News Archive

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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 ›