The Open Targets Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

  “Sam has an exceptional talent in software engineering, and his contributions reflect a deep understanding of both the technical and biological aspects required for bioinformatics tool development,” says Laura Luebbert, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

As soon as the initial RNA genome sequence of the pathogen that would be named SARS-CoV-2 was published, CDC and other organizations began developing diagnostic tests. • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine. Work on vaccines ensued too. It closed a year ago.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s been very exciting to integrate genetics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology approaches in one study to understand this fascinating molecular system.” In humans and plants, the STAND ATPase proteins fight infection by recognizing patterns in a pathogen itself or in the cell’s response to infection.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

When doctors sequenced the DNA and RNA found in Alice’s blood and synovial fluid—the liquid that surrounds and lubricates joints—they found abnormally low levels of genes encoding iron-storing proteins and high levels of epidermal growth factor receptor RNA. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.

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