Congratulations to associate professor Daifeng Wang and his lab! The group published two papers in September on Alzheimer’s disease, one each in Nature Medicine and Nature Communications. Read the UW press release: https://news.wisc.edu/we-built-a-brain-roadmap-for-each-person-new-ai-driven-tools-help-researchers-decode-alzheimers-disease-at-the-cellular-level/ Access the papers: …
Research
Notes and news about research in the department
Daifeng Wang and Xinyu Zhao Awarded new R01
Congratulations to MPIs Daifeng Wang and Xinyu Zhao on the award of a new R01 titled “Machine learning tools to evaluate hiPSC organoid modeling of human brain development.” This work has the potential to expand …
Congratulations to Yin Li on Patent Award
Yi Li is part of a team awarded a patent for “Systems, Methods, and Media for Estimating a Depth and Orientation of a Portion of a Scene Using a Single Photon Detector and Diffuse Light …
Sündüz Keleş wins prestigious Kellett Mid-Career Award
BMI Professor Sündüz Keleş was awarded the prestigious Kellett Mid-Career Award for her research contributions to her field. The award provides $75,000 to be spent over five years. Congratulations to Sündüz for receiving this recognition …
Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) Training Program and the 2026 Biomedical Data Science (BDS) Annual Retreat
The 2026 Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) and Biomedical Data Science Annual Retreat will be held on Friday, May 29 from 9-4 in the Discovery Building. Agenda is below: 9:00-9:30 – Check …
Wang Lab contributes to major Down syndrome paper
The Wang Lab, in collaboration with Waisman Center researchers, published an important paper titled Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefontal cortex in the journal Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549 Dr. Wang, post …
Newton Contributes to Huntington’s Disease Research
Professor and Chair, Michael Newton, was featured in an article on Huntington’s Disease research in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences newsletter. Newton collaborated with Professor Jane Paulsen of the Department of Neurology …
BMI Faculty Profiled in Article: AI in Advancing Medical Research
BMI faculty Daifeng Wang and Irene Ong, along with BMI affiliate faculty Majid Afshar and Pallavi Tiwari, are profiled for their research using AI to advance medical research.
BMI Research Paper Highlighted in All of Us publication
Congratulations to Guanhua Chen, Zhengzheng Tang, BDS alumnus Jifan Gao, and collaborators on having a recently published paper highlighted in the “All of Us Research Highlights” series. This paper was selected because of its public …
Spencer Halberg (Roy Lab) – publication and cover of Nucleic Acids Research
Spencer Halberg of Sushmita Roy’s lab is co-first author on a paper titled “A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen” that was published in Nucleic …