This paper (pdf) is a result of a collaboration between the Sharma Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Renz group at Philipps University Marburg. In this work, I developed IDEAL, a method to predict the role of micro-RNAs (miRNAs) in a disease based on their topological impact in the interactome, and not on their fold-change. The method was applied in the case of asthma, based on an experimental setup and validation done by Ayşe Kılıç (a massive work!). We found that a cocktail of 5 miRNAs identified as having large topological impact, but not large expression fold-change, led to a sharp reduction of the asthmatic Th2 phenotype.
Author: Marc Santolini
The NetMed18 satellite
The network medicine satellite “NetMed18: Personalized Medicine in the Era of Big Data” at the NetSci18 conference was a success! With talks ranging from interactome and patient network approaches, social media and word embedding, brain stimulation, genetics and molecular biology… The multi-faceted approaches to network medicine were well represented! Can’t wait for next year 🙂
Talk at NetSci18 satellite “Quantifying Success”
I am happy to give a presentation on the iGEM project on 11 June 2018 at the “Quantifying success” satellite of the Network Science conference NetSci18! The program looks wonderful!
Talk at the Pint of Science festival in Strasbourg
Talks at Sunbelt and IC2S2 conferences
I will be presenting my work on team success in the iGEM competition at the Sunbelt 2018 conference in Utrecht (Netherlands) on 30 June 2018, as well as at the International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2 at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston IL (USA) on July 13-15 (exact date to come). If you are also going to any of the two, ping me!
Sage 2018 Young Investigator Award
I’m happy to announce that I was awarded the Sage Bionetworks 2018 Young Investigator Award for my work on “Algorithms and the role of the individual”! Can’t wait to attend the Sage Assembly in Seattle :). Here is the poster I will be presenting:
New paper on personalized medicine for heart failure in the news!
Our paper “A personalized, multiomics approach identifies genes involved in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure” is in the news! I still remember the first time Alain Karma told me about this project, almost 5 years ago when I was finishing my PhD… A few months later I would be in Boston working on it, and there we are 4 years later. A great adventure, and many ideas for follow-ups!

Positions available!
Note: the application process is now over! However, if you are interested in the project and would like to do an internship, do not hesitate to contact me!
We are looking for postdoctoral associates and PhD candidates in the area of Network Science and Science of Science to join us at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) in Paris. We seek curious, motivated, autonomous, ambitious individuals with strong analytical skills, network science or data science experience and interest in applying it towards social systems. The ideal candidate has a physics, computer science, bioinformatics, data science, network science, computational social science or mathematics background with coding experience, and thrives in inter/anti-disciplinarity dynamic environments, is inspired and motivated by daily interactions with diverse peers, comfortably mixes disciplines and wishes to explore uncharted domains.