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Dr. Hassanpour Receives R01

Center investigator Saeed Hassanpour has received an R01, “Clinicopathologic and Genetic Profiling through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Precision Lung Cancer Management.” The overall goal of this project is to build novel computational methods to discern the relationships between non-small cell lung cancer, somatic mutations, and drug resistance […]

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Northeast Regional IDeA Conference Attended in 2019

Faculty, trainees, and staff from the Center for Molecular Epidemiology attended the 2019 Northeast Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC) August 14-16 at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Attendees included more than 300 students, faculty, scientists and administrators from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont IDeA […]

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Dr. Hassanpour Receives Earlier Career Professor Award in 2019

Center investigator, Saeed Hassanpour, has received the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.  The award focuses on analytical and diagnostic measurements to promote and encourage research that advances important measurement technologies, and to establish strong, collaborative relationships between its researchers and leading professors early in their careers.“I’m very humbled and […]

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Dr. Passarelli Quoted in Medscape in 2019

Medscape quoted Michael Passarelli, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, in an article featuring research by other scientists about the risk of cardiovascular disease for patients with colorectal cancer. While colorectal cancer patients have previously relied on body mass index, this study, published in JAMA Oncology, indicates that computed tomography imaging will more accurately predict future risk of […]

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Dr. Hassanpour Receives R01 in 2019

Center investigator Saeed Hassanpour has received an R01, “Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening and Risk Assessment Through Deep Learning on Medical Images and Records” to build a novel, automatic, image-analysis method that can accurately detect and classify different types of colorectal polyps on whole-slide microscopic images. Hassanpour’s work seeks to improve […]

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