Members of Hood Lab Win First Place in the IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge

Members of Hood Lab Win First Place in the IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge

Kai Wang, Ji Hoon Cho and intern Alan Lin, all of Dr. Lee Hood’s group, participated in the IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge and won first place for the psoriasis sub-challenge. IMPROVER stands for Industrial Methodology for Process Verification in Research; it’s a method for verifying scientific data and concepts in systems biology research.