After nearly 20 years since its beginning our Lab put together its first NewsLetter! The last 2 years were challenging and full of events. From the BLM movement to elections and let’s not forget this “other thing”. The Lab stayed isolated but still productive. This first Newsletter serves as a…
The Benos Lab received an R01 grant from NHLBI-NIH to develop interpretable probabilistic graphical models for multi-modal datasets. The methods will be used to identify factors causally linked to the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide [1]. In 2019, WHO…
The Benos Lab received an R01 grant from NHLBI-NIH to develop machine learning methods to identify and study chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subtypes. COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide [1]. In 2019, WHO estimated that 3.23 million people died for COPD [2]. More than 140,000 Americans…
Congratulations to Haopu for the acceptance by JCI Insight of his sixth paper! The paper, “Plasma 1,3-beta-D-glucan levels predict adverse clinical outcomes in critical illness“, analyzed data from 453 mechanically-ventilated patients and found a new biomarker whose baseline levels are predictive of fewer ventilator-free days and worse 30-day survival. This is a collaboration with…
Congratulations to Khaled for the acceptance by Cell Reports of a paper he co-authored. The paper, “Compensatory hepatic adaptation accompanies permanent absence of intrahepatic biliary network due to YAP1 loss in liver progenitors“, investigates the gene networks that drive hepatic cell development. This is a collaboration with the lab of Paul Monga,…
