An on a related topic and the reason why doing cancer informatics is so exciting in this area: a happy story where exploring data patterns enabled curing a cancer which had a 4-5% survival chance - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html?_r=1
On Jul 19, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > On 17 July 2012 22:27, Nathan <nat...@webr3.org> wrote: > Can you open this right up for everybody to be involved? > > I know I for one would be happy to invest free time to looking at these > datasets to find patterns - are they open and available online, any pointers > to get started, anything at all that would enable me (and hopefully others > skilled here) to work on this? > > It sounds like less of a "position" and more of a global need we who can > should all be pumping time in to. > > Maybe related: > > 15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test > > http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/15-year-old-maker-astronomically-improves-pancreatic-cancer-test/ > > He gleaned information on the topic from his “good friend Google,” and began > his research. Yes, he even got in trouble in his science class for reading > articles on carbon nanotubes instead of doing his classwork. When Andraka had > solidified ideas for his novel paper sensor, he wrote out his procedure, > timeline, and budget, and emailed 200 professors at research institutes. He > got 199 rejections and one acceptance from Johns Hopkins: “If you send out > enough emails, someone’s going to say yes.” > > > Best, > > Nathan > > > Helena Deus wrote: > Dear all, > We have an exciting research assistant position open at DERI for a chance to > work with Cancer Informatics! We are looking for an enthusiastic developer > who is familiar with bioinformatics concepts. Your role will be exploring > cancer related datasets and looking for pattern (applying, for example, > machine learning techniques) that can be used for personalized medicine. > Please don't hesitate to Fw. this to whomever you think might be interested. > To apply or to ask for more information, please reply to me > (helena.d...@deri.org) with CV + motivation letter > Kind regards, Helena F. Deus, PhD > Digital Enterprise Research Institute > helena.d...@deri.org > > > > > > >
