Congratulations to Dr. Jun Won Kim for receiving National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT  

Congratulations to Michal Kazmierski for receiving the prestigious Medical Biophysics Excellence Award! 

Sisira Kadambat Nair presents her poster on ToxicoGx: R package for analysis of Large Scale Toxicogenomics Datasets at BioC 2020 conference. Here is a link to her presentation: 

https://f1000research.com/slides/9-719 

Dr. Arvind Singh Mer presents his findings on Patient Derived Xenografts Based Pharmacogenomics for Precision Medicine at ISMB 2020 conference 

Michal Kazmierski presents his poster on Radiomic response evaluation of recurrent or metastatic squamous cell cancer patients receiving Pembrolizumab on KEYNOTE-012 study at ASCO 2020 in Chicago 

Dr. Hassan Mahmoud presents his poster "Omics Complementary Role for Biomarker Discovery." at the Cancer AI & Big Data Conference.

Congragulations to the new PhD in town, Dr.Ali Madani Tonekaboni! He was awarded his doctorate on Feburary 19th for his thesis on Computational Models for Mapping Transcriptome andEpigenome to Human Phenotypes.

Dr. Hassan Mahmoud presented his poster on Drug sensitivity prediction modelling from genomics, transcriptomics and inferred protein activity at the AACR.

Dr. Hassan Mahmoud Mohamed presents his poster at the annual Terry Fox Research Institute’s Ontario Node Research Symposium

Congragulations to our very own Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains who was awarded with the Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize for a young investigator who has made outstanding contributions to basic biomedical research. As the Research at Canadian Cancer Society said on their official twitter page "Dr Benjamin Haibe-Kains, a leader in the field of computational medicine whose work has advanced precision medicine for cancer".

link: https://twitter.com/ccsresearch/status/1196437221391380480?s=12

Microsoft awarded Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains with an award as a show appreciation of the partnership between BHK lab and Mircrosoft's Azure project.

A team from the BHK lab composed of Dr. Hassan Mahmoud, Dr. Soheil Jahangiri Tazehkhand and Ian Smith presented their findings in a poster presetation at the 5th CCRC Conference. Dr. Mahmoud presented his poster on Transcription factor drug sensitivity model based on master regulators and protein abundance.

Dr. Hassan Mahmoud presents Biomarker discovery using inferred proteomics and master regulators at TorBUG talk.

Sisira Kadambat Nair presents "ToxicoGx – An R platform for integrated toxicogenomics data analysis" at OpenRiskNet final workshop in Amsterdam. Here is a link to her presentation:  

https://storage.googleapis.com/openrisknet/events/2019/11/04/ToxicoGx_Sisira-WS-241019.pdf

Congratulations to Denis Keimakh and Joseph Marsilla for winning the Princess Margaret Foundation Graduate Fellowships In Cancer Research Award for 2019-2020.

Dr. Haibe-Kains Presents "Computational Approaches for Biomarker Discovery Using Cancer Model Systems" at Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval.

Congragulations to Petr Smirnov for recieving the prestigious CIHR Doctoral Award!

Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains Presents "Computational Approaches for Biomarker Discovery Using Cancer Model Systems" at Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval.