The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has granted Benjamin Haibe-Kains the Discovery grant entitled “Ensemble framework to infer large-scale causal gene regulatory networks from transcriptomic data”
BMC Bioinformatics accepts the paper “A network model for angiogenesis in ovarian cancer"
Bioinformatics accepts the paper “Test set bias affects reproducibility of gene signatures"
The Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation/Ministry of Research & Innovation of Ontario has granted Dr. Haibe-Kains an Early Researcher Award
Drs. Anna Goldenberg, Ming Tsao and Benjamin Haibe-Kains received a Canadian Cancer Research Society (CCSRI) Innovation grant
PNAS accepts the paper “APOBEC3B expression in breast cancer reflects cellular proliferation while a deletion polymorphism is associated with immune activation”, collaboration with the Mak Lab
BHKLAB welcomes Natchar Ratanasirigulchal and Adrian She from UBC as Co-Op Students
Nature Communications accepts the paper “ZNF143 provides sequence specificity to secure chromatin interactions at gene promoters”, collaboration with the Lupien Lab
BHKLAB welcomes Dr. Venkata Manem as Postdoctoral Fellow
BMC Genomics accepts the paper “Transfer of clinically relevant gene expression signatures in breast cancer: from Affymetrix microarray to Illumina RNA-Sequencing technology”, collaboration wit the Sotiriou Lab
Deena Gendoo will be presenting a poster at the EMBL-EBI/Wellcome Trust Workshop on Resources for Computational Drug Discovery 2014, UK.
Benjamin Haibe-Kains is now officially part of the MAQC consortium
The Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute has granted Benjamin Haibe-Kains a Junior Investigator Grant Panel Travel Award.
The Cancer Research Society funds the project entitled "Assessment if biomedical relevance of molecular subtyping in breast and ovarian cancers”
BHKLAB member Nicolas Bouchard was awarded the 2014 Maria and Lino Ermacora scholarship from Institut de Recheres Chlinique de Montréal for his MSc studies.
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Elham Salehi as a new postdoc in the BHKLAB. Elham will be working on developing a novel approach for high-throughput discovery of drug combinations using large-scale pharmacogenomic data. Welcome Elham!
Visiting postdoctoral researcher Dr. Catharina Olsen was awarded the distinguished Solvay Award. Congratulations!