Recent News
New Publication from Johnson Lab and Collaborators
A new publication on profiling Tuberculosis Signatures from the Johnson lab is now available in BMC Infectious Diseases (part of Springer Nature). Click here to read the full article.
Dr. Sarah Mazzilli to Present at The Innovator’s Journey: Embracing Creativity & Discomfort in Pursuit of Impact
Source: Boston University Office of Research Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 3-4:30 pm In this series of lightning talks, faculty innovators from across BU schools and colleges will share their diverse paths from invention to market to impact. Featured speakers include Dr. Sarah Mazzilli, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of... More
Dr. Stefano Monti and Collaborators Awarded NIDCR R01 Grant
Source: Boston University School of Medicine Researchers at the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and the School of Medicine have received a five-year, $3.2 million National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) R01 grant. This grant will fund research into the role of b-catenin/CBP signaling in the epigenetic... More
Past Event – Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama at BU AHA-GV Lecture
On January 25, 2021 from 2:00-3:00PM, CBM's Vijaya Kolachalama presented "Unsupervised Machine Learning" at the Bu AHA-GV Lecture. Click here for additional lecture materials.
Maria Perez Cardenas joins CBM as Scientific Program Manager
Maria Perez Cardenas, PhD has joined the Section of Computational Biomedicine as a Scientific Program Manager to support ongoing and new research in early detection of lung cancer with Drs. Spira, Lenburg and Billatos. Maria received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD and most... More
Dr. Joshua Campbell Receives Award from Lung Cancer Research Foundation
Joshua Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor has received an award from the Lung Cancer Research Foundation. The award will provide support for two years to research “Determining differences in immunotherapy outcomes and immunobiology in African American patients with NSCLC”.
New Publication – Contextualized Protein-Protein Interactions
Source: Patterns Highlights We present PPI Context: contextualization of existing literature-curated PPIs A resource for filtering PPIs by cell-line information mined from reporting studies A fast and flexible pipeline implementing the presented data mining method The Bigger Picture Existing literature-curated protein-protein interaction (PPI) databases usually aggregate cell-type-agnostic interactions, yet PPIs are dependent on environmental conditions. Thus, More
Evans Days of Research – Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama Receives Outstanding Research Collaborator Award
Vijaya B. Kolachalama, PhD, FAHA, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Computational Biomedicine was awarded an Outstanding Research Collaborator Award as part of the Annual Department of Medicine Evans Days. Dr. Kolachalama’s research interests include phenotyping neurodegeneration, digital pathology, as well as musculoskeletal and cardiovascular diseases, with a... More
Dr. Joshua Campbell Receives Shipley Prostate Cancer Pilot Grant Award
Source: BU School of Medicine Dr. Joshua Campbell, Assistant Professor Medicine/Computational Biomedicine, received a Shipley Prostate Cancer Pilot Grant Award. Please see below for more information on Dr. Campbell's joint project with Drs. Gerald Denis and Andrew Emili: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs), which constitute an essential step in cell biology that, when disrupted, More
Bioinformatics Analyst – Darren Chiu
Darren Chiu, of the Mazzilli Lab, recently transitioned from Research Technician to Bioinformatics Analyst. Before joining the lab, Darren completed his master’s degree in Immunology at Harvard University, where his research focused on discovering non-coding functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with autoimmune diseases and investigating the regulatory mechanism of... More