A contest launched by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School to write software to analyze immune-system genes garnered more than 100 entries, including many that vastly outperformed existing programs. Eva Guinan, HMS associate professor of radiation oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and director of the Harvard Catalyst Linkages Program was one of the researchers and involved in setting up the contest. Ramy Arnaout, HMS assistant professor of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was also on the team.
