Brown University Data Science Institute

Congratulations to CCMB PhD students Jessy Patricoski-Chavez and Jacob Marglous on receiving NIH F30/F31 training grants this spring!

CCMB PHD student Jessy Patricoski-Chavez (advisor: Ece Uzun) was recently been awarded an NIH F31 training grant. Through her research project, "Deep Learning for Multi-Omics-Based Prediction of Cancer Recurrence and Treatment Non-Response," Jessy will develop explainable deep learning models incorporating genomic, clinical, and protein-protein interaction data to provide valuable insights into the progression and treatment of glioma, lung adenocarcinoma, and breast carcinoma.

CCMB MD/PHD student Jacob Marglous (advisor: Jeff Bailey) was recently been awarded an NIH F30 training grant. Through Jake's research project, entitled "Improving computational detection and genotyping of copy number variants in small complex genomes: application to high throughput sequencing in the parasite Plasmodium falciparum," he will benchmark and improve methods for copy number variation detection for malaria parasites, gaining insight into the spread of drug resistance in Africa.

Congratulations to all of our students graduating this spring! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our festivities during 2026 Commencement Weekend, including our celebratory undergraduate lunch, master's dinner, Commencement panel on "How do we reclaim our humanity in an AI-driven world?", and alumni mixer! It was so wonderful to celebrate with you all!