Technology-driven biomedical research at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine & MedUni Vienna #cancer #immunology #bioinformatics #AI #singlecell #CRISPR
Vienna, Austria
Joined August 2019
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Amazing new tool published @NatureBiotech on interactive analysis of single cell data. The study introduces CellWhisperer, an AI model that links transcriptomes with text descriptions to support natural language queries and zero shot cell type predictions, and integrates it with CELLxGENE for exploration. Really cool, no coding skills needed at all!
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
CellWhisperer
From Transcriptome to Text
A great LLM-Chatbot explorer for CELLxGENE & GEO & your own data!
Contrastive language image pretraining
Geneformer
BioBERT
>1 million bulk/pseudo-bulk transcriptomes
cellwhisperer.bocklab.org
@muronglizi @PenederPeter @BockLab @NatureBiotech 2025
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data go.nature.com/3WPGJnW
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
🗨️Chat with your cells, explore #CellWhisperer!
CeMM PI Christoph Bock (@BockLab) together with @MedUni_Wien & @StAnna_CCRI have developed a new #AI tool that lets scientists explore single-cell data using plain English.
➡️ bit.ly/3JQqe87
📄 bit.ly/3WJCxGi
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
🧬 CAR T cells demonstrate the power of engineered cells as therapeutics. But they fail for most patients. Can we make them better by gene editing? Our paper in @Nature presents a CRISPR platform for optimizing immunotherapies & discovering boosters of CAR T cell function. (1/13)
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Vienna researchers tested thousands of gene edits in human CAR T cells and found that deleting RHOG, especially with FAS, makes the cells far more effective against leukemia in mice, offering a new way to boost cancer immunotherapy.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Elegant ways to rev up the immune system vs cancer keep expanding: Genome editing of engineered T cells
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
AI in medicine ready for takeoff! 🤖🚁 We flew a drone through the Institute of Artificial Intelligence @MedUni_Wien. Join us for the trip and watch our team at "work". Credits: @muronglizi, @QuantifiedRob, @R_Bednarsky & the entire crew. #AI #biomedicine #innovation #makingof
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
We are recruiting a PhD student in ML/AI methods and biomedical applications, within @ELLISforEurope & @humancellatlas. Keywords: Perturbation modeling, generative AI, synthetic biology, cancer immunotherapy, precision medicine. Great environment in Vienna medical-epigenomics.org/file…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
A week since our 2024 lab retreat, and work on some fresh projects is already in full swing. Thanks everyone for contributing and @muronglizi & @R_Bednarsky for the video (no drones were harmed...)
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
If you are a cell biology-enthusiast, a long-awaited dream has just came true! thanks to the AI-based CellWhisperer platform (designed by @muronglizi from @BockLab) you can chat with your favorite cell, unveil its secrets and eventually become good friends :) well done!!
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Had a play with CellWhisperer and found it really helpful for single cell analysis
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
This looks incredibly cool! Combination of a ChatGPT-like interface with molecular datasets 😎
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
🗨️ WANNA TALK TO YOUR CELLS? Try out CellWhisperer – our new multimodal AI that turns single-cell RNA-seq analysis into a conversation. No coding needed, just chat in plain English. Short walkthrough below. Web app & bioRxiv preprint linked in the thread. Let's dive in! (1/9)
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Excitingly looking forward with @BockLab @carninci to welcoming @humancellatlas community to @humantechnopole for "Cells in Context" October 1 to engage #environmental medicine and #public health with the power of single cell and organoid technologies /1 events.humancellatlas.org/20…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
✨ CeMM Pre-ERC Postdoc Program: Open Positions! ✨ Now is your chance: We are recruiting postdocs who are eager to pursue ground-breaking biomedical research, and we will help you to become future scientific leaders.
➡️ Read more and apply now: bit.ly/3AxV1gh
ALT CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Medical Campus in Vienna. CeMM aims to create an atmosphere which is welcoming, collaborative, inclusive and inspiring.
ALT CeMM Brain Lounge, an art room dedicated to the power of thinking.
ALT The Chemical Screening Facility at CeMM provides access to chemical biology resources, including a >100,000 compound library as well as high-throughput and high-content screening equipment
ALT CeMM Time Capsule, a room as a safe haven and repository for ideas and thoughts that are collected in writing and shared in one of the 13,000 empty notebooks
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
Beyond chain-of-thought:
Can LLMs enable biomedical simulation, combining knowledge and reasoning across scales? We built a GPT-4 powered biomedical simulator to find out.
Paper now published! :) doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed…
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
So happy to see our SimulateGPT paper peer-reviewed and published in CBM. Grateful to all the great co-authors, especially Stephan Reichl,@QuantifiedRob, @matthiassamwald and @BockLab
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Simulation-based prompting is becoming a powerful method to query LLMs
Simulation can guide biology & medicine. But biology is often too complex to capture it in equations. Can ML/AI enable qualitative simulation, combining knowledge and reasoning across scales? We built a GPT-4 powered text-based biomedical simulator: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… [1/7]
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
📢 Congrats to CeMM PI Christoph Bock @BockLab and the consortium of "Brain Resilience" for receiving one of the first "Emerging Fields" grants of the @FWF_at! The interdisciplinary team of scientists will investigate brain resilience against disease.➡️ bit.ly/3Vc6Wx8
Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna retweeted
This is a great opportunity!! Please share and/or apply!
At the Faculty of Mathematics of @univienna, we are currently hiring a Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Mathematics of Data Science - Application deadline 15 April 2024.
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure…