New research identifies genetic associations in the human diseasome using an endophenotype-augmented disease network ft. Jakob Woerner, Vivek Sriram (UPenn GCB), Anurag Verma (Penn Medicine), Yonghyun Nam & Dokyoon Kim (Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics) Penn IBI tinyurl.com/bdebj2c8

Great work done by Jakob Woerner Vivek Sriram and Yonghyun Nam! Uncovering genetic associations in the human diseasome using an endophenotype-augmented disease network using UK Biobank data. UPenn GCB Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics Penn IBI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37293013/

Thrilled to announce that Brenda Xiao, co-mentored by Dr. Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD and myself, has successfully defended her dissertation! Her work has been truly outstanding. Very proud of her achievements. A big congratulations to Dr. Brenda Xiao! 🎉👩‍🎓 #PhDDefense UPenn GCB Penn IBI

Excited to share our #echofirst foundation model is now published in Nature Medicine! Trained on 1M Cedars-Sinai A4C echo-report pairs, EchoCLIP has strong performance on wide range of cardiac diagnostic benchmarks, including LVEF in Stanford Medicine videos (MAE 7.1%).

Big shoutout to Jaesik Kim for an outstanding presentation, Single-cell Masked Autoencoder: An Accurate and Interpretable Automated Immunophenotyper, #CYTO2024! Congrats, Jaesik, Matei, and the team. E. John Wherry Allie Greenplate Immune Health Preprint: shorturl.at/CIR69

Exciting news! @NIHGrants is implementing changes to fellowship applications and the peer review process, beginning in January 2025. The changes will assist promising researchers along their paths to careers in biomedical research. Learn more below 👇

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AlphaFold 2 was the most significant advance for #AI in life science (predicting structure of proteins) to date. Today @nature there's AlphaFold 3 for DNA, RNA, small molecules, ions, and their interactions (spike of coronavirus below) nature.com/articles/s4158…

It was a very special moment participating in the hooding ceremony for our graduate, Dr. Brenda Xiao, co-mentored by Dr. Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD. Big congratulations, Dr. Xiao! UPenn GCB Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics🎓 #Graduation #Congrats

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Thrilled and proud to announce that my graduate student, Jacob Leiby, has successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Leiby, on this incredible achievement and the hard work you've put in. Here's to your bright future ahead! UPenn GCB Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics Penn IBI #ProudMentor

⚡️🔬📣 Excited to share our new nature article building and evaluating PathChat, a multimodal generative AI copilot and chatbot for human pathology. Article: nature.com/articles/s4158… Open Access Link: rdcu.be/dKC0r We leverage our previous success in building

A recent group photo from the Kim Lab and the Center for AI-Driven Translational Informatics (CATI). I am truly grateful to work with such amazing people! Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics Penn IBI UPenn GCB