Quantum for Bio grant awarded by Wellcome Leap
The Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) funding from non-profit Wellcome Leap was awarded for a proposal, led by quantum information company Infleqtion, with co-PIs Sam and Alex Pearson at UChicago , and Aram Harrow at MIT, to transform cancer care by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and quantum algorithms to drive personalized diagnostics and treatments. More details in the announcement by Infleqtion.
Hope wins outstanding TA Award
Congratulations to Hope for a well-deserved PME Outstanding TA Award!
Preprint on improving RNA velocity
Frank, Sam, and Suri Vaikuntanathan post a preprint dissecting and integrating bursty transcriptional dynamics for complex systems, improving on state-of-the-art RNA velocity methods.
Sam speaks at the UChicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science
Sam participates as a speaker in a really stimulating 3-day, inaugural meeting of the University of Chicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science.
Preprint on histology-encoded transcriptomic features of tumors
Hanna, Sam, Alex Pearson, and coauthors post a preprint on how latent transcriptional programs reveal histology-encoded tumor features spanning tissue origins.
Welcome to new group member Ruxandra
We welcome Ruxandra Tonea, first-year PhD student in molecular engineering! She will be co-advised by Sam and Tom Gajewski.
Joey reaches a milestone
Congratulations to Joey for passing his qualifying exam for the Molecular Engineering PhD program!
Immunity publication and commentary
Joseph, Sam, Bana Jabri, and coauthors publish in Immunity on how GATA4 regionalizes intestinal metabolism and barrier function to prevent immunopathology.