Open Targets Platform Q&A with Babatomiwa Adebiyi, an intern with the Open Targets Platform [4 minute read] Babatomiwa Adebiyi, a computer science student at MIT, tells us about his experience at Open Targets.
Guest Speakers Open Targets hosts Kiran Musunuru: insights into the genetic basis of coronary heart disease [7 minute read] Open Targets recently hosted Prof. Kiran Musunuru, who discussed his work into the genetic basis of coronary heart disease.
experimental science Getting a finer view on genes leading to Alzheimer’s disease risk [4 minute read] In a paper recently published in Nature Genetics, Schwartzentruber and his colleagues found 37 regions associated with Alzheimer’s disease, including 4 regions which hadn’t previously been identified.
Open Targets Platform The Beta version of the next-generation Open Targets Platform has been released! [2 minute read] We are thrilled to share the new Platform beta version that reinvents the best of the old Platform but using a redesigned experience and improved usability.
Open Targets International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 — Perspectives from Open Targets [4 minute read] If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the world needs science. And science needs diversity. We asked some of our staff to tell us what being a woman in science means to them, and about some of the challenges of working during the pandemic.
Open Targets Q&A with Nicole Toft, a summer intern with Open Targets (4 minute read) During the summer of 2020, Open Targets welcomed two interns from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I caught up with Nicole Toft to find out about her experience interning with Open Targets.
experimental science Q&A with Eddie Cano-Gámez, winner of the 2020 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award What does a bald soprano have to do with genetics? If you’re Eddie Cano-Gámez, Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist play, The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice Chauve), teaches you everything you need to know
