Dr. Wall is to teach a Stanford Winter mini-course, Personalized Genomic Medicine, BIOS 234. Follow this link.

This course will provide an introduction to NGS and its implications for personalized genomic medicine. Students will gain hands-on experience with popular DNA sequence analysis tools as well as a practical understanding of the underlying algorithms and biomedicine.

Job description

The laboratory of Dr. Dennis Wall at Stanford School of Medicine is seeking highly motivated staff to develop and study novel approaches in data-driven biomedical research to discover new biomarkers, therapeutics, and to revolutionize health and health-care.

Primary Purpose(s)

Employee will conduct research and development in biomedical informatics and biostatistics, by architecting, developing, maintaining, and documenting a bioinformatics software infrastructure that integrates disparate forms of clinical and genomic data and offers other evolving capabilities to support research activities. Responsibilities for this position include… Read more

For the Wall Lab’s work in machine learning and developing systems methods to reduce the time needed to screen, detect, treat, and track patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dr. Wall has been listed as one of Stanford Medicine’s Notable People this month. Read more.

Autism Spectrum Disorder has gotten the attention of companies with the soaring demand for diagnostic tools and treatments to help those with the disorders and those around them as much as possible. According to the article, one in 68 children is autistic. Dr. Wall is mentioned for his work with Cognoa and it’s 90% success rate.

Read more at the Economist

Our resident Spaniard and Route66 lead, Leticia, has returned to Spain again to work remotely with the lab. See you at lab meetings!