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2020
November 19, 2020
Jeremy Goecks, open science leader at OHSU, funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and NCI.
June 30, 2020
Paul Spellman and Joe Gray receive 2020 AACR Team Science Award.
June 29, 2020
SOM Paper of the Month goes to the Nellore/Thompson labs.
May 15, 2020
In an op-ed published by The Conversation, Austin Nguyen, Abhinav Nellore, Ph.D., and Reid Thompson, M.D., Ph.D., describe their computational biology research, which indicates genetic differences could lead some people to have more severe coronavirus symptoms.
May 8, 2020
How scientists are mapping the cancer ecosystem to find cures. Cancer is more than just tumor cells driven by gene mutations.
May 1, 2020
Gov. Brown and OHSU partner on research study to inform approach for reopening Oregon. Dr. Paul Spellman will co-lead the project, and Dr. Kyle Ellrott and his team will play a big part in the study.
April 17, 2020
Austin Nguyen, Julianne David, Sean K. Maden, Mary A. Wood, Benjamin R. Weeder, Abhinav Nellore and Reid Thompson, published "Human leukocyte antigen susceptibility map for SARS-CoV-2", American Society for Microbiology (DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00510-20)
March 4, 2020
Luke Ternes received a travel award of up to $2,500 to present at the JCA-AACR conference.
March 2, 2020
Geoff Schau received a fellowship for the Giersch Conference & Summer School in Frankfurt am Main. Theoretical and Experimental Quantitative Cell Biology
March 2, 2020
Erik Burlingame received a fellowship for the Giersch Conference & Summer School in Frankfurt am Main. Theoretical and Experimental Quantitative Cell Biology
March 1, 2020
Xiangnan Guan received a travel award to the Thirteenth Annual Prostate Cancer Program Retreat in Florida.
February 17, 2020
Young Hwan Chang and Tina Ghodsi Asnaashari (PI: Langer) received a CEDAR Pilot award “Developing 3D bioprinted tissue models to interrogate epithelial-stromal crosstalk in early breast cancer“
February 7, 2020
Paul Spellman, Ph.D., jointly supervised an international research study that shows errors in DNA trigger the start of some deadly cancers that can arise a decade or more before tumors appear. Cancer genome study reveals big window for early detection
February 1, 2020
Kevin Watanabe-Smith (PI) received an NIH K99/R00 award “Assessing the power of primary drug-screens to predict clinical response”
Olga Nikolova (sub-PI) received a CSBC Dream Grant subaward “Single-cell RNA-seq data imputation”
January 1, 2020
Zheng Xia (sub-PI) received an NIH R01 subaward “Molecular Pathogenesis of Myotonic Dystophy”
January 1, 2020
Young Hwan Chang (Co-PI with Vu) received a Knight Pilot award “Image-based Machine Learning for Comprehensive Identification of Drug Combination Effectiveness on Immune Cell-mediated Tumor Cell Kill”
December 1, 2019
Zheng Xia (PI) received a Medical Research Foundation award “Single-cell Level Analysis of Dynamic Alternative Polyadenylation in the Mammalian Immune System”
October 9, 2019
Tina Ghodsi and Geoff Schau and team received a West Coast Symposium award for “In silico optimization of drug treatments in triple negative breast cancer”
October 8, 2019
Ellrott Lab researcher Jordan Lee receives the West Coast Symposium junior investigator project "Time delay and tumor dissociation method alters gene expression in immune cells and fibroblasts, that ultimately convolutes data interpretations”.
September 12, 2019
Emek Demir (MPI with Sears & Coussens) and team received a U01 “Comparative analysis between patient-derived models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas and matched tumor specimens.”
August 5, 2019
Zheng Xia (PI) received an R21 “HaemAPA: Characterizing Alternative Polyadenylation in Human Blood Cells”
July 1, 2019
Graduate students Geoffrey Schau and Erik Burlingame compete in InventOR and win the Impact Award for having the most potential impact on the market and in peoples’ lives. View article
June 28, 2019
Abhinav Nellore (PI), Reid Thompson (PI), Mary Wood (Researcher) and Julianne (Graduate Student) received continued funding for their Knight Pilot “Development of antibodies to cancer-specific peptides arising from novel RNA splicing variation.” (PIs: Nellore and Ibsen)
January 3, 2019
Young Hwan Chang (PI) receives OCTRI pilot award "paradigmSHIFT: Speedy Histopathological-to-Immunofluorescent Translation of Clinical Images Through Deep Learning."
January 1, 2019
Zheng Xia (Co-I) received a Prostate Cancer Foundation subcontract “Fecal Microbiota Transplant to Enhance Response to PD-1 Inhibition in Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer“ (PI: Amy Moran)
December 24, 2018
Abhinav Nellore, Reid Thompson, Mary Wood and Julianne David receive CEDAR pilot award "Development of antibodies to cancer-specific peptides arising from novel RNA splicing variation." (PIs: Ibsen/Nellore)
December 1, 2018
Zheng Xia (Co-PI) and Duan-Chen Sun receive CEDAR seed grant “The earliest events in the failure of tumor-reactive T cells” (PI: Munks)
November 14, 2018
September 21, 2018
Jeremy Goecks (sub PI) and Kyle Ellrott receive NIH U24 subaward “Implementing the Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL)”
September 19, 2018
Jeremy Goecks (co-PI), Emek Demir, Young Hwan Chang, and Ozgun Babur receive NIH U2C award "Omic and Multidimensional Spatial Atlas of Metastatic Breast and Prostate Cancers” (PI: Gray)
September 17, 2018
Young Hwan Chang (PI) receives Phase II SBIR subaward "Ultra-High Content Analysis (UHCA) of Single Cells in Tissues: 60+ channel immunofluorescence labeling kits and companion imaging." (subPI: Gray)
September 11, 2018
Jeremy Goecks (PI) and Kyle Ellrott receive NIH U24 award "A Federated Galaxy for user-friendly large-scale cancer genomics research”
September 1, 2018
Zheng Xia (PI) receives Collins Medical Trust award "Computational analysis of dynamic alternative polyadenylation usages in immune system"
September 1, 2018
Young Hwan Chang (PI) receives CRUK OHSU Spark award "Deciphering the immune microenvironment in esophageal adenocarcinoma and pre-cancerous lesions to a single cell resolution”
July 1, 2018
Young Hwan Chang (PI) receives Brenden-Colson pilot grant "TIME* matters in pancreatic cancer (*tumor immune microenvironment)”
June 1, 2018
Zheng Xia (PI) receives NIH K01 award "In Silico Screening of Alternative Polyadenylation Regulators in Cancers”
March 16, 2018
Emek Demir (sub PI) receives Darpa subaward "An Automated Scientific Discovery Framework (ASDF) for Mechanistic Reasoning Across Complex Data"
March 1, 2018
Reid Thompson and Zheng Xia receive CEDAR pilot award "Single cell TCR sequencing for early detection of breast cancer” (PI: Rozanov)
February 21, 2018
January 1, 2018
Zheng Xia (PI) receives Children’s Leukemia Research Association award "CLAPA: Characterizing Alternative Polyadenylation in Childhood Leukemia”
September 21, 2017
Young Hwan Chang receives NIH SBIR subaward "Emergency ID NET Surveillance Network” (sub PI: Gray)
September 1, 2017
Adam Margolin (Co-PI) and Emek Demir receive NIH U01 award "Functional Genomic Discovery of Pathway Targeted and Immune Modulatory Therapeutic Combinations in Hematologic Malignancies” (PI: Druker)
August 15, 2017
August 1, 2017
Young Hwan Chang receives NIH R01 award "New Technology for Tracking Proteins by Light and Electron Microscopy” (PI: Beatty)
August 1, 2017
Abhinav Nellore (sub PI) receives NIH R01 subaward "Analysis of genomics datasets at a massive scale”
August 1, 2017
July 1, 2017
Jeremy Goecks (sub PI) receives NSF subaward "ABI Development: Leveraging NSF-Funded Cyberinfrastructure"
July 1, 2017
Emek Demir (sub PI) receives NIH U41 subaward "Pathway Commons: Research Resources for Biological Pathways"
June 25, 2017
Adam Margolin (sub PI) and Kyle Ellrott receive NIH U2C subaward "Innovation through collaboration at the intersection of childhood development and cancer: a platform for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Data Resource Center"
June 1, 2017
Young Hwan Chang receives CEDAR seed grant "Harnessing Circulating Hybrid Cell Biology and Ultrasensitive Single Cell Imaging Technology for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer” (PI: Wong)
June 1, 2017
Emek Demir receives CEDAR seed grant "Target and Biomarker Identification Through Mapping of Signaling Networks that Control the Evolution of Pre-malignant Epithelial Lesions” (PI: Muschler)
May 25, 2017
May 22, 2017
Adam Margolin (Co-PI), Emek Demir, and Young Hwan Chang receive NIH U54 award "Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating Heterogeneity” (PI: Gray)
May 1, 2017
Emek Demir (sub PI) receives Darpa subaward "Biocuration Development Platform"
January 1, 2017
Jeremy Goecks (sub PI) receives NIH U41 subaward "Democratization of Data Analysis in Life Sciences Through Galaxy"
December 15, 2016
Jeremy Goecks (sub PI) receives NIH R25 subaward "A Genome Browser On-Ramp to Engage Biologists with Big Data"
September 1, 2016
Adam Margolin (Co-PI), Emek Demir, and Kyle Ellrott receive NIH U24 award "OHSU Center for Specialized Data Analysis as Part of the GDAN” (PI: Spellman)
September 1, 2016
January 12, 2016
Kyle Ellrott (sub PI) receives NIH subaward “NCI Dream Challenge"
January 4, 2016
Emek Demir (sub PI) receives Darpa subaward "Develop Cancer Driving Signaling Pathway Analysis, Knowledge Representation, Assembly and Reasoning Algorithms"
September 3, 2015
June 1, 2015
Kyle Ellrott (sub PI) receives NIH R01 subaward "BIGDATA: Mid-scale DCM: DA: ESCE: Discovering Molecular Processes”
January 1, 2015
Adam Margolin (PI) receives Intel grant “Collaborative Cancer Cloud"
July 1, 2014
Adam Margolin (sub PI) receives NIH P01 subaward "Self Renewal and Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells"
July 1, 2014
Adam Margolin receives St. Baldrick’s Foundation subaward "The AML Federation Project: From Individualized Systems Medicine Approaches to Coordinated Pediatric AML Treatment Options” (sub PI: Druker)
July 1, 2014
Adam Margolin receives AACR subaward "Transforming pancreatic cancer from a death sentence into a treatable disease” (sub PI: Coussens)
May 1, 2014
Adam Margolin (sub PI) receives NIH U01 subaward "CTDD: OHSU Subaward – An Integrated Computational and Functional Genomics Discovery Engine for Preclin"