News Archive

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Lab Publication - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
Whole-genome sequences reveal zygotic composition in chimeric twins Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Freshour!
PhD candidate, Sharon Freshour, successfully defended her thesis Read More ›

ITCR Travel award - Kartik Singhal
Kartik Singhal received a travel award to present at the 2023 NIH/NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Annual Meeting! Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Richters!
PhD candidate, Miller Richters, successfully defended their thesis Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Xia!
PhD candidate, Huiming Xia, successfully defended her thesis Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Communications
Integrated analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data for the discovery of splice-associated variants in cancer Read More ›

CIViC named as a Global Core Biodata Resource
CIViC has been named in a list of 37 Global Core Biodata Resources. Read More ›

Lab Publication - Scientific Reports
Personalized ctDNA micro-panels can monitor and predict clinical outcomes for patients with triple-negative breast cancer Read More ›

Lab Publication - Blood Advances
Distinct clonal identities of B-ALLs arising after Lenolidomide therapy for multiple myeloma Read More ›

U24 award for CIViC curation
Griffith lab awarded U24 from NCI for the CIViC database Read More ›

Huiming and Susanna win poster awards at ITCR
Huiming and Susanna win poster at annual ITCR meeting Read More ›

CIViC and pVACtools win ICTR Elevator Pitch Awards
CIViC and pVACtools win Elevator Pitch contest at annual ITCR meeting Read More ›

T32 award - Kartik Singhal
Kartik Singhal has received funding support through a T32 Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Yoon!
MD/PhD student, Chris Yoon, successfully defended his thesis Read More ›

Sharon and Jason win poster awards at CGC
Sharon and Jason win poster at annual CGC meeting Read More ›

Mariam Khanfar accepted to Precision Medicine Pathway
Mariam Khanfar has been awarded a place in the 2022 Cohort of the Precision Medicine Pathway. Read More ›

My Hoang accepted to Precision Medicine Pathway
My Hoang has been awarded a place in the 2022 Cohort of the Precision Medicine Pathway. Read More ›

Parker Bridge Fellow - Katie Campbell
Katie Campbell receives Parker Bridge Fellowship award Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Cotto!
PhD Candidate, Kelsy Cotto, successfully defended her thesis Read More ›

Felicia Gomez has been promoted!
Felicia Gomez, a previous Instructor in the Griffith lab, has been promoted to Assistant Professor in Medicine. Read More ›

Lab Publication - Cancer Genetics
Standardized evidence-based approach for assessment of oncogenic and clinical significance of NTRK fusions Read More ›

Lab Publication - Cancer Genetics
Genomic and transcriptomic somatic alterations of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-cirrhotic livers Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Cancer
A community approach to the cancer-variant-interpretation bottleneck Read More ›

F30 award - Chris Yoon
Chris Yoon, a MD/PhD Candidate in the Griffith lab, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship Read More ›

Presentation award - Chris Yoon
Chris Yoon received a presentation award at the 19th International Congress on Twin Studies Read More ›

Lab Publication - Current Protocols
Exploring the Genomic Landscape of Cancer Patient Cohorts with GenVisR Read More ›

Lab Publication - JCO Precision Oncology
Impact of a 40-Gene Targeted Panel Test on Physician Decision Making for Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nucleic Acids Research
Integration of the Drug-Gene Interaction Database (DGIdb 4.0) with open crowdsource efforts Read More ›

ACCR Most-Cited Article
pVACtools paper named AACR Most-Cited Article Published in 2020 Read More ›

Lab Publication - Clinical Cancer Research
Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Pembrolizumab in Resectable Locally Advanced, Human Papillomavirus-Unrelated Head and Neck Cancer: A Multicenter, Phase II Trial Read More ›

Megan Richters accepted to Genome Analysis Training Program
Megan Richters has been awarded a place in the 2020 Cohort of the Genome Analysis Training Program (GATP). Read More ›

Dr. Wagner to Join Nationwide Children's Hospital
Dr. Alex Wagner will join the Institute for Genomic Medicine to start his own lab in medical informatics and genomic medicine. Read More ›

Leah Menshouse Springer Summer Opportunities Program
Anamika, an undergraduate student in Griffith lab, was accepted into Siteman Cancer Center's Leah Menshouse Springer Summer Opportunities Program Read More ›

AACR 2020 Scholar-in-Training Award
Megan, a Griffith lab graduate student, recieved an AACR 2020 Scholar-in-Training Award Read More ›

VICC Meta-KB Published
The meta-knowledgebase of the Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium published in Nature Genetics Read More ›

CIViCpy Published
The CIViCpy SDK manuscript is published in a special edition of JCO CCI Read More ›

David M. Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences Award
Erica Barnell, a recent Griffith lab graduate, recieved the David M. Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences Award Read More ›

Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Erica, a recent Griffith lab graduate, has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Healthcare list Read More ›

Lab Publication - Genome Medicine
Standard operating procedure for curation and clinical interpretation of variants in cancer. Read More ›

Griffith lab members teach at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Several members of the lab assisted and taught at CHSL's Advanced Sequencing Technologies and Applications course Read More ›

Lab Publication - JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
Open-Sourced CIViC Annotation Pipeline to Identify and Annotate Clinically Relevant Variants Using Single-Molecule Molecular Inversion Probes Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr. Barnell!
MD/PhD student, Erica Barnell, successfully defended her thesis Read More ›

Griffith lab members win awards and present research at Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) Annual Meeting
Several members of the lab presented at the CGC annual meeting and two members won travel awards! Read More ›

Lab Publication - Genome Medicine
Best practices for bioinformatic characterization of neoantigens for clinical utility Read More ›

K99 Award - Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner Receives NHGRI K99/R00 Award Read More ›

U24 award for continued work on CIViC
Griffith lab awarded U24 from NCI for the CIViC database Read More ›

Griffith lab members attend AACR 2019
3 lab members attend AACR 2019 annual meeting in Atlanta, GA Read More ›

Griffith Gridiron 2018 Champion
Malachi Griffith becomes first Griffith to win the lab fantasy football championship Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Genetics
Accounting for proximal variants improves neoantigen prediction Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Genetics
A deep learning approach to automate refinement of somatic variant calling from cancer sequencing data Read More ›

Pre-ASHG CIViC Hackathon and Curation Jamboree
CIViC team leads NCI-funded Cancer Variant Interpretation Hackathon and Curation Jamboree Read More ›

Lab Publication - Human Mutation
Adapting crowdsourced clinical cancer curation in CIViC to the ClinGen Minimum Variant Level Data (MVLD) community-driven standards Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr Campbell!
Graduate student, Katie Campbell, successfully defended her thesis Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Communications
Recurrent WNT pathway alterations are frequent in relapsed small cell lung cancer Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nature Communications
The prognostic effects of somatic mutations in ER-positive breast cancer Read More ›

Lab Publication - Cell Reports
Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma xenografts retain complex genotypes and intertumor molecular heterogeneity Read More ›

Dr Kilannin Krysiak accepted to ABMGG Fellowship
Kilannin Krysiak joins the ABMGG Fellowship Progam at WashU Read More ›

Biocuration Poster Award - Josh McMichael
Josh McMichael wins poster award for presentation of the CIViC 2.0 interface. Read More ›

PreConference Training Workshop - Kilannin Krysiak
Kilannin Krysiak was invited to co-chair a workshop highlighting CIViC at Biocuration 2018. Read More ›

CGC Trainee Travel Award (1st place)- Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner was awarded external support for travel to the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) 2018 annual conference. Read More ›

AACR Scholar-in-Training Award - Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner was awarded external support for travel to the AACR 2018 conference. Read More ›

QE completion - Kelsy Cotto
Graduate student, Kelsy Cotto, successfully completes her qualifying exam Read More ›

Lab Preprint - bioRxiv - Manual review SOP
Online release of Standard operating procedure for somatic variant refinement of tumor sequencing data led by Erica Barnell. Read More ›

K12 Award - Felicia Gomez
Felicia Gomez was awarded the Paul Calabresi K12 Career Development Award in Clinical Oncology Read More ›

ICTS Symposium Abstract Award - Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner's abstract was selected for the special honor of presentating to Eric Green (Director, NHGRI) at the ICTS Symposium at WashU Read More ›

PhD Defense - Congrats Dr Ainscough!
Graduate student, Ben Ainscough, successfully defended his thesis Read More ›

Lab Publication - Nucleic Acids Research
Online release of an DGIdb 3.0 publication. Read More ›

ASH Abstract Achievement Awards - Cody Ramirez and Felicia Gomez
Cody Ramirez and Felicia Gomez were honored with abstract achievement awards for the 2017 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Read More ›

Lab Publication - Blood First Edition
Online release of an ibrutinib clinical trial with genomic analysis led by Felicia Gomez. Read More ›

Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium site launch
The official website of the GA4GH driver project known as the VICC is now live! Read More ›

Griffith Lab site launch
griffithlab.org site is now live! Read More ›