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Haikun Zhang recipient of esteemed NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award

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By Caitlyn Romanski Haikun Zhang, a member of Murtaza Lab, received the esteemed NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project titled “Computational methods for plasma metagenomic sequencing to improve diagnosis of sepsis in critically-ill patients.” The K99/R00 award is designed to support the transition from …

Murtaza lab published in Science Translational Medicine for research on Genome-wide analysis of aberrant position and sequence of plasma DNA fragment ends in patients with cancer

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Congratulations to Dr. Muhammed Murtaza and his team for their recent publication in Science Translational Medicine! Fragment patterns in tumor DNA offer a roadmap to diagnose patients with cancer. A new machine learning platform can distinguish patients with cancer by analyzing patterns in fragments of cell-free DNA – pieces of tumor genetic material in the blood …