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The 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition was hosted last month, December 10-13th in New Orleans, Louisiana. The American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of blood and bone marrow disorders by promoting
research, clinical care, education, training and advocacy in
hematology. The Society host the annual meeting to facilitate the exchange of scientific information and clinical results related to the field of hematology.

Alejandro presented an oral presentation at the 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition and was the honored recipient of the merit-based Abstract Achievement Award for his work on A Dynamic Personalized Human 3D Organoid for the Study of the Tumor Microenvironment and Metabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using Patient-Derived Xenografts. Each year, the American Society of Hematology offers merit-based Abstract Achievement Awards to select individuals to acknowledge the accomplishments of hematologists-in-training. His oral presentation was presented on Sunday December 11th during Session: 803. Emerging Tools, Techniques and Artificial Intelligence in Hematology: New Molecular Tools for Precision Diagnostics in Hematology. We are very proud of Alejandro’s work which you can learn more about here.

Are you a motivated modeler or developer with entrepreneurial interest? Do you want to help us to beat leukemia developing an advanced personalized medicine tool? Are you excited about being on the ground-floor of a startup spinout of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University? Join us! We are hiring!

SANICKA Inc, is a startup that builds mathematical models for biopharma, clean meat, cell therapies and healthcare industries, and we are inviting professionals to join our team working on a Georgia Research Alliance and Biolocity funded program entitled “πCIT (πChemo-Immuno Therapy) Clinical Decision Support Tool for Personalized Leukemia Treatment Selection”. The program will be carried out in the BioMedical Systems Engineering Laboratory (BSEL) in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.

Position 1: Emory University

Position title: Research Associate / Modeler

Description of position: Atlanta, Georgia / Full-Time / Onsite. Responsible for the adaptation and validation of πCIT algorithm to cover the pediatric population by accounting for significant differences between children and adult’s physiology, metabolism, AML features and available therapies. The candidate should have a Chemical or Biomedical Engineering, biocomputing science or mathematics degree. Experience in modeling of biomedical systems, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling, model analysis techniques, model-based optimization and use of modeling software (such as gPROMS / MATLAB) are essential.

Position 2: Georgia Institute of Technology

Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow / Modeler

Description of position: Atlanta, Georgia / Full-Time / Onsite. In charge of the translation, adaptation, improvement and validation of a proprietary mathematical model written in gPROMS, a SIEMENS programming language for simulation, optimization and parameter estimation, into Python. The candidates should have a Chemical or Biomedical Engineering, Biocomputing Science or Mathematics degree, be educated at PhD level. Experience on modeling of biomedical systems, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling, model analysis techniques, use of modeling software (such as gPROMS / MATLAB) and development of algorithms and applications using Python are essential.

Position 3: Georgia Institute of Technology

Position title: Research Associate / Developer

Description of position: Atlanta, Georgia / Full-Time / Onsite. Leading the implementation of the architecture to support πCIT services and provide access to a web-based “Clinician Portal” to securely upload clinical patient data, perform simulations, and access visualizations of πCIT simulation and optimization results. The operation of the web-based Clinician Portal (Front-End) and Python algorithm (Back-End) should be implemented using Amazon Web Services (AWS).  The successful candidate should have a STEM degree with experience on web-based platform development, apps development, Python, Django and AWS, which is essential.

Follow the links above to apply and/or contact us at ana.quiroga@gatech.edu

The Biolocity program has selected five promising and patient-focused technologies for its new cohort of Biolocity Launch, a year-long collaboration that helps faculty members commercialize their innovations. We are pleased to announced that our  project was selected!

Sanicka: A clinical decision support tool to aid treatment selection and optimization for leukemia patients. Principal Investigators: Ana Quiroga, Ph.D., and Sakis Mantalaris, Ph.D., (Georgia Tech); Nicki Panoskaltsis, M.D., Ph.D. (Emory University).

Learn more at here

We are so grateful for Biolocity’s support. Since 2015, the program has awarded more than $8.7 million across 58 projects, generating over 10 times that much follow-on investment.

Learn more about Biolocity at biolocity.org.

On this weeks American Cancer Society TheoryLab podcast, our post-doc, Ana Quiroga Campano, joined 3 other amazing women to talk about the Female Founders program at Georgia Tech:

-Female-led startups
-Scientist-entrepreneurs
-New technologies

Find the full podcast below: