Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center

Caroline Uhler is Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering; Professor of EECS and in IDSS; and Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also a core institute and scientific leadership team member. Next year, she’ll deliver a sectional lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians at their annual congress in Philadelphia, a high honor.

A new approach for testing multiple treatment combinations at once could help scientists develop drugs for cancer or genetic disorders.

A new method for detecting gene-expression patterns linked to lineage progression, providing a powerful tool for studying cell state memory across biological systems.

The new chairs became effective July 1.

The model could help clinicians assess breast cancer stage and ultimately help in reducing overtreatment.

PhD student Xinyi Zhang is developing computational tools for analyzing cells in the age of multimodal data.

In the award announcement, SIAM noted that Uhler is being honored for her “fundamental contributions at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and biology”.

With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering.

Awards support high-risk, high-impact research from early-career investigators.