Shmulevich-Thorsson

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
Pan Cancer

ISB's Computational Teams Play Central Role in Completion of TCGA’s PanCancer Atlas Initiative

ISB's computational and bioinformatics teams played a central role in the completion of the PanCancer Atlas Initiative, the final phase of TCGA. The culmination of this work is being published in 27 papers this week across the Cell Press research journals, including "The Immune Landscape of Cancer" in Immunity.

ISB's Computational Teams Play Central Role in Completion of TCGA’s PanCancer Atlas Initiative
ISB's Computational Teams Play Central Role in Completion of TCGA’s PanCancer Atlas Initiative
CRI iAtlas

Cancer Research Institute, ISB, Sage Bionetworks Unveil Comprehensive Immunotherapy Tool

Three organizations on the forefront of cancer immunotherapy, systems biology and bioinformatics announced the release of the Cancer Research Institute iAtlas, a comprehensive web-based tool that allows oncologists and researchers to study and analyze interactions between tumors and the immune microenvironment.

Cancer Research Institute, ISB, Sage Bionetworks Unveil Comprehensive Immunotherapy Tool
Cancer Research Institute, ISB, Sage Bionetworks Unveil Comprehensive Immunotherapy Tool

Sanger Institute’s COSMIC database expands cancer cloud capabilities at the Institute for Systems Biology

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s Catalog of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) team announces a new agreement to provide their data to the U.S.-based Institute for Systems Biology (ISB).

Sanger Institute’s COSMIC database expands cancer cloud capabilities at the Institute for Systems Biology
Sanger Institute’s COSMIC database expands cancer cloud capabilities at the Institute for Systems Biology

Comprehensive study of esophageal cancer reveals several molecular subtypes, provides new insight into increasingly prevalent disease

A comprehensive analysis of 559 esophageal and gastric cancer samples, collected from patients around the world, suggests the two main types of esophageal cancer differ markedly in their molecular characteristics and should be considered separate diseases.

Comprehensive study of esophageal cancer reveals several molecular subtypes, provides new insight into increasingly prevalent disease
Comprehensive study of esophageal cancer reveals several molecular subtypes, provides new insight into increasingly prevalent disease