Starting this September, the IICD Newsletter is moving to a biweekly schedule! Look forward to more frequent updates on Institute news, research, events, opportunities, and more. |
|
| | A Summer of Discovery: Looking Back at IICD’s 2026 Training Programs |
|
|
| This summer, IICD welcomed its largest-ever Summer Research Program cohort, hosted six international Alliance interns from École Polytechnique, and brought together researchers from around the world for the workshop Generative AI and Optimal Transport for Single Cell Data Integration. Together, these programs highlighted IICD’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary cancer research while investing in the next generation of scientists. |
|
| | | How to Collaborate: Lessons from Hardy and Littlewood |
|
|
| What can two twentieth-century mathematicians teach us about collaboration in modern cancer research? Simon Tavaré revisits the wonderfully unconventional Hardy- Littlewood Axioms of Collaboration—and considers what these century-old rules reveal about how scientific teamwork has changed. |
|
| | | IICD Seminar Series: October Seminar |
|
| |
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA): Cancer’s Dynamic Circular Genome
Hosted by José L. McFaline-Figueroa, PhD
Date: October 14, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM (ET)
Location: Zoom
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | | | | IICD Core Faculty member, Dr. Elham Azizi, was recently interviewed for a career feature in Nature Biotechnology. In the interview, she describes her work at the intersection of machine learning, AI, and cancer research. Read more |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Congratulations to Dr. Ren-Yi Wang, Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Tavaré group) on receiving the 2025 James R. Thompson Student Award from Rice University. The award recognizes doctoral students for achievement in scholarship. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The IICD Welcomes New Members |
|
|
|
We are excited to welcome new members to the IICD and look forward to their contributions to our community.
|
|
| Register for the AI x Biology Summit @ New York Genome Center |
|
|
| Registration is now available for a one-day summit at the New York Genome Center. The event will bring together leaders across academia, biotech, pharma, and AI to explore the forntier of computational biology and AI-driven scientific discovery. |
|
| | | Recent Publications from IICD Researchers |
|
|
ARCADIA Reveals Spatially Dependent Transcriptional Programs through Integration of scRNA-Seq and Spatial Proteomics. Rozenman, B.; Hoffer-Hawlik, K.; Djedjos, N.; Azizi, E. Bioinformatics 2026, 42 (Supplement_2), btag454.
Harnessing Biological Variability for Mechanistic Inference: A Stochastic Framework Applied to Neural Stem Cell Dynamics. Wang, R.-Y.; Danciu, D.-P.; Klawe, F. Z.; Marciniak-Czochra, A. iScience 2026, 29 (9), 117269.
Primary Tumor Genomics and Patterns of Distant Recurrence in Resected Gastric Cancer. Coffey, M. R.; Xu, J.; Atri, P.; Lambert, K. E.; Shimada, S.; Walch, H.; Stroobant, E. E.; Verdone, A. M.; Tang, L. H.; Shah, S. P.; Gu, P.; Laszkowska, M.; Schultz, N.; Chatila, W. K.; Vardhana, S.; Strong, V. E. JAMA Surgery 2026, in press.
Simulation-Based Empirical Bayes. Shen, X.; Cai, D.; Zhang, C.; Blei, D. M. arXiv 2026.
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery: Workflow and Best Practices. Chang, A.; Tang, T.; Zikry, T.; Allen, G. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2026, 384 (2321), 20240602.
The UVA-Induced Single-Base Mutational Signature of CX-5461 in Human Cells. Zaikova, E.; Yap, D.; Sarvar, A.; Hafezi, A.; Tan, J.; Cerda, V.; Li, K.; Lai, D.; Gelmon, K.; Hilton, J.; Seymour, L.; Stirling, P.; Cescon, D. W.; Aparicio, S. Nucleic Acids Research 2026, 54 (16), gkag836. |
|
| | | Stay up to date with the latest from our IICD community, and be sure to follow us on X, Bluesky, IG, LinkedIn, and YouTube! Below are some recent highlights you may have missed. |
|
| | | | | | | | | |
|
|
|
|
