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Nudging Doctors In Intensive Care Unit Reduces Deaths
June 22, 2011
Physicians for critically ill need “copilots” to remind them of important details
By Marla Paul
CHICAGO —- Caring for patients in a medical intensive care unit in a hospital and flying a 747 are complicated tasks that require tracking thousands of important details, some of which could get overlooked. That’s why the pilot has a checklist and a copilot to ...
[Read full story]Patrick McMullen awarded PhD
May 13, 2011
On Friday-the-thirteenth, Patrick successfully defended his doctoral thesis. His work involves building tools to understand complex biological systems through the application of physically-grounded models. He will be staying with the lab through the end of the summer.
[Read full story]Sam Seaver successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis
April 8, 2011
Congratulations to Sam Seaver on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis.
[Read full story]Adam Pah and Nicolás Peláez win Chicago Biomedical Consortium Research Awards
November 10, 2010
Congratulations to Adam and Nico on their selection as two of the three Northwestern University recipients of research awards by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium. The monetary awards will go towards paying for their research expenses.
[Read full story]The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Filippo Radicchi
November 5, 2010
Dr. Filippo Radicchi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Jacobs University in Bremen (Germany) in 2007. He joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. His research interests are focused on the application of methods and tools of statistical physics to the study of complex systems and networks.
[Read full story]Patrick McMullen named Runner-Up Distinguished Graduate Researcher
September 17, 2010
Patrick has been selected as the Runner-Up for the 2010 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award. Patrick accepted the honor at this year’s department retreat, at which he was invited to speak about his work.
[Read full story]Irmak Sirer Awarded Teaching Assistant of the Year
September 17, 2010
Congratulations to Irmak Sirer on receiving the 2010 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award for the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. Irmak was selected for the award based on student nominations and faculty feedback.
[Read full story]The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Jane Wang
September 1, 2010
The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Jane Wang as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Wang earned her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan in 2010. She will be taking up a joint appointment with the Booth Lab in the Department of Communications and Disorders.
[Read full story]Nicolás Peláez passes his qualifying exam
July 27, 2010
Congratulations to Nico on an excellent talk and the successful defense of his proposal! He is now a Ph.D. candidate.
[Read full story]Making microarrays a truly high-throughput tool
July 21, 2010
Download manuscriptMicroarrays are nowadays a widely used tool for probing the set of genes expressed under different conditions. In spite of the fact that this technology has been around for about 15 years, there is still a widespread distrust of the experimental results obtained through microarray experiments. Because of this lack of trust, often results obtained with microarrays must ...
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