Michael Menden

Associate Professor at University of Melbourne; Principal Investigator at Helmholtz Munich; ERC StG Laureate; McGuigan Rising Star in Drug Discovery Awardee

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Super excited about our digital twin framework, which we are benchmarking in a hackathon in Melbourne right now! Stay tuned for updates, more to come soon! 😊

[Nikita Makarov @nikitamakaro]

Excited to unveil TwinWeaver: A new open-source framework bringing LLMs to multi-modal EHR! 🧬

We introduce the Genie Digital Twin (GDT), a pan-cancer foundation model developed on 93k+ patients.

📄 https://t.co/TPK9M9uOsd
💻 https://t.co/HlOcXryFYE

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[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

🚀 Thrilled to share our latest review in Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery: Generative AI & Digital Twins are reshaping personalized medicine:
https://t.co/Ib0QNRh0aa

@UniMelb, @HelmholtzMunich & Roche
#DigitalTwins #GenerativeAI #PrecisionMedicine #PharmaAI #AIinHealthcare

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

🎉 Excited to welcome Daksh Parmer to our lab as a new PhD student on a fully funded University of Melbourne Scholarship!
He’ll work on AI-driven cancer pharmacogenomics to advance precision oncology.
Congrats and welcome, Daksh! 💻🧬 #PhD #AI #PrecisionMedicine #UoM

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

📢 Exciting news from the Menden Lab! Our latest @CommsMedicine paper reveals interpretable machine learning solutions for clinical data in DSPN, advancing precision medicine.

Read more: https://t.co/3e1TGX4rqQ 🎉 #PrecisionMedicine #AI #Diabetes

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

🎓 Proudly celebrating a major milestone! 🎉 My PhD student, @aljoshoh, has successfully passed his viva with highest honors! 👏 An incredible achievement and the start of an exciting new chapter @Roche. Well done, Alex! 🚀 #PhDSuccess #ProudSupervisor #AcademicMilestone

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Congrats to Alina Arneth, 1st-year PhD student in Menden Lab, for winning 1st prize for Best Poster at AMSI BioInfoSummer2024! 🎉 Her work on "Enhancing Treatment Decisions in Oncology through Omics Analysis" advances precision cancer treatments. Well done! 👏 #Bioinformatics #AI

[Therese N.Hopfenbeck @TNHopfenbeck]

Celebrating Research Excellence Dr. Sam Stiegler & Dr. Emma Carter https://t.co/r7vBdsb65A We are pleased and proud to have welcomed Dr Emma Carter from @CamEdFac as our new McKenzie Fellow in @AERC_UniMelb @EduMelb Research matters @REAL_Centre @CambPressAssess @ayeshacamexam

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

You can be very proud of your work, well deserved 😊

[Ginte @GinteKutkaite]

Excited to represent Menden lab @MendenMichael at #ECCB2024 with @phongnbh and @daksh_pamar and talk about our research 💊🖥️📋

Come see our posters at P401, P397 and P423 !

[Michelle Vincendeau @M_Vincendeau]

So happy to see it published! Thanks to all collaborators @studerl @daph_cabi @MendenMichael @bstockwell @gabriele_ciceri @jtchieu and all others!

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

@HelmholtzMunich @MariaBordukova @nikitamakaro Thanks for sharing our work

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Very exciting work from our lab on AI-empowered digital twins predicting patient trajectories. It is my strong belief that large language and foundation models will shape the landscape of precision medicine. Here is the tweetorial👇

[Nikita Makarov @nikitamakaro]

Introducing DT-GPT: showing that LLMs can forecast patient trajectories (1/8)

Pre-print here 👉 https://t.co/lVpcvNFVnd

Big thanks to @MariaBordukova & @RaulREsteban @fschmich @MendenMichael @UniMelb @HelmholtzMunich @Roche

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

@nikitamakaro @MariaBordukova @fschmich @RaulREsteban Congratulations Nikita, well deserved! 🍾🎉

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Great research environment for starting a computational biology group ☺️👇

[Julio Saez-Rodriguez @JulioSaezRod]

Do you want to pursue your ideas in computational biology independently, running your group in @embl ‘s uniquely collaborative environment, next to world’s most comprehensive molecular data resources + with top-notch infrastructure @emblebi? Apply to join us & pls RT

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

@don_frank @MariaBordukova @nikitamakaro @fschmich @Roche @UniMelb @HelmholtzMunich Roche sent it via snail mail to Australia, otherwise I would have let you know I am in town 😊

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Feeling honored for having received an Roche Inventor Silver Medal 🍾🏆 thanks @MariaBordukova , @nikitamakaro , Raul and @fschmich @Roche @UniMelb @HelmholtzMunich

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

@JulioSaezRod @emblebi @embl @jomcentyre Congratulations Julio 😊

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Very excited to share a story on NEDD8 as a cancer vulnerability to PD1/L1 blockade in triple-negative breast cancer cells. Thanks Irineos, Ginte, Yumeng and colleagues for this fruitful collaboration published in @NatureComms 👇🙌
https://t.co/8gjSEaVkY4

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Very proud of our PhD student Phong Nguyen, well deserved! Congratulations again for receiving the Outstanding Young Investigator Award🏆💪

[Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich @HelmholtzMunich]

🏆Outstanding Young Investigator Award goes to six researchers from #HelmholtzMunich!

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD @DiabResearch) honors young researchers at the beginning of their careers with a DZD Award.

👉Get to know the winners: https://t.co/a5vjHMbZ7u

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

@nhmrc Congratulations Robyn! 😊🍾

[Michael Menden @MendenMichael]

Analysis of skin spatial transcriptomics data gives insights into the role of sebaceous glands in inflammation @UniMelb, @HelmholtzMunich. Thanks for the fruitful collaboration Kilian Eyerich and Daniel Törőcsik!👇🙂
https://t.co/2Y2G1v2Ist