A research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a $150,000 grant to repurpose Barasertib as a potential treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Using a computational drug discovery pipeline coupled with preclinical validation studies, Anil Jegga, DVM, MRes,
Peter S. White, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and its partner division at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, recently announced the addition of two new faculty members to the team:
A research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a $626,000 grant to test saracatinib (AZD0530), an experimental drug, as a new potential treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF). The grant will support further preclinical evaluation of this new
Pathogens, genetics, anatomy, environmental factors—how can we understand the complex mechanisms of human diseases? Jason Lu, PhD has dedicated his professional life to answering this question. With thousands of known diseases and an infinite combination of factors, it is a
A research team from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a grant to identify new subtypes of cancer through variations in gene splicing. The group, led by Nathan Salomonis, PhD of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, will apply novel computational
Krishna Roskin, PhD, a new informaticist and immunobiologist at Cincinnati Children’s, is pairing computational methods with immunobiology to improve our understanding of the human immune system. One of his big ideas is to aggregate immune system data into an atlas
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report in Genetics in Medicine two new computational methods to aid in computerized diagnosis of rare genetic diseases. Both methods are now freely available in a web application called GDDP, Genetic Disease Diagnosis
Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with Cincinnati Children’s Center for Autoimmune and Genomic Etiology and the Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology, discusses here the informatics effort behind a new study published in Nature Genetics. In the study,
Surya Prasath, PhD, an expert in imaging informatics, image processing and computer vision, has joined the biomedical informatics team at Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor. Previously with the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Computer
From making a diagnosis to tailoring treatment to an individual to someday curing disease, precision genomics is having a profound impact on healthcare. Cincinnati Children’s Center for Pediatric Genomics and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine launched Precision Genomics