Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
@Schmidt_Center
We seek to understand the programs of life by creating a strong community at the interface of ML and biology. Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/ewsc-list
🏅 Congratulations to @Schmidt_Center postdoctoral fellow @bdanubius on being selected as an award recipient of the 2025 @NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP) earlier this month! Learn more: nimh.nih.gov/research/resea…. Oh, snap indeed. @broadinstitute
.@Schmidt_Center fellows Divya Shyamal & @JiaqiZhangVic, with senior author Caroline Uhler, introduce a new framework for designing experiments with treatment combos, scaling discovery of complex interactions in biology and medicine. 🔗 news.mit.edu/2025/more-effi… @broadinstitute
🎉Preprint alert! Our Ph.D. students @ChujunHe123 and @JiaqiZhangVic , supervised by @Schmidt_Center Director Caroline Uhler and collaborator Munther Dahleh, have developed #MORPH, a MOdular framework for predicting Responses to Perturbational cHanges. Learn more ⬇️
1/6 Excited to share our latest preprint: "MORPH Predicts the Single-Cell Outcome of Genetic Perturbations Across Conditions and Data Modalities". 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 👇 Here is what MORPH is in a nutshell!
🎉Congratulations to @Schmidt_Center PhD fellow @Jakob_German and the team on their new @NatureGenetics paper! They show how adding genetic data can improve trial emulations and help design leaner, more reliable clinical trials. 📄 nature.com/articles/s4158… @broadinstitute
💬 Harnessing the power of imaging and omics to dissect the origins of chromosomal instability 👨🏫 @JanKorbel5, EMBL Heidelberg 📅 Tuesday, July 1 ⏰ 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 📍 @broadinstitute - Monadnock (2040) | 415 Main Hosted by @MelinaClaussnit
🌟 Stay connected with MIA this summer! 📅 Calendar: broad.io/mia-calendar 📺 Previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist 🧑🏫 Updates: broad.io/MIA 📖 Comprehensive fall 2024 guide: ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org/updates/fall-2… 🤔 Feedback and suggestions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
🎉 Congratulations to @Schmidt_Center postdoctoral fellow @JoYatesResearch and collaborators on their new paper in Cell Reports Medicine! We're thrilled to have you joining our Center. Learn more about Josephine's work below. ⬇️ @broadinstitute
Thrilled to share our new paper out today in Cell Reports Medicine! @VanAllenLab @val_boeva We map cell states & neighborhoods across clinical stages of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) using single-cell, epigenomic & spatial data.🔗cell.com/cell-reports-m… (1/9)
🎉 Congratulations to @Schmidt_Center postdoctoral fellow @uthsavc, who will join @JHUCompSci as an Assistant Professor in the fall! Thank you for your contributions and we're excited to see where this next chapter leads you in the interdisciplinary fields of #biology and #AI.
New life update! 🎆 🎓 This Fall, I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (@JHUCompSci) as an Assistant Professor, with an affiliation at the new Data Science and AI Institute (@HopkinsDSAI).
🎉 Congratulations to @Schmidt_Center undergraduate Divya Shyamal, PhD fellow @JiaqiZhangVic, and Director Caroline Uhler on the acceptance of their paper to #ICML2025 as a Spotlight presentation! 📄 Read the preprint and catch the authors in Vancouver: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03363
🎉 Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow @sebacultrera on his latest preprint! Learn more about his work below.👇 @broadinstitute
How can deep learning models be trained efficiently on massive single-cell datasets—without full in-memory loading or format conversion? We built scDataset to make data loading fast, memory-efficient, and accessible to everyone. Check it out!
🌷🗞️ New research, event highlights, and budding collaborations – our spring newsletter is in full bloom. 🌱 See what’s sprouting at the @Schmidt_Center: mailchi.mp/broadinstitute… @broadinstitute
🎓🎉Congratulations to our graduates! Xinyi Zhang defended her @MITEECS PhD and will start her postdoc at @MSKCancerCenter. Starting PhDs: -UROP @vyinkabanjo at @WeillCornell Tri-I Computational Biology. -MIT MEng students Ryan Welch and @divnori at @Stanford. @broadinstitute
📃 Two days of research, collaboration, and discovery at the intersection of AI and biomedical science – our inaugural symposium in a nutshell. Learn more in our comprehensive recap: ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org/updates/from-m… @broadinstitute @Schmidt_Center #ewscsymposium2025 #MLinBio #AIinBio
📅 Tomorrow – Wednesday, May 28 – join us for our last MIA of the spring 💬 @AI4Pathology 🏫 @DMSHarvard 💡 Multimodal, Generative, and Agentic AI for Pathology 💌 Join our mailing list to stay updated when we return in the fall: bit.ly/MIACast @broadinstitute
“By combining ML with biology at scale, we can guide therapeutic development,” says @Schmidt_Center Director Caroline Uhler. Learn about Image2Reg, a new ML model that connects chromatin imaging to gene regulation and drug action: broadinstitute.org/news/ai-tool-p… @broadinstitute @ETH_en