Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve
outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data.
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The Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award honors Prof. Michael Feld for his fundamental contributions to applications of photonics technologies to solving
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