News

2024 

1. Our paper was published in Cell Reports Medicine. [Mar. 2024]
2. We were awarded a CPRIT grant. [Feb. 2024]
3. Our study was published at Annals of Oncology, and highlighted as editor’s choice. [Feb. 2024]
4. Dr. Wu was awarded Editor's Recognition Awards with Distinction from RSNA Radiology Journal Office. [Feb. 2024]

2023

1. Siemens Healthcare Fund was awarded co-lead with Dr. Joe Chang. [Dec. 2023]
2. Dr. Wu delivered a keynote speech at CMMCA workshop in MICCAI. [Oct. 2023]
3. We organized the 2nd Workshop on Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis in MICCAI at Canada. [Oct. 2023]
4. Permanent Health Funds was awarded co-lead with Dr. Jianjun Zhang. [Sept. 2023]
5. Dr. Wu was honored as one of nine recipients of the Faculty Scholar Award at MD Anderson, formerly known as the President's Recognition of Faculty Excellence. [Aug. 2023]
6. Our study was published at The Lancet Digital Health, with invited editorial commentary, to build CT deep learning model to guide immunotherapy. [July 2023]
7. We were awarded an R01 with Dr. Natalie Vokes, to study blood and radiomics for lung immunotherapy. [July 2023]
8. QIAC Partnership in Research was funded co-lead with Drs. Girish Shroff and Carol Wu. [Mar. 2023]
9. Nathaniel and Qasem’s work was awarded 2023 AACR Scholar-in-Training Award, using machine learning to predict financial toxicity in patients with resected lung cancer. [Feb. 2023]
10. Our study was published at Nature Communications. [Feb. 2023]

2022 

1. Dr. Wu was invited to present at Texas Children's Hospital Symposium on AI in Healthcare. [Nov. 2022]
2. We organized a special issue Machine learning in radiation oncology. [Sept. 2022]
3. We organized the 1st Workshop on Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis in MICCAI at Singapore. [Sept. 2022]
4. Dr. Wu was awarded the DI Outstanding Jr. Faculty Award. [Sept. 2022]
5. Our team was awarded U01 led by Dr. Sam Hanash, to build clinical validation center for lung cancer early detection. [Sept. 2022]
6. Dr. Wu served as research mentor on newly awarded T32 led by Dr. Sokolov. [April 2022]
7. Our study was published at Journal of Pathology, with invited editorial commentary. [Jan. 2022]

2021 

1. We received Rexanna's Foundation Award for Fighting Lung Cancer. [Oct. 2021]
2. Dr. Wu was invited to present at Center for Computational Oncology, UT Austin. [Oct. 2021]
3. Our study was published at Nature Machine Intelligence with editorial commentary, which we collaborated with Stanford, Cambridge, and Hokkaido University. [Sept. 2021]
4. Our study was presented at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). [Sept. 2021]
5. We received our first R01 with Dr. Tina Cascone, which aims to leverage radioimmunogenomics approach to predict efficacy of neoadjuvant immunotherapies. [Sept. 2021] 
6. We received a major donation gift from Andrea Mugnaini and Edward L C Smith with Drs. John Heymach and Jianjun Zhang to improve lung cancer detection and outcomes for nonsmokers. Andrea and Edward, thank you for supporting our cancer research! [May 2021] 
7. John Boom, a CPRIT CURE Summer student, was awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations to John Boom on his national recognition! [Mar. 2021]
8. Dr. Wu was awarded Editor's Recognition Awards with Distinction from RSNA Radiology Journal Office. [Jan. 2021]
9. UT System Rising STARs Award was funded. [Jan. 2021]

2020 

1. Dr. Wu was invited to present at Ken Kennedy Institute Data Science Conference at Rice University. [Oct. 2020]
2. The NIH R00 grant was funded, which aims to develop quantitative imaging biomarkers of treatment response and prognosis. [July 2020]