
David Cook
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David Cook
@DavidPCook
Ovarian cancer, Single-cell genomics, Cell plasticity | Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics, @OttawaHospital | Assistant Professor, @OttawaCMM


🏆 Recipient of the Polanyi Prize in Physiology and Medicine for excellence in early-career research, Professor David Cook is advancing research into gynecologic diseases and paving the way for better healthcare for women. 🔗 uottawa.ca/research-innov…

How does a stem cell "decide" its fate? Development requires both reliability (consistent cell types) AND flexibility (diverse outcomes from identical progenitors). Cells achieve this by dynamically tuning deterministic drift and stochastic diffusion. New in @NatMachIntell: scDiffEq models state-dependent drift AND diffusion, improving fate prediction by ~8% over SOTA. scDiffEq also enables genome-wide in silico perturbation screens and reveals temporal gene dynamics. 🧵nature.com/articles/s4225…























