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We are excited to share a new preprint, " Learning the mutational landscape of the cancer genome" (Sherman*, Yaari*, Priebe* et al.). This work, a collaboration with Bonnie Berger's group at MIT, developed a deep-learning model to predict cancer-specific neutral mutation rates at kilobase-scale...

Announcing our HMPA Book Club Book List for 2021-2022 September; Know Thyself - Stephen M Fleming October; Across That Bridge- John Lewis November; Difficult Conversations- Douglas Stone- Bruce Patton- Sheila Been December; The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison January; Ikigai - Hector Garcia, Frances...

We echo your call for more meaningful, genuine conversations around difficult topics, where postdocs can openly share their experiences and thoughts. We hope to facilitate a safe space where everything from race and equity, mental health awareness, problem-solving skills, to negotiation strategies...

For our next Biotech Career Chat, we will be hosting Dr. William (Wes) Salomon from Tessera Therapeutics!Wes is an Associate Director at Tessera Therapeutics where he leads the Delivery Biology team. He has been with Tessera since early 2019 and manages a group of scientists and research associates...

Please check out and subscribe to our official HMPA YouTube account! Playlists to check out: Harvard Orientation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pnxzrbB-eU&list=PLevrnZq_w31NbL8yrIondF3GFsOHpVzQB Postdoc Orientation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr3-bk8tT7I&list=PLevrnZq_w31OI8hzJeBeT_ixnQ421Pb3P...

A big thank you to the wonderful HMPA committee of 2020-2021! Please give a big warm welcome to our new committee for 2021-2022! Governing Board and Members Chair – Mayank Chugh: Mayank_Chugh@hms.harvard.edu Secretary- Chhavi Saini: Chhavi_Saini@MEEI.HARVARD.EDU Treasure-Mike Skowyra: Michal_Skowyra...

Matthew G. Crowson, MD, an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an ENT surgeon in the Otology and Neurotology Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently appointed a Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training (BIRT) Fellow at Harvard...

Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS, FACE, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgical Division at Mass Eye and Ear, was recently elected president of the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG). The...

On August 27th, the HMPA book club is discussing books that are coming along next year. Regardless of interest, we welcome anyone looking for some casual conversations and meet new people. You are still more than welcome if you would like to have a say on the selection among the books we offer and...

We're very excited to share our ongoing work at ASHG this October! Alison Barton and Margaux Hujoel will present platform talks on penetrance of disease variants and CNV associations in UK Biobank, Maxwell Sherman will present a plenary talk on somatic mutations in cancer, and Ronen Mukamel will...