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CureScience™ Institute Fall-Spring Scholars Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Program

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

The Fall-Spring Scholars Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Program invites students with a strong interest in science to fill out the online application on the CureScience™ Institute website.

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  • The Fall-Spring Scholars Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Program invites students with a strong interest in science to fill out the online application on the CureScience™ Institute website.
  • Students will have the opportunity to interact with CureScience scientists to conduct original, innovative research projects in areas such as: cancer biology, drug design, computational biology, infectious disease, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more.
  • He is a world-known expert in structural biology, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, and using AI for drug design and treatment.
  • She has authored over 50 scientific papers, three books and eight book chapters, and 13 patents.

General Atomics-led Team Awarded $7.4 Million to Develop Transformational Fusion Data Platform

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Friday, September 1, 2023

San Diego, CA, Sept. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a multi-institutional team of data scientists led by General Atomics (GA) to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research.

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  • San Diego, CA, Sept. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a multi-institutional team of data scientists led by General Atomics (GA) to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research.
  • The FDP will provide researchers with access to high-quality fusion data for the creation of reproducible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models.
  • “Creating a robust AI/ML platform with very large, curated datasets and efficient processing tools will be transformational for fusion energy,” said Brian Sammuli, Deputy Director of the Advanced Computing Center of Excellence at General Atomics and Principal Investigator.
  • “By advancing AI/ML research in fusion, we will be able to rapidly address some key remaining challenges in fusion science and reactor development.

CureScience™ Institute Summer Scholar Bioinformatics Training Program

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Saturday, May 20, 2023

The Summer Scholars Program (SSP) invites students with a strong interest in science to spend eight weeks at the CureScience™ Institute.

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  • The Summer Scholars Program (SSP) invites students with a strong interest in science to spend eight weeks at the CureScience™ Institute.
  • In addition to the original research, students will get the chance to explore scientific careers.
  • He is a world-known expert in structural biology, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, and using AI for drug design and treatment.
  • She is an author of more than 60 scientific papers, three books and eight book chapters, and 13 patents.

Marshall Heilman and Pieter De Leenheer Join Spirion Board of Directors

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Monday, January 9, 2023

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirion, a pioneer in sensitive data governance, today announced the appointments of internationally recognized cybersecurity and data technology visionaries Marshall Heilman and Pieter De Leenheer to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.

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  • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirion , a pioneer in sensitive data governance, today announced the appointments of internationally recognized cybersecurity and data technology visionaries Marshall Heilman and Pieter De Leenheer to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  • "Marshall's deep experience in sensitive data threat intelligence and Pieter's record of impactful data innovation make them ideally suited to join our board," stated Kevin Coppins, Spirion President and CEO.
  • Marshall Heilman is the Chief Technology Officer at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud).
  • He brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity, engineering and executive leadership experience to Spirion's board.

General Atomics Scientists Leverage DOE Supercomputers to Advance Fusion Energy

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.

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  • A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.
  • These simulations allow researchers to test theories and design more effective experiments on devices like the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.
  • Such simulations require enormous computing power, and many can only be run effectively on high-end supercomputers like those operated by the DOE.
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    About General Atomics: Since the dawn of the atomic age, General Atomics innovations have advanced the state of the art across the full spectrum of science and technology from nuclear energy and defense to medicine and high-performance computing.

GigaIO Announces Series of Composability Appliances Powered by AMD, First Edition Purpose-Built for Higher Education and Launched at ISC

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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The GigaIO Composability Appliance: University Edition, powered by AMD, is a flexible environment for heterogeneous compute designed for Higher Education that can easily accommodate the different workloads required for teaching, professor research, and grad-student research.

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  • The GigaIO Composability Appliance: University Edition, powered by AMD, is a flexible environment for heterogeneous compute designed for Higher Education that can easily accommodate the different workloads required for teaching, professor research, and grad-student research.
  • AMD is the perfect partner for this venture because we share a commitment to create an open, industry standards-based platform.
  • GigaIO Composability Appliances are designed to accommodate a variety of accelerator types and brands and provide a truly vendor-agnostic environment.
  • The GigaIO Composability Appliance: University Edition, powered by AMD, is offered in three configurations and is available now.

GigaIO FabreX for Composable Infrastructure Now Supported Natively in NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager 9.2

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

GigaIO, provider of the worlds only open rack-scale computing platform for advanced scale workflows, today announced that GigaIO FabreXTM for composable infrastructure is now natively supported in NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager 9.2 .

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  • GigaIO, provider of the worlds only open rack-scale computing platform for advanced scale workflows, today announced that GigaIO FabreXTM for composable infrastructure is now natively supported in NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager 9.2 .
  • With native support for Bright Cluster Manager 9.2, GigaIO FabreX customers can now compose and manage their compute systems to suit the needs of unique workloads from a single management interface.
  • Version 9.2 extends the goals of eliminating complexity and enabling flexibility by adding built-in support for composable infrastructure using GigaIO FabreX, where nodes can now be composed using Bright Cluster Manager Shell or BrightView.
  • Learn more about the native integration of FabreX for composable infrastructure in NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager 9.2, available now.

Seasoned Enterprise Tech Leader Joins Transposit as VP of Engineering

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Transposit , the company that delivers connected workflow for DevOps, today announced that Bojan (Boki) Beran joined as VP of Engineering.

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  • Transposit , the company that delivers connected workflow for DevOps, today announced that Bojan (Boki) Beran joined as VP of Engineering.
  • At Transposit, he will leverage his domain knowledge in process automation and enterprise technology to lead product direction, oversee the engineering and operations teams, and grow Transposits engineering team with top talent.
  • Bokis extensive background in process automation and low-code/no-code platforms brings unmatched value to our engineering organization as we scale our platforms capabilities to serve those teams.
  • Boki brings more than 10 years of experience in platform engineering and web development to Transposit.

CureScience™ Institute Launches Bioinformatics Training

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Saturday, April 30, 2022

SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CureScience Institute, a San Diego, California based non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to accelerating cures based on a combination of diagnostic, immunological and regenerative approaches, proudly announce that Prof. Igor Tsigelny, who recently joined CureScience, will initiate an educational program in bio-informatics for undergraduate and high-school students.

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  • SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CureScience Institute, a San Diego, California based non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to accelerating cures based on a combination of diagnostic, immunological and regenerative approaches, proudly announce that Prof. Igor Tsigelny, who recently joined CureScience, will initiate an educational program in bio-informatics for undergraduate and high-school students.
  • The Summer Scholars Program (SSP) invites students with a strong interest in science to spend eight weeks at CureScience Institute.
  • Students will be exposed to "hands-on" experience with CureScience scientists to conduct original, innovative research projects in areas such as: cancer biology, drug design, computational biology, infectious disease, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and more.
  • He is a world-known expert in structural biology, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, using AI for drug design and treatment, and structure-based drug design.

Melax Tech Receives NIH Award to Construct AI-assisted Application Using COVID-19 Data Sets

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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Phase 1 contract, valued at $300,000, has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a COVID-19 Dataset Knowledge Graph (COVID-DKG) to facilitate integrated analysis of heterogeneous COVID-19 data sets.

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  • The Phase 1 contract, valued at $300,000, has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a COVID-19 Dataset Knowledge Graph (COVID-DKG) to facilitate integrated analysis of heterogeneous COVID-19 data sets.
  • Despite existing efforts making COVID-19 data sets available for research uses, the volume and the heterogeneity of COVID-19 data make it difficult for researchers to find, understand and reuse relevant data sets for their research purposes.
  • Melax Tech was founded in 2017 and has more than 700 organizations using their technology today.More information about Melax Tech's solutions is available on the company website .
  • It provides the research community with large-scale compute and data resources, research networking, software and computational and data science expertise.