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CellContrast now on Patterns, a Cell Press journal. If only having single-cell but no spatial RNA, you may consider using it to infer spatial adjacency. It helps reduce false positives in detecting communicating cell pairs. We welcome issues and support customized designs. doi.org/10.1016/j.patt…

Our Lead Scientist Joshua Ho & his team attended the Innovation and Technology Commission’s Reception for I&T Awards 2024 yesterday, where the Hong Kong Chief Executive Mr John Lee congratulated the award winners of various local research and innovations. HKU Medicine Vitome Limited

Last week we celebrated the graduation of my first group of PhD students and a MBBS/MRes(Med) student since joining HKU Medicine. I am glad to have played a little part in their career.

Our #QUEST trial results are out in Nature Medicine! 3,110 patients randomized to #QLQX vs placebo. Primary composite outcome (HF hospitalization + CV death): 25.02% QLQX vs 30.03% placebo (HR 0.78, p<0.001). nature.com/articles/s4159…

Next Monday, Joshua Ho from HKU Medicine will present: Scalable analysis methods for single cell and spatial omics data and lineage tracing. ⏱️August 12, 1pm (AEST) 👉bit.ly/3WWjSXx

XClone is now online Nature Communications after long revisions w/ multiple expansions / changes: CNV>CNA, whole genome duplicate alert, a new allelic CNA simulator, & more! For Scanpy fans, you can stay in py & enjoy XClone as easy as inferCNV :) doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Nice collaboration with Kevin Tsia’s team and Yuanhua Huang. We hope this tool will make a difference in atlas scale cell analysis!

The Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health and HKU SBMS will jointly organise a seminar “Multi-modal Learning for Biomedical Image Analysis and Visualisation” on Sept 9, 2024, featuring Professor Jinman Kim from University of Sydney & Co-Principal Investigator of Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health. Details: d24h.hk/reg/ HKU Medicine

We look forward to welcoming our Australian friends to visit us in HK! I am sure we will learn how AI can be used in digital health with Prof Jinman Kim HKU Medicine HKU SBMS Sydney Precision Data Science Centre

Our Co-Principal Investigator Professor Jean Yang & Post-doctoral Fellow Dr Yue Cao from University of Sydney will take part at the “Single Cell Data Analysis Workshop - Unlocking Single Cell Spatial Omics Analyses with SCDNEY” on Sept 9, 2024. linktr.ee/hkucpos_bioinfo HKU Medicine HKU Centre for PanorOmic Sciences (CPOS)

Preprint on "BWT construction and search at the terabase scale". We can compress 100 human genomes to 11GB in 21 hours, find SMEMs with it, do affine-gap alignment and retrieve similar local haplotypes. 7.3Tb commonly sequenced bacterial genomes ⇒ 30GB arxiv.org/abs/2409.00613

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship is open for application now! Successful applicants will receive a monthly stipend of >HKD 28K plus >HKD 14K annual conference support. Interested students of high caliber, please contact me for potential nomination gradsch.hku.hk/prospective_st…

Self-diagnosis for valvular heart disease made possible? 🩺 And just with our phones? 📱 Check out #SBMS Professor Joshua Ho’s interview where he introduces this award-winning and innovative AI #HKUMed invention, at youtube.com/watch?v=ck8ry2…

Our Lead Scientist Prof. Joshua Ho and R&D team have participated in the HealthCare+ Expo Taiwan 2024 on Dec 5-8, 2024 in Taipei, as a valuable platform to showcase our award-winning innovation, Vitogram, to a wide audience. About Vitogram: vitome.com/vitogram Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health

We are recruiting a full time teaching-focused lecturer in Bioinformatics and Health Technology at HKU Medicine HKU SBMS . Check it out! jobs.hku.hk/en/job/530993/…

In addition, we are also recruiting tenure-track professoriate in these areas too! jobs.hku.hk/en/job/531031/…

At the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, our Lead Scientist Joshua Ho and his team which includes HKU students Elison Lee and Nicholas Kwok, have been presenting the team's two latest innovations, #Vitomind and #Sphygmio to a diverse international audience. Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health @HKUMed Vitome Limited