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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

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Prof Rory Johnson is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, where his research focusses on uncovering the roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in human health and disease using an interdisciplinary combination of bioinformatic and experimental methods.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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With a background in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, she has a keen interest in using technology to solve problems in healthcare and medicine. Bioinformatics is all about bringing together different areas of knowledge. Do you think the current talent pool supply meets the demand?

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Where would you fit at the Broad?

Broad Institute

By Rose Circeo August 29, 2016 Breadcrumb Home Careers Careers at Broad: where would you fit? Computational Biology Broad computational biologists and bioinformatics analysts collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of scientists who are working together to revolutionize the way biomedical research is done.

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Identify and Validate Innovative Peptides for the Treatment of Obesity

The Pharma Data

i The global prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically over the last decade and nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016, ii affecting around 650 million adults worldwide today. NASH and type 2 diabetes, as well as for a number of cancers. ii It is projected that by 2030, close to half of the U.S. population will have obesity.

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Malaria unravelled: decoding the parasite’s gene expression control

Drug Target Review

The first identification was based on a bioinformatic analysis. Author Bio: Kan Tanaka Kan Tanaka, PhD has worked as Professor, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2016. Other than essential cellular processes are likely occurring in the apicoplast compartment.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

Christian Happi Christian Happi However, in other parts of West Africa , Ebola was spreading, infecting nearly 29,000 people and killing more than 11,000 before the outbreak was contained in 2016. The Sentinel team has also trained more than 1,600 scientists from all 54 African countries in genomics, diagnostics, and bioinformatics.

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In Silico Modeling Unveils a New Era in Rare Disease Drug Development

The Premier Consulting Blog

More recently, some key events that have enabled acceptance of in silico trials for evaluating treatments for rare diseases include: In 2016, the FDA formed the Modeling and Simulation Working Group to support the implementation of CM&S in the regulatory review process. BMC Bioinformatics 2020, 21(Suppl 17):527 [link]