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.

Congratulations to Hope for a well-deserved PME Outstanding TA Award!

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 participates as a speaker in a really stimulating 3-day, inaugural meeting of the University of Chicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science.

Hanna, Sam, Alex Pearson, and coauthors post a preprint on how latent transcriptional programs reveal histology-encoded tumor features spanning tissue origins.

We welcome Ruxandra Tonea, first-year PhD student in molecular engineering! She will be co-advised by Sam and Tom Gajewski.

Congratulations to Joey for passing his qualifying exam for the Molecular Engineering PhD program!

Joseph, Sam, Bana Jabri, and coauthors publish in Immunity on how GATA4 regionalizes intestinal metabolism and barrier function to prevent immunopathology.

Joseph, Sam, and co-authors post a preprint exploring how GATA4 regionalizes intestinal metabolism and barrier function to prevent immunopathology.

Joseph, Sam, and coauthors publish in Cell on how nociceptor neurons direct goblet cells via a CGRP-RAMP1 axis to drive mucus production and gut barrier protection.

Congratulations to Hanna on winning the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, which provides funding for two years!

Congratulations to Ryan on successfully defending his masters thesis on applications of manifold learning to single-cell transcriptomics!

Commentary in Nature Cancer by Hanna and her co-advisor Alex Pearson describes how multi-omics can create a more holistic picture of ovarian cancer.

Congratulations to Kyle and Alexis on earning their undergraduate degrees! We will miss them.

Hope Anderson is a 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellow! Congratulations!

Kyle Ruark is accepted to Harvard's PhD program in Bioengineering. We are very proud!

The Riesenfeld Group warmly welcomes its newest member, PME PhD student Joey Federico. He will be co-advised by Sam and Bana Jabri.

Congratulations to Frank on becoming a finalist in the competition for the UChicago Institute for Biophysical Dynamics Grier Prize for 2022! The purpose of this prize is to support Ph.D. students in the laboratories of trainers in the Biophysical Sciences graduate program who seek to develop new areas of research that may involve high risk or require the development of new technology.

Sam speaks at the PME 10-year Anniversary Celebration: Alumni and Industry Day

Frank is honored with the 2020 Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Sam speaks at the 2021 AI+Bio & Health Workshop hosted by the University of Chicago and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Sam is PI on a proposal awarded a UChicago Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) Discovery Challenge grant for the application of machine learning to targeted cancer therapy.

Sam Riesenfeld is a recipient of a Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award for research in applying machine learning techniques to improve personalized cancer diagnosis and treatment.