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| 2019-11-19 | Huma Khawar, Risham Hussain and Mahnoor Naseer Gondal present posters at ICPU, Punjab University, Lahore. |
| 2019-05 27 | Mahnoor Naseer Gondal, Samar Farrukh and Navaira Sherwani awarded SRP research grants by LUMS. Congrats! |
| 2019-05-02 | BIRL celebrates HEC TDF grant award in collaboration with Byonyks Inc! |
| 2018-08-30 | Summer research internship program concludes at BIRL! |
| 2018-07-15 | Chiragh series servers get upgraded! |
| 2018-05-25 | Summer research internship program kicks off at BIRL! |
| 2018-03-18 | Antimicrobial resistance situational awareness work covered by Business Recorder. |
| 2018-02-06 | Cancer Team’s TISON project in the news. |
| 2018-01-29 | BIRL’s Cancer and Health Informatics teams participate in Lahore Science Mela 2018. |
| 2017-12-16 | BIRL lands it’s second DICE title as “Diagnia 2.0” stands 2nd at DICE 2017 – All Pakistan Information & Enabling Technologies (IET) Innovation competition. |
| 2017-10-21 | Diagnia 2.0 is released! Now supporting self-diagnosis for diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, hepatitis C and pneumonia along with pregnancy. |
| 2017-08-31 | CHIRAGH-III gets upgraded to prepare for rolling out of PERCEPTRON! |
| 2017-07-20 | Summer research program concludes with a workshop on Data Analytics & annual awards ceremony for star performers. |
| 2017-07-08 | Two network attached storages with capacities of upto 80 TB each are operationalized. Thanks HEC! |
| 2017-06-23 | BIRL inducts production servers DARVESH-I and DARVESH-II. Thanks HEC & ICT-R&D. |
| 2017-05-29 | Summer research internship program 2016 kicks off at BIRL. |
| 2017-05-27 | Fraz, Fizza and Zonaira (summer interns at BIRL) receive LUMS OSPR Summer Research Funding awards! |
| 2017-05-21 | Cancer and Proteomics teams take delivery of 6 state of the art development machines. Thanks ICT-R&D and HEC! |
| 2017-04-02 | BIRL turns four! |
| 2017-03-29 | MOU signed for data analysis with Ministry of Health! |
| 2017-01-28 | BIRL’s Cancer and Health Informatics teams participate in Lahore Science Mela 2017. |
| 2017-01-09 | SOHRAB is born. SSE HPC’s Windows component for BIRL is operationalized. |
| 2017-01-17 | The cancer modelling production server, CHIRAGH II, gets its second major upgrade to compute large scale cancer networks! |
| 2017-01-02 | BIRL starts 2017 with re-equipment of lab furniture, thanks to a grant from Dean SBASSE! |
| 2016-12-22 | “TISON” project gets the second position at DICE 2016, a mega innovation and entrepeneurship event. |
| 2016-12-02 | “Diagnia” receives the Best Poster Award at the Biosymposium-2016. |
| 2016-12-02 | “BALSA” and “TISON” project posters receive Honorable Mention at the Biosymposium-2016. |
| 2016-11-15 | BIRL’s publishes “Diagnia“, a self-diagnosis app for antenatal care, on Google Play Store! |
| 2016-08-19 | BIRL “Lab Awards 2016” held at SSE! |
| 2016-08-19 | Summer research internship program 2016 concludes at BIRL. |
| 2016-07-21 | Proteomics team wins 3rd prize in UET Electrical Engineering Senior Year Project Competition! |
| 2016-07-18 | The cancer modelling production server, CHIRAGH II, gets its first upgrade to compute large scale cancer networks! |
| 2016-07-11 | Our high performance computing collaborator, Dr. Waqar Nabi from University of Glasgow, visits BIRL! |
| 2016-05-31 | Maria Ahmed, a summer intern at BIRL, receives LUMS OSPR Summer Research Funding award! |
| 2016-05-21 | Summer research internship program 2016 kicks off at BIRL. |
| 2016-05-20 | BIRL wins a 15 Million PKR grant from ICT-R&D for cancer research. |
| 2016-04-02 | BIRL turns three! |
| 2016-03-28 | Shareef Khalid, an undergraduate student at BIRL, gets admitted into Georgia Tech’s MS Bioinformatics program. |
| 2016-03-15 | NVIDIA’s Tesla K40 is inaugurated! |
| 2016-03-07 | BIRL moves to its new and spacious homebase 9-3C1 on SSE’s 3rd Floor! |
| 2016-02-29 | Osama Shiraz Shah awarded the competitive UNIL summer internship at University of Laussane. |
| 2016-02-26 | Zohra Anwar wins the first prize in LUMS SSE PhD Colloquium. |
| 2016-02-23 | BIRL secures a hardware grant from NVIDIA Inc for cancer modelling. |
| 2016-02-17 | Dr. Amir Faisal joins BIRL as a Co-PI! |
| 2016-02-11 | BIRL secures a 5.6 Million PKR grant from HEC NRPU for proteomics research. |
| 2016-01-29 | We have twins! Proteomics and Cancer Systems Biology clusters “Chiragh-II” and “Chiragh-III” are born! |
| 2016-01-23 | Health informatics cluster “Chiragh – I” is born! |
| 2015-11-21 | Rashid Hussain stands 5th at the LUMS Marathon. |
| 2015-02-26 | BIRL operationalizes its first production server, NVIDIA Grid K2 cluster, the “Jafakash”! |
| 2014-12-03 | BIRL inducts its first GPU development server, the “Jafakash”. |
| 2014-09-30 | Dr. Sadia Humera joins BIRL as a Co-PI. |
| 2014-09-20 | Antenatal healthcare platform participates in PAKATHON 2014 at UET Lahore. |
| 2014-09-09 | BIRL successfully delivers and deploys the official laboratory portals for the Department of Biology at LUMS. |
| 2014-08-31 | Summer 2014 internship program concludes! |
| 2014-07-15 | The first of NVIDIA’s Grid K2 GPU arrives at BIRL. |
| 2014-05-15 | Summer 2014 internship program kicks off! |
| 2014-05-14 | SLATE wins the 1st prize in the national software competition EMCOT2014 (held in Abbotabad). |
| 2014-04-29 | Dr. Waqar Nabi joins BIRL as a collaborator! |
| 2014-04-13 | Dr. Fayyaz Ahmad joins BIRL as a collaborator! |
| 2014-04-13 | Dr. Emad ud Din joins BIRL as a collaborator! |
| 2014-05-12 | SLATE wins the 1st prize at the at the ICT Vision2014. [Link] |
| 2014-04-02 | SLATE selected by ICT-R&D Fund for National Grassroots Research Initiative [Link] |
| 2014-03-19 | Dr. Aziz Mithani joins BIRL as a Co-PI. |
| 2014-03-08 | SLATE participates in SOFTEC 2014! |
| 2014-01-30 | BIRL moves to LUMS SBASSE! |
| 2014-01-20 | Dr. Sameer Ahmed moves to NAMAL! |
| 2014-01-15 | Dr. Safee Ullah Chaudhary moves to LUMS! |
| 2013-12-19 | SLATE selected to appear in the Punjab Youth Festival – 2013 |
| 2013-12-16 | SLATE participates in 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Information Technology-2013 |
| 2013-05-28 | ELECANS noted by World Biomedical Frontiers as a potentially significant advancement in multi-scale modelling of cancer systems biology. [Link] |
| 2013-07-01 | Dr. Sameer Ahmed joins the group as a Co-PI! |
| 2013-04-02 | Biomedical Informatics Laboratory is born! |