Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
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We seek to understand the programs of life by creating a strong community at the interface of machine learning and biology.
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🎉Congratulations to Jakob German and co-authors on their new study in Nature Medicine! Using data from 10K+ people, they found that genetic risk explains little of the variability in weight loss from GLP-1 therapy or bariatric surgery: ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org/updates/glp-1-… Broad Institute
New from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center: led by Jakob German, Schmidt Center PhD fellow, a new study finds that GKP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic work across genetic backgrounds. ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org/updates/glp-1-… Broad Institute Nature Medicine
“By combining ML with biology at scale, we can guide therapeutic development,” says Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Director Caroline Uhler. Learn about Image2Reg, a new ML model that connects chromatin imaging to gene regulation and drug action: broadinstitute.org/news/ai-tool-p… Broad Institute ETH Zurich
📅 Tomorrow – Wednesday, May 28 – join us for our last MIA of the spring 💬 Faisal Mahmood 🏫 Division of Medical Sciences at HMS 💡 Multimodal, Generative, and Agentic AI for Pathology 💌 Join our mailing list to stay updated when we return in the fall: bit.ly/MIACast Broad Institute
📃 Two days of research, collaboration, and discovery at the intersection of AI and biomedical science – our inaugural symposium in a nutshell. Learn more in our comprehensive recap: ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org/updates/from-m… Broad Institute Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center #ewscsymposium2025 #MLinBio #AIinBio
🎓🎉Congratulations to our graduates! Xinyi Zhang defended her MIT EECS PhD and will start her postdoc at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Starting PhDs: -UROP Victory Yinka-Banjo at Weill Cornell Medicine Tri-I Computational Biology. -MIT MEng students Ryan Welch and Divya Nori at Stanford University. Broad Institute
🌷🗞️ New research, event highlights, and budding collaborations – our spring newsletter is in full bloom. 🌱 See what’s sprouting at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center: mailchi.mp/broadinstitute… Broad Institute
🎉 Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano on his latest preprint! Learn more about his work below.👇 Broad Institute
🎉 Congratulations to Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center undergraduate Divya Shyamal, PhD fellow Jiaqi Zhang, and Director Caroline Uhler on the acceptance of their paper to #ICML2025 as a Spotlight presentation! 📄 Read the preprint and catch the authors in Vancouver: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03363
🎉 Congratulations to Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center postdoctoral fellow Uthsav Chitra, who will join JHU Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in the fall! Thank you for your contributions and we're excited to see where this next chapter leads you in the interdisciplinary fields of #biology and #AI.
🎉 Congratulations to Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center postdoctoral fellow Josephine Yates and collaborators on their new paper in Cell Reports Medicine! We're thrilled to have you joining our Center. Learn more about Josephine's work below. ⬇️ Broad Institute
💬 Harnessing the power of imaging and omics to dissect the origins of chromosomal instability 👨🏫 Jan Korbel, EMBL Heidelberg 📅 Tuesday, July 1 ⏰ 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 📍 Broad Institute - Monadnock (2040) | 415 Main Hosted by Melina Claussnitzer, Ph.D.
🎉Congratulations to Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center PhD fellow Jakob German and the team on their new Orli Bahcall paper! They show how adding genetic data can improve trial emulations and help design leaner, more reliable clinical trials. 📄 nature.com/articles/s4158… Broad Institute
🎉Preprint alert! Our Ph.D. students Chujun He and Jiaqi Zhang , supervised by Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Director Caroline Uhler and collaborator Munther Dahleh, have developed #MORPH, a MOdular framework for predicting Responses to Perturbational cHanges. Learn more ⬇️