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Biswas Family Foundation Transformative Computational Biology Grant Awardees: Milken Institute Press Release

The Biswas Family Foundation and the Milken Institute announce the five research teams selected to receive funding in the first cycle of the Transformative Computational Biology Grant Program. Nearly $14 million has been allocated to projects utilizing computational tools in various fields such as cardiovascular disease diagnosis, precision oncology treatments, improving clinical data sets, and drug repurposing all aiming to bridge the gap between research and practice in healthcare.

Publications

The following publications discuss work from Biswas Family Foundation funded projects.
December 15, 2024

ProCyon: A multimodal foundation model for protein phenotypes

bioRxiv
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
December 10, 2024

Unified Clinical Vocabulary Embeddings for Advancing Precision

MedRxiv
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
November 15, 2024

Efficient generation of protein pockets with PocketGen

Nature
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
October 7, 2024

Knowledge Graph Based Agent for Complex, Knowledge-Intensive QA in Medicine

ARXIV
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
August 29, 2024

ReXamine-Global: A Framework for Uncovering Inconsistencies in Radiology Report Generation Metrics

ARXIV
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Associated Project:
The MAIDA Initiative: Democratizing Global Medical Imaging Data Sharing for Safer and Fairer AI
Principal Investigator:

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
August 7, 2024

A foundation model for clinician-centered drug repurposing

Nature Medicine
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
July 27, 2024

Deep-learning prediction of gene expression from personal genomes

Biorxiv
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Associated Project:
Biswas Center for Transformative Computational Cancer Biology
Principal Investigator:

Katherine Pollard, PhD, Director of Data Science & Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes 

Category:
Manuscript
July 22, 2024

Contextual AI models for single-cell protein biology

Nature
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Associated Project:
AI for Cancer Genomic Medicine: Circuitry, Treatment, Personalization
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Manuscript
June 21, 2024

TDC-2: Multimodal Foundation for Therapeutic Science

Biorxiv
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Associated Project:
AI for Cancer Genomic Medicine: Circuitry, Treatment, Personalization
Principal Investigator:

Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Category:
Manuscript

PINNACLE

GitHub
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Associated Project:
CURE-Bench: Universal Benchmark for All-Disease Drug Repurposing
Principal Investigator:

Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School 

Category:
Software
Associated Project:
AI for Cancer Genomic Medicine: Circuitry, Treatment, Personalization
Principal Investigator:

Manolis Kellis, PhD, Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Category:
Software

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