Research

Meet Dr. Rachel Murphy

Meet Dr. Rachel Murphy

Drs. Rachel Murphy (pictured) and Andrew Roth (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Improving Breast Cancer Screening Efficiency with Administrative Health Data” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to use administrative health data to a) develop individualized risk assessment models that […]

Meet Drs. Wang & Dubland

Meet Drs. Wang & Dubland

Drs. Ying Wang (left) and Joshua Dubland (right) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Who will benefit from colchicine to reduce heart attacks? Characterizing the baseline inflammation status of patients with coronary atherosclerosis” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to provide molecular insights […]

Meet Drs. McGinnis & Stubbins

Meet Drs. McGinnis & Stubbins

Drs. Eric McGinnis (left) and Ryan Stubbins (right) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Rapid targeted gene sequencing and high-resolution optical genome mapping to optimize selection of targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to: 1) Evaluate the […]

Meet Dr. Annie Ciernia

Meet Dr. Annie Ciernia

Drs. Annie Ciernia (pictured) and Sheila Teves (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Human SPI1 variants alter microglial immune memory to promote neuroinflammation” Read a summary of the project here. “This project aims to identify how GWAS hits in non-coding regions confer disease risk or […]

Meet Dr. Anna Blakney

Meet Dr. Anna Blakney

Drs. Anna Blakney (pictured) and Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu (not pictured) are recipients of the 2022/2023 Precision Health Catalyst Grant award for their project entitled “Next-generation anti-cancer antibody formats enabled through development of novel low immunogenic RNA delivery” Read a summary of the project here. “This project will develop a low immunogenic novel delivery platform that enables […]

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