The Lab of Dr. Joseph Califano under the sponsorship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) will conduct collaborative research on a new strategy for the treatment for HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer based on comprehensive epigenetic analysis.  This year, we are proud to congratulate Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Takuya Nakagawa for his work entitled “Genetic and epigenetic analysis of HPV-positive and HPV-negative Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”. Dr. Nakagawa graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine in Japan where he also received the Medical Pharmacy Director’s Award. 

We're working on a number of projects related to hardware acceleration of computationally challenging tasks in genomics research and looking for highly motivated students with some background in GPU/FPGA programming or high-performance computing to join. Please contact me via email for details on the latest projects. 

We’re currently working with an international group of collaborators to perform phylogenetic
analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 sequences for viral epidemiology and evolutionary biology applications. Current projects include phylogenetic placement in real time, tree structure optimization, recombination inference, etc. Contact me via email for the latest details.

This project seeks to develop novel deep learning methods to forecast and control patients blood pressure using large-scale sensor data from artificial heart pump.