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| Jan 15, 2026 | Hirak Sarkar received American Cancer Society-Institutional Research Grant (IRG) 🏆 to advance natural-language based access to multimodal spatial-omics Data. |
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| Jan 14, 2026 | Hirak Sarkar received career enhancement award 🏆 from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) SPORE in Gastrointestinal Cancers (GI SPORE) Career Enhancement Program (CEP) to build a computational framework for integrative analysis of spatial-omics data in gastrointestinal cancers. |
| Jan 02, 2026 | 🎤 Hirak Sarkar is serving as a program committee (PC) member for the ISMB 2026 conference. Please submit your work to the conference and consider attending! DEADLINE: January 21, 2026. |
| Oct 24, 2025 | 🎤 Hirak Sarkar presented on multi-omics spatial integration at the NIH-CZI Junior Investigators Atlas Building Meeting ✨ |
| Oct 17, 2025 | 🎤 Hirak Sarkar presented on multi-omics spatial integration at the Vanderbilt Symposium on AI & Spatial Systems Biology 2025 ✨ |
| Oct 09, 2025 | 🧬 Journal version of SIID is now published in Genome Research 🎉 </td> </tr> |
| Sep 03, 2025 | 🧬 Our paper on tumor hijacking macrophages is now published in Cell! 🎉 Read the paper → </td> </tr> |
| Aug 15, 2025 | 🎉 Big news! Hirak joined Vanderbilt University to start his own lab 🧠✨ |
| Mar 21, 2025 | 🎤 Hirak Sarkar gave a talk on computational models related spatial transcriptomics at Center for Computational Systems Biology |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Presented SIID in CINJ as a part of quarterly meeting of Ludwig Instutute. |
| Dec 10, 2024 | SIID is accepted in RECOMB and available on BioRxiv |
| Dec 24, 2023 | GASTON by Uthsav is accepted in RECOMB |
| Dec 24, 2023 | GASTON is published in Nature Methods |