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Our Curation team has put together a highlight of some of these Academic researchers, the impressive work they have been focused on in 2021, and how they’ve powered their research with DrugBank’s data:
Dr. Hua Gao
Postdoctoral researcher, Leeper Lab, Stanford UniversityPh.D. in Bioinformatics, Peking University
Research focus: Ph.D focuses on studying human genetics, discovering the casual and susceptibility genes for childhood neurological diseases by using the next-generation sequencing technology. Current research focus is the genetic and epigenetic profiles in the single-cell level under the progress of atherogenesis.
DrugBank powered research: Dr. Gao plans to utilize DrugBank’s extensive Structured Drug Interactions to assess drug-symptom relationships to filter out candidate drugs with the goal of validating a drug predictive model.
More info: https://med.stanford.edu/leeperlab.html
Dr. Monte Winslow
Member of Stanford Cancer Institute and BioXPh.D. in Immunology, Stanford University
Research focus: Using unbiased genomic methods and in vivo models to better understand the molecular and cellular changes that underlie tumor progression and each step of the metastatic cascade.
DrugBank powered research: Using DrugBank’s drug and drug target datasets Dr. Winslow hopes to identify compounds that could be employed in lung cancer mouse models to potentially treat cancer cells.
More info: https://med.stanford.edu/winslowlab.html
Dr. Jun Wen
Research fellow in biomedical informatics and postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical SchoolPh.D. in Computer Science, Zhejiang UniversityFunding from the VA Medical CenterWorks with Professor Tianxi Cai in the Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS)
Research focus: Using a computer-aided healthcare system with the aim to help people enjoy a healthier life. He also focuses on EHRs data, knowledge transfer, and multimodal learning.
DrugBank powered research: Dr. Wen hopes to use DrugBank’s structured data, focusing on drug-symptom relationships and adverse effects to filter out candidate drugs with the goal of validating a drug prediction model.
More info: https://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu/people/jun-wen
Dr. Anne Trinh
Senior research officer, Garvin Institute for Medical ResearchPh.D. in Oncology, University of Cambridge
Research focus: A retrospective analysis of five colorectal cancer cohorts including two clinical trials to identify characteristics of patient subpopulations amenable to existing therapies. She’s also investigated the role of the immune system in breast cancer progression and immunotherapy strategies towards progression.
DrugBank powered research: Using DrugBank’s highly structured data, Dr. Trinh hopes to find drug candidates that can target cancers based on their mutational profile with the end goal of finding personalized medicine for a given cancer patient.
More info: https://au.linkedin.com/in/trinha
Dr. Woo Sung Son
Associate Professor, CHA University, South KoreaPh.D. in Physical Pharmacy, Seoul National University
Research focus: His past research has included studying nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of proteins. He focuses on dynamics and molecular dynamics simulation of antimicrobial peptides in membranes, structural studies using solution and solid NMR on membrane proteins, and membrane protein works including cloning, expression, and purification.
DrugBank powered research: Dr. Son intends to use DrugBank for new chemical discovery and target identification for cancer and has the end goal of confirming and verifying a machine learning model.
More info: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Woo-Sung-Son
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