Kirk McManus, Western University

Research

Bioinformatics Combination Therapies Data Integration Experimental Validation Her2+/Er+ Breast Cancer Machine Learning Synthetic Lethality Tumor Subtyping

Latest funding

Artificial Intelligence-empowered approaches towards the development of combination therapies for HER2+/ER+ breast cancer
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$100,000

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Artificial Intelligence-empowered approaches towards the development of combination therapies for HER2+/ER+ breast cancer

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - PA: Breast Cancer Research

Principal investigators: Hu, Pingzhao; McManus, Kirk J

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Combination Therapies; Data Integration; Experimental Validation; Her2+/Er+ Breast Cancer; Machine Learning; Synthetic Lethality; Tumor Subtyping

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Bioinformatics Dear Professor McManus, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on bioinformatics connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Artificial Intelligence-empowered approaches towards the development of combination therapies for HER2+/ER+ breast cancer" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]