Ping Wang, Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD candidate mentored by CICB founder and Director Dr. Jonathan Haines, defended her thesis titled “Investigating Phenotypic Subtypes and Plasma Biomarkers to Advance Genetic Research on the Heterogeneity of Alzheimer Disease” on March 12, 2025. Congratulations to Dr. Wang!
CWRU Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD candidate Lauren Cruz, MPH, has been selected to give an oral presentation at the upcoming 2025 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). ARVO is the largest eye and vision research organization with more than 11,000 members representing ~60 countries across the world. Ms. Cruz is co-mentored by former […]
Two CICB-affiliated PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertations recently. Shiying Liu, Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD candidate mentored by Dr. Dana Crawford, defended her thesis titled “Genomic and Immunological Determinants in Neurodegenerative Disease: Investigation of Parkinson’s Disease Severity and Alzheimer’s Disease Status in Multiple Populations” on February 26, 2025. Razaq Durodoye, Epidemiology and Biostatistics candidate and […]
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 […]
Thien Phan Texas A&M University School of Medicine Bryan, TX Impact of lymphangiogenesis on renal phosphate handling following kidney injury Thien Phan and Joseph M. Rutkowski Overconsumption of inorganic phosphate (Pi) increases renal dysfunction, tubular cell damage, and vascular calcification, hallmarks of kidney disease. Conversely, acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) result […]
Evan Morrison University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO UBR4 mediates the quality control of a novel N-degron pathway Evan Morrison and Emma Larkin-Gero The open reading frame does more than merely encode a linear peptide sequence; it is a reservoir of regulatory information. The very beginning of the coding region plays […]
Manette Tanelus Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA But does it work? Evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of a novel Zika vaccine Manette Tanelus, Krisangel Lopez, Shaan Smith, John Muller, Dawn Auguste The flavivirus genus includes many mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance such as Yellow Fever virus, Dengue virus, and Zika virus. Zika […]
Yvonne Vasquez University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA Comparative RNA sequencing analysis identifies therapeutic targets for children with difficult-to-treat cancers and leads to remarkable disease control in an ultra-rare tumor Childhood cancer outcomes have improved over the past few decades, but patients with difficult-to-treat tumors still fare poorly. Tumor DNA profiling reveals therapeutic […]
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 Comparative RNA sequencing analysis identifies therapeutic targets for children with difficult-to-treat cancers 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, […]