Natural Language Processing of Clinical Texts
Unlocking information and insights from clinical texts to improve patient care.
Mechanisms of topological deregulation in cancer
Our lab studies mechanisms of epigenetic deregulation and genome mis-folding in cancer.
Remyelination and repair in multiple sclerosis
I study the dynamic role of glia in repair of the cortex in acquired and inherited disorders of myelin.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function / Leukemia
Hematopoietic stem cell biology and gene therapy
Palliative nephrology and racial disparities
My research focuses on palliative care, informed decision-making and racial disparities among patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease.
Bone Marrow Failure and Hematologic Malignancies
The Babushok Lab conducts basic and translational research to understand the fundamental mechanisms of how bone marrow can fail, how the failure of bone marrow can lead to pre-malignant genetic changes and myelodysplastic syndrome and leukemia, and what is the relationship between our immune system and the development of bone marrow failure and clonal hematopoiesis.
In situ structural biology through cryogenic electron microscopy/tomography
To study the structure and mechanism of macromolecular nanomachines directly inside cells.
Neural Basis of Anesthesia
Though millions of individuals are exposed to general anesthetics each year, the diverse molecular and neuronal mechanisms through which anesthetic drugs act to produce loss of consciousness are not fully understood.
Crowd wisdom, computational cognitive science, judgment & decision making, and marketing
Using experiments and computational models I study the processes underlying human judgment and decision making, and how to use knowledge of these processes to solve problems in marketing and to improve crowd wisdom.
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program that links clinical epidemiology and biostatistics within the Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Penn community.