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Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Scott Carter, along with his team Alex Shalek and Priscilla Brastiano of MIT, recently received funding from the Bridge Project for their work to characterize … Continue reading “Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success”

Lunchtime Career Chat with Peter Mueller – 1/25

A tradition began last spring in the department, linking the Colloquium Series with Career Development, and it will continue this year! Lunchtime Career Chats are specifically designed to be informal, … Continue reading “Lunchtime Career Chat with Peter Mueller – 1/25”

Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy

An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. A recent article outlines independent discoveries, led by two research … Continue reading “Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy”

Biomedical Applications of Natural Language Processing

A recent article in the Harvard Medicine Magazine describes the fruitful cross-pollination between computation, human language and biology in the face of a commonly-shared challenge; namely, the need to parse … Continue reading “Biomedical Applications of Natural Language Processing”

Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Short Course

Machine Learning and Bayesian Approaches for Data Science in Medicine January 18 | 11:00am-5:30pm Kresge G1 | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Sherri Rose, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Short Course”

Catalyst Short Course on Clinical Trials – 1/15

Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical & Translational Science Center Biostatistics Program Short Course Announcement Some Key Concepts in Design and Analysis of Early Developmental Clinical Trials   January 15, 2019 | … Continue reading “Catalyst Short Course on Clinical Trials – 1/15”

HDSI Hosts Multidisciplinary Roundtables

On November 6, members from the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI), Elsevier, and LexisNexis sat down to participate in three 90-minute multidisciplinary roundtables to identify problems of societal importance that … Continue reading “HDSI Hosts Multidisciplinary Roundtables”