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Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine News & Announcements
Displaying announcements from the past three years.
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Published on Nov 8, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Research news highlights the value of serum cytokine panels in disease management and preclinical work to develop a mRNA vaccine to treat and prevent <em>C. diff</em>.
Published on Oct 11, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
In The News this week, we celebrate CHOP being named a top children’s hospitals in the nation for the 17th consecutive year.
Published on Aug 15, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
In this Snapshot Science, researchers use high-throughput assays to characterize thousands of variants associated with Alagille syndrome.
Published on Jul 15, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers identify biomarkers for early detection of high-grade ovarian cancer.
Published on Jun 14, 2024 in Press Releases
Researchers announced the discovery of a novel immune-based biomarker that could pave the way for potential lifesaving early detection of high-grade ovarian cancer.
Published on Mar 15, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
This week, CHOP announces two new Frontier Programs, and researchers define the origins of hematopoietic failure in Fanconi anemia.
Published on Mar 7, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Students from Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences share their CHOP experiences through the “Researchers of the Future” program.
Published on Mar 5, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Two global teams are developing solid cancer drugs and understanding T-cell receptors.
Published on Jan 29, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
With funding from the National Cancer Institute’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, CHOP researchers are identifying new immunotherapy targets.
Published on Dec 8, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Our research news roundup highlights the improvements made in CAR therapies through structural biology discoveries and cost reduction strategies.
Published on Dec 1, 2023 in Press Releases
Identifying “backbones” that link complexes can help maximize CAR therapy across different variants and tumor types.
Published on Oct 13, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In our weekly news roundup, Dr. Beverly Davidson received a $1 million grant to study Huntington’s disease. This and more on Cornerstone.
Published on Oct 9, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have developed a computational tool to determine which cells in patient tumor samples receive mitochondria from T cells.
Published on Aug 15, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have developed a versatile and low-cost technology for targeted sequencing of full-length RNA molecules.
Published on May 26, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In this week’s news roundup, CHOP’s Department of Pediatrics ranked No 1. in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Pediatrics Programs’ for medical schools.
Published on May 17, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP and UCLA researchers have created a tool that can discover tumor antigens derived from alternative RNA splicing, expanding the pool of cancer immunotherapy targets.
Published on May 9, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Mustafa Mir, PhD, in the Center for Computation and Genomic Medicine, was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar.
Published on Mar 31, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In part two of our series celebrating Women’s History Month, meet more women at CHOP working in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine fields.
Published on Mar 23, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers in the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine developed a new tool to read RNA more accurately.
Published on Feb 3, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In this news roundup, we celebrate research tools new and old, from RNA sequencing to gene editing to the best tool of all: collaboration.
Published on Feb 2, 2023 in Announcements
The CHOP Center for Computation and Genomic Medicine Presents its Spring 2023 Lecture Series. All in-person events take place at the Hub for Clinical Collaboration, First Floor, Room 1620.
Published on Jan 20, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have developed a new computational tool that can more accurately discover and quantify RNA molecules from these error-prone long-read RNA sequencing data.
Published on Dec 29, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
These six Cornerstone stories garnered the most engagements from our CHOP Research Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn channels.
Published on Sep 13, 2022 in Announcements
CCGM Lecture Series - Sept-Nov 2022.
Published on Jul 18, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers develop tool that accelerates DNA methylation characterization.
Published on Jun 29, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP scientists are part of a Cancer Grand Challenges team receiving $25 million to tackle solid tumors.
Published on Jun 24, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s In the News features endocrinology research, news on gene therapy in blood disorders, CAR T-cell therapy, and more.
Published on Jun 20, 2022 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have revealed the molecular mechanics of a cell-surface molecule that is a potential immunotherapy target.
Published on Jun 16, 2022 in Press Releases
Four CHOP researchers are part of a world-class research team that will receive $25 million to study solid tumors in children, funded by Cancer Grand Challenges.
Published on Jan 11, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researcher, Mustafa Mir, PhD, receives New Innovator Award for advancing live imaging technology to view embryonic gene regulation.
Published on Oct 15, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s news roundup includes a podcast with the CSO, new studies regarding COVID-19 effects, golf cart injuries, and new NIH funding.
Published on May 14, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features Ran Barzilay, PhD, and the results of the latest COVID-19 Resilience Project from the Lifespan Brain Institute.
Published on May 7, 2021 in Announcements
Yi Xing, PhD, has been named as the next Executive Director of the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi).
Published on Apr 2, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features Kathrin Bernt, MD, and Richard Aplenc, MD, PhD, MSCE, recipients of Children’s Cancer Research Fund Awards.
Published on Mar 10, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
We feature seven more women in STEM at CHOP nominated by leaders of their Centers of Emphasis.
Published on Mar 9, 2021 in Press Releases
The researchers described how a single nucleotide change can have large downstream effects, publishing their findings in Genome Biology.
Published on Mar 8, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Nominated by their Centers of Emphasis, women in STEM share what drives them, their words of wisdom, and why they do what they do.
Published on Mar 5, 2021 in Announcements
The CHOP Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine Presents a Lecture Series for 2021-22.
Published on Feb 22, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis led a group a researchers to develop a game-changing new method for nuclear magnetic resonance data analysis.
Published on Jan 15, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers eager to understand circRNAs’ unique set of properties and their functional roles.
Published on Feb 28, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
New research highlights skin-to-skin care in neonatal cardiac surgery and lipid screening lacking in children at risk for atherosclerosis.
Published on May 29, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
The 2019 Scientific Symposium focused on the advances CHOP researchers have made in the booming area of genomics and data science.
Published on Mar 26, 2019 in Press Releases
A research team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has developed an innovative computational tool offering researchers an efficient method for detecting the different ways RNA is pieced together (spliced) when copied from DNA.
How Does a New Computational Method Transform Public Big Data Into Knowledge of Transcript Splicing?
Published on Mar 26, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
A new deep-learning model predicts the behavior of splicing regulation, helping researchers to increase their experiments’ efficiency.
Published on Mar 4, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers with the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine gain insights into genetic variants and RNA processing.
Published on Dec 31, 2018 in Cornerstone Blog
We peeked into our data to see which research stories captivated our readers the most in 2018: Here are our top six.
Published on Nov 13, 2018 in Cornerstone Blog
Synthesizing diverse data sets from many sources comes with vast opportunities to change pediatric medicine.
Published on Apr 20, 2018 in Cornerstone Blog
Learn about new grants and awards for our cancer researchers in this week's edition of In the News.
Published on Apr 6, 2018 in Press Releases
Yi Xing, PhD, an internationally prominent scientist in computational biology and genomics, will join Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on Sept. 1 to establish a new center dedicated to harnessing big data and genomic technologies in discovering new treatment approaches…