Mason Faculty and Students have paper make the cover of Biophysical Journal and another was an editors’ pick for APL Bioeng.

Dr. M. Saleet Jafri has paper make the cover of Biophysical Journal and another was an editors’ pick for APL Bioeng. The mason faculty are in bold and mason students in italics.

•  Munger, E. M., J. W. Hickey, A. K. Dey, M. S. Jafri, J. M Kinser, N. N. Mehta. 2021. Application of Machine Learning in Understanding Atherosclerosis: Emerging Insights.<https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028986> APL Bioeng. 5(1):011505. Editor's Pick
•  M. D. McCoy, J. Hamre III, D. K. Klimov, and M. S. Jafri. 2021. Understanding Proteins Through the Crystal Structure. The Biophysical Society. www.biophysics.org/blog/understanding-proteins-through-the-crystal-structure.<https://www.biophysics.org/blog/understanding-proteins-through-the-crystal-structure> Cover
•  McCoy, M. D., J. Hamre, D. K. Klimov, and M. S. Jafri. 2021. Predicting genetic variation severity using machine learning to interpret molecular simulations. <https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(20)33203-3> Biophys. J. 120(2):189-204

Also his team received the $50,000 NSF I-corps award to attend the Spring cohort to explore commercialization (product- customer fit) for the technology developed and published in the Biophysical Journal paper to be applied to predicting cancer drug resistance.