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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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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

He is the head of the Precision Medicine Laboratory in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, which comprises a team of postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, bioinformaticians and research higher degree students. Murray is also leading the HMRI Precision Medicine Research Program and is the CEO of PolygenRx.

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Case study: NCI’s Molecular Targets Platform

The Open Targets Blog

The CCDI Molecular Targets Platform (MTP) is a collaborative effort between the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Frederick National Laboratory with input from the NCI and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Uncovering the mechanisms underlying lack of response to immunotherapy

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Led by researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the work focuses on understanding why some tumours fail to respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) […]

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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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Case study: Extracting tidy data from Open Targets Genetics with Otargen

The Open Targets Blog

Amir Feizi is the Director of Bioinformatics at OMass Therapeutics, a spinout from Professor Dame Carol Robinson’s Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Their work was recently published in Bioinformatics. Amir Feizi and Ray Kamalika What inspired you to create Otargen?

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

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The initial BioWatch machines required off-site laboratory analysis, which means a trained technician had to go to each machine, collect samples, and then study those samples in a laboratory. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S. But these technologies continue to improve along both axes.

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