics/

2022 ABRCMS, Anaheim, CA

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)

Anaheim, CA, November 9-12, 2022

Final Program

2022 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Awards

The  Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology sponsored awards for graduate student oral presentations at the 2022 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.  This year, four students qualified for our discipline:   Elizabeth Delgado University of Michigan Distinct Wnt Signaling Thresholds Required for Polyposis in the Proximal and Distal Stomach     […]

2022 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award (Rodolfo Corona Rodriguez)

Rodolfo Corona Rodriguez University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA Using Multi-view 3D Reconstruction for Understanding Descriptions of 2D Images Language provides a natural interface for humans to interact with robotic systems. Because robots are embodied in the world, they must be able to understand the links between language and their visual perception for this communication […]

2022 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award (Omar Lujano Olazaba)

Omar Lujano Olazaba San Diego State and University of California San Diego San Diego, CA The role of chemotherapy-induced fibrosis in the maintenance of tumor initiatingcells Ovarian cancer patients initially respond to cytotoxic chemotherapy but most relapse with chemoresistant disease. Research over the years supports the notion that tumor-initiating cells (TICs), a subpopulation of drug […]

2022 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award (Ester Álvarez Benedicto)

Ester Álvarez Benedicto UT Southwestern Dallas, TX Optimization of phospholipid chemistry for improved lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery of messenger RNA (mRNA) Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been established as an essential platform for nucleic acid delivery. Efforts have led to the development of vaccines that protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection using LNPs to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) […]

2022 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award (Elizabeth Delgado)

Elizabeth Delgado University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Distinct Wnt Signaling Thresholds Required for Polyposis in the Proximal and DistalStomach Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a genetic disorder characterized by the formation of precancerous polyps throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Polyps form in response to increased Wnt signaling caused by mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli […]

2021 ABRCMS, Virtual

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)

November 10-13, 2021 (Virtual)

Final Program

2021 SACNAS, Virtual

SACNAS, Virtual, 2021 Quantitative Approaches to Understand Diseases with Electronic Health Record Data Session Description:  Electronic Health Records (EHRs) capture information on a large number of people, including diverse and vulnerable individuals, and they can be used to conduct health studies. We will discuss various examples of how the quantitative disciplines of biostatistics, biomedical informatics and […]

2021 SACNAS Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award (Angeles Perez)

Lidiette Angeles Perez University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Investigating the contributions of cerebellar-hippocampal circuitry to social behaviors, cognition, and dementia About 10% of the United States population will develop age-related dementias, disorders characterized by memory loss, social impairments, and behavioral changes. Despite their high prevalence and increasing cost, there is no effective […]