Media Coverage (Computational Biology)

Dr. Lee Hood joined podcast host Jeremy Koenig to discuss the evolution of medicine from reactive care to P4 health. He explored eight paradigm shifts that have transformed biology and highlighted how systems thinking, big data, and AI are reshaping wellness and personalized care.

ISB’s Cory Funk is a guest on the Optispan podcast, and sifts through why hundreds of Alzheimer’s drugs have missed the mark – and what actually moves the needle – turning hard lessons into practical takeaways for patients, clinicians, and researchers.

ISB’s Sean Gibbons joins host Mark Martin and provides a lively tour of how you actually “count” a microbiome – turning gut talk into hard numbers with tools like metagenomics, qPCR, and flow cytometry, plus myth-busting and why biomass and growth rates matter for real-world health.

Using microbial community-scale metabolic models, ISB’s Gibbons Lab can analyze an individual’s gut microbiome data and predict the colonization risk of Clostridioides difficile. In an interview, Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons discussed the implications of this research.

ISB’s Gibbons Lab developed a breakthrough method that analyzes food-derived DNA in fecal metagenomes, allowing for data-driven diet tracking without the need for burdensome questionnaires.

Thorsson-Shmulevich Lab members helped create a free resource to aid in the classification of patient tumor samples based on distinct molecular features identified by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Network.

Dr. Lee Hood spoke with Drs. Grant Cooper and Zinovy Meyler for an interview that spanned the transformative role of AI in healthcare, and much more.

Dr. Ilya Shmulevich, who passed away in April 2024, was interviewed for this story and talked about his lab’s digital twin project.