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Yakir Reshef

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute

Yakir Reshef is decoding the immune system to hone the precision of clinical assessments.

Project Description

Immune mechanisms are constantly changing to maintain the body’s homeostasis, making it challenging to decipher these processes and make precise diagnoses of disease in clinic. Yakir, a rheumatologist and trained computer scientist, will use his BroadIgnite funding to analyze blood samples using advanced machine-learning approaches, detailing a quantitative picture of how immune states vary in both health and disease. With this map, doctors can someday precisely identify—and treat—the root cause of a patient’s immunological dysfunction.