2024 Year in Review

Reflecting on the past year, ISB has a lot to celebrate: groundbreaking research published in leading scientific journals, well-earned promotions, widespread media coverage, and more. Enjoy our year-in-review roundup highlighting some of the important, interesting, and impactful highlights of 2024.

2024 Year in Review
2024 Year in Review

Celebrating Professor Shmulevich’s Life and Scientific Contributions

ISB hosted a full-day symposium – titled Resonance – celebrating the life and scientific contributions of Professor Ilya Shmulevich, who passed away in April 2024 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.

Celebrating Professor Shmulevich’s Life and Scientific Contributions
Celebrating Professor Shmulevich’s Life and Scientific Contributions
Ilya Shmulevich

‘A Life Like No Other:’ Remembering Beloved ISB Professor Ilya Shmulevich

Devoted husband and father. Animal lover. Accomplished pianist. Avid cyclist. Compassionate human. Exceptional scientist. The ISB community mourns the loss of Professor Ilya Shmulevich, PhD, who died on April 13, 2024. He was 54 years old.

‘A Life Like No Other:’ Remembering Beloved ISB Professor Ilya Shmulevich
‘A Life Like No Other:’ Remembering Beloved ISB Professor Ilya Shmulevich
Cultivated meat illustration

How Systems Biology Is Helping Advance the Cultivated Meat Industry

The quest to create cultivated meat has been a true multidisciplinary puzzle. It’s biology, engineering, physics, bioinformatics, mathematics, computer science, and more. Enter systems biology. ISB and other organizations are toiling to better understand how to create lab-grown meat in a safe, effective manner that can eventually scale up to compete with traditional meat.

How Systems Biology Is Helping Advance the Cultivated Meat Industry
How Systems Biology Is Helping Advance the Cultivated Meat Industry
2021 Innovator Awards

Three Collaborative Projects Announced for ISB’s 2021 Innovator Award Program

ISB has kicked off the fifth year of its Innovator Award Program by announcing three collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects. The program was created in 2017 to support early-career scientists working on high-risk, high-reward innovations, and champions interdisciplinary collaboration for non-faculty ISB researchers.

Three Collaborative Projects Announced for ISB’s 2021 Innovator Award Program
Three Collaborative Projects Announced for ISB’s 2021 Innovator Award Program

CRI iAtlas Expands to Interactive Analysis of Data on Immunotherapy Treatments

CRI iAtlas is a comprehensive web-based resource that allows oncologists and researchers to study and analyze interactions between tumors and the immune microenvironment. The iAtlas team released immuno-oncology modules that allow investigators to access and work with genomics data from trials of treatment with immune-checkpoint inhibitors. 

CRI iAtlas Expands to Interactive Analysis of Data on Immunotherapy Treatments
CRI iAtlas Expands to Interactive Analysis of Data on Immunotherapy Treatments
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