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

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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ISB Researchers Among Recipients of AACR Team Science Award

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has recognized The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project with the 2020 AACR Team Science Awards. Award recipients include Dr. Ilya Shmulevich, ISB professor and head of the Shmulevich Lab; ISB senior research scientist Dr. Vésteinn Þórsson; and former Shmulevich Lab members Drs. Brady Bernard and Theo Knijnenburg.

ISB Researchers Among Recipients of AACR Team Science Award
ISB Researchers Among Recipients of AACR Team Science Award
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