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My Second Paper!

Last year I went to a conference in St. Louis and presented some research I had worked on with some colleagues in the Genetic Epidemiology group at the University of Utah. It’s not tied directly to my dissertation work, but it was a good opportunity to collaborate with some great people and learn some new [...]

Immunotherapy as a Cure for Cancer?

For part of my research, I spent some time learning about a technique called immunotherapy, which is being tested as a means to kill tumors, etc. It has been used successfully in a few trials, but it is too early to tell whether this method will be successful. The basic idea is that a person’s [...]

My First Publication!

Some of you heard that I presented a paper at a conference last November. It was in Washington D.C. at the Fall Symposium for the American Medical Informatics Association. The title of my paper was “Somatic Mutations of Cancer.” It has been made available online, so below is a link where you can read it [...]