News
2026
We are excited to announce that the Dries Lab has received a new R03 award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)! This award will support us in... Read more →
Eddie Ruiz Successfully Defends His Thesis!
Congratulations to Edward “Eddie” Ruiz for successfully defending his PhD thesis on March 16th! Eddie’s dissertation, “Scaling Spatial Omics with ... Read more →
Junxiang Xu Successfully Defends His Thesis!
Congratulations to Junxiang Xu for successfully defending his PhD thesis on February 19th! Junxiang’s dissertation, “Resolving Complexity of Linea... Read more →
2025
GSI Seminar Spotlight on "Opportunities and Challenges in Spatial Omics Cancer Research"
BU’s GSI seminar series aims to highlight innovative science at the forefront of genomics research. On December 2nd, Dr. Ruben Dries gave a talk ab... Read more →
BUMC’s Evans Day is always an exciting opportunity for faculty and students to explain present their ongoing research, and this year the Dries Lab ... Read more →
It was an honor to take part in this year’s BMC Catwalk for Cancer Care event. This inspiring charity event shines a light on the courage and resil... Read more →
Congratulations to Eddie for receiving a travel grant AND giving a selected talk at the US Research Software Engineer Association (USRSE) 2025 conf... Read more →
Timur received another round of BU UROP funding for his work on scalable data visualizations for spatial omics research. Congratulations and we’re ... Read more →
New Giotto Suite Publication Alert!
Congratulations George (Jiaji) Chen and all other Giotto Development members! Everyone worked really hard to get this manuscript published. Briefly... Read more →
NEW R01 funding for spatial data analysis!
We’re thrilled to share that our lab has received R01 funding from the NIH for our project, “Scalable software engineering and methods for large-sc... Read more →
2024
Dr. Naomi Ko and Dr. Ruben Dries at BUMC's Grand Rounds
Every year BUMC hosts a Grand Rounds seminar where researchers in the Hematology and Medical Oncology department can present their projects and lit... Read more →
Jeff at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
This year, Dr. Jeffrey P. Sheridan presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on the lab’s 3D Biopsy project. This project is about digit... Read more →
It all started when Munawwar wore her yellow sweater and blue jeans for the first time at the Dries Lab. That very day set a great plan into motion... Read more →
Happy Birthday Eddie! We celebrated with a quick trip to Flour bakery, trying some of their Halloween special cakes. We Definitely Lit ... Read more →
BUMC’s Evans Day is a poster conference for faculty, fellows, and students to showcase the Department of Medicine’s ongoing research. This year, th... Read more →
Congratulations to Jeff! He just won 2nd place for his oral presentation during BUMC’s Evans Day! The Light Shines Kindly Upon Jeff Read more →
Give it up for Michelle! Michelle passed her Qualification Exam with flying colors. All students are now officially Ph.D. Candidates! Take a break,... Read more →
Here’s your annual reminder from the Dries Lab to clean out that nasty -80C freezer and defrost it for best freezer health. Rare Sighti... Read more →
The Dries and Ko Labs gathered at Dr. Naomi Ko’s house for a get together to celebrate the teams at BUMC and BMC. Time quickly passed from afternoo... Read more →
Eddie Gives a Talk at DuckCon!
On August 15th, Eddie presented his Ph.D. project at DuckCon! After his qualification exam, Eddie has been working hard to polish his project. He g... Read more →
A new lab member just dropped! We warmly welcome Munawwar as our new lab and project manager! The Dries and Ko Lab will be sharing Munawwar because... Read more →
A new lab member just dropped! Mason is joining the Ko lab as a clinical research assistant, he will be aiding Dr. Naomi Ko in consenting patients.... Read more →
A new lab member just dropped! The Dries Lab has officially gained another BioInformatician, we are swimming in analysts and datasets. Our SCC will... Read more →
The Dries Lab has officially completed our very first Xenium Run with 10X representative, Stephen Wood! A round of applause to our dedicated worker... Read more →
Many of the lab members gathered at Quynh’s new rental for a dumpling folding workshop. Some had the misfortune of missing out on the fun. The plum... Read more →
Big Congratulations to Eddie for passing his Qual Exam! Eddie worked especially hard during the weeks leading up to the examination and deserves ev... Read more →
To celebrate National Children’s Day, we put together a compilation of all the happy families and furry children the Dries & Ko Lab have raised... Read more →
On a rainy Sunday the Dries Lab strapped up their boots and sneakers for a nature walk at World’s End. Kim and Fran joined along for the leisurely ... Read more →
Hello! I’m the new lab manager and new narrative voice on the Dries Lab blog! Read more →
2023
Congratulations to Wonyl for passing his Quals! He got a lot of hard questions from his committee but answered them with utter confidence and suave... Read more →
Evans day this year was a great time for our lab members. We had the opportunity to see posters from four of our members, both current and alumni; ... Read more →
On Friday October 6th one of our lab members and PhD students Eddie Ruiz was given a GSF spotlight to acknowledge his academic and professional pro... Read more →
Thank you Amelia (BRITE REU program)!
On Thursday August 10th Amelia Zug presented her Summer project in the Dries lab at the BRITE Mini-Symposium in the CDS building. Amelia did an ama... Read more →
Congratulations Edward (Eddie) Ruiz on receiving the 2023 Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellow award! See this link for more inf... Read more →
Boston University CTSI Pilot grant!
The Dries lab received another pilot grant from the Boston University CTSI program. Together with Dr. Naomi Ko from the Breast Health Center at BM... Read more →
Edward (Eddie) Ruiz received an exciting Summer Internship for the 2023 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG). We all know Eddie will ha... Read more →
Jason Weis received an honorable mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. We have no doubt that he will excel in his graduate st... Read more →
American Cancer Society grant!
The Dries lab is excited to receive a grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to pilot the establishment of clinical biopsy pipelines at Bosto... Read more →
Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation grant!
The Dries lab is excited to receive a grant from the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF) to profile the distinct and heterogeneous spa... Read more →
The Dries lab is excited to receive an STOmics grant to perform Stereo-Sequencing on primary breast cancer samples. Stereo-seq technolo... Read more →
2022
Giotto Suite awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS grant!
The Dries lab is excited to receive a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program to furt... Read more →
The Dries lab is excited to receive an NIH U01 supplement grant to investigate the spatial organization at the adipose-tumor interface and in colla... Read more →
Our undergraduate student Sophia applied and received a UROP award for her work in our lab. It’s great to see that her work and efforts are being r... Read more →
Thank you Laila and Ceci (BRITE REU program)!
On Thursday August 11th Laila Norford and Cecilia ‘Ceci’ McCormick presented their summer projects at the BRITE Mini-Symposium in the Kilachand Cen... Read more →
Goodbye and Goodluck Emma Kelley!
On Friday August 5th, the Dries lab said Goodbye to our lab manager Emma Kelley. Emma was a part of the Dries lab for 2 years and made quite an imp... Read more →
High School Outreach at the Dries Lab!
The BU/BMC Hematology-Oncology Section hosted its first Summer Outreach program this year. Boston high schoolers with an interest in science were r... Read more →
Blog post coming soom….. Our new Merscope platform arrived today from Vizgen, the first in-situ spatial transcriptomics platform at BU. We can’t w... Read more →
The 28th Annual Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day was held on May 6 and is an annual celebration of the work done by PhD students in the Grad... Read more →