Josephine Yates

@JoYatesResearch

Eric & Wendy Schmidt postdoctoral fellow, co-mentored by Van Allen @DanaFarber and Uhler @BroadInstitute / PhD in Computational Oncology, ETH Zürich

Joined February 2022

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Josephine Yates @JoYatesResearch Mar 19

🧵 Introducing SpatialFusion: a lightweight #multimodal #FoundationModel for pathway-informed spatial #niche mapping.

📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

It combines #histopathology and #SpatialTranscriptomics to identify functional microenvironments in tissue.
Here’s what we found 👇

Josephine Yates @JoYatesResearch May 23

So proud to have been part of this tremendous effort! Congrats Aayush & Valentina on getting this work out.

Aayush Grover @AayushGrover8 May 23

Excited to share that UniversalEPI is officially published in @OxfordJournals Nucleic Acids Research! 🚀

Check out the final paper and use the model here:
📄 Paper: academic.oup.com/nar/article/54…
💻 Code: github.com/BoevaLab/Unive…

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Josephine Yates @JoYatesResearch Apr 14

Honored to be named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (#ForbesUnder30) list in Science & Healthcare.

Grateful for the incredible mentors and colleagues who’ve supported me along the way.

forbes.com/profile/joseph…

Josephine Yates @JoYatesResearch Jan 28

🧵 New paper from the Boeva @val_boeva lab!

How can we reliably identify cancer cell states from single-cell RNA-seq?🤔

Florian Barkmann and I, with our co-authors, tackle this in our new CanSig benchmark, published in Cancer Research
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/arti…

Josephine Yates @JoYatesResearch Nov 19, 2025

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded the ETH Medal for outstanding PhD thesis! Grateful for this recognition of my work on tumor heterogeneity at the intersection of biology and computer science. Congrats to all other recipients! 🎉
inf.ethz.ch/news-and-event…