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  • December 20, 2024

    Job Position: Research Assistant/Bioinformatician (ref. LAB/24/12)

    We are searching for a talented and motivated Bioinformatician to work with us. The ideal candidate will bring: - Proven experience in bioinformatic software development and/or front/back-end web [...]

  • October 1, 2024

    Five latent factors underlie response to immunotherapy

    A study by our group that identified five key factors that are significantly associated with the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy was published in Nature Genetics. We [...]

  • September 23, 2024

    Intogen release 2024

    We are very happy to announce that a dual new release of intOGen and boostDM is out. We collected data from 33,218 tumors, resulting in 633 driver genes. [...]

  • September 18, 2024

    New machine learning models to identify driver mutations for clonal hematopoiesis

    Our latest work to identify mutations that drive clonal hematopoiesis (CH) has been published in the journal Cancer Discovery. We developed machine learning models to identify the mutations [...]

  • March 20, 2024

    Our work on the origin of some pediatric cancers published in Cancer Discovery

    We studied the cases of four children who have experienced two cancers during childhood to address the origin of second pediatric cancers. As a tool, the research uses [...]

  • February 2, 2024

    Barcelona Biomed Conference on CANCER PROMOTION

    CANCER PROMOTION: understanding cancer promotion to inform prevention Link to the video Nuria Lopez-Bigas, jointly with Allan Balmain (UCSF) and Paul Brennan (IARC) is organizing the next Barcelona [...]

  • June 2, 2023

    IntOGen new release (2023)

    intOGen is out. In this release we have increased the number of cohorts and samples, we have made small updates to the IntOGen pipeline and we have updated [...]

  • March 17, 2023

    CGI-CLINICS New Website

    We have launched the new website for the EU funded project CGI-Clinics coordinated by Nuria Lopez-Bigas. CGI-Clinics is a community-driven project that aims to improve precision medicine [...]

  • November 28, 2022

    CGI-CLINICS Kick Off Meeting

    On November 21-23 we celebrated the Kick-Off Meeting of CGI-Clinics, a five-year project funded by the European Commission, which started on November 1st 2022. Sixty participants of [...]

  • July 30, 2021

    Published in Nature our new machine learning method to analyze cancer driver mutations titled “In Silico saturation mutagenesis of cancer genes”.

    BoostDM is a computational tool based on machine learning designed to identify driver mutations affecting cancer genes. The method, inspired in evolutionary biology, is designed to define the [...]