"The IPA certification program has been incredibly helpful to me. Its clear categorization of the available IPA features greatly improved my analyses. Importantly, the skills learned from the program stand strong years later, even with the constant upgrades the IPA has undergone. This program helped me become more versatile in multiple area molecular profiling studies, which I have been involved with. I highly recommend investing time and effort into this program."
–Elena Nikonova, MD Staff Scientist The Wistar Institute Systems Biology
"It wasn’t until I went to a user’s (beginner’s) workshop and many patient explanations by Amy Mendenhall followed by certification, that I became more confident in using IPA. However, like many I am finding out that the more I know, the less I know. I can honestly state that my career has been revitalized and IPA keeps getting better. When is the next user’s workshop?"
"While Ingenuity provides excellent user friendly interface the certification program gave me much greater insight into Ingenuity’s core functionality. I’ve learned the value of merging, fine tuning evidence data behind the networks, sharing the projects for collaboration, and understand the hierarchy and statistics of functions/canonical pathways selection. This allows me to bring the “top-down approach” precisely to my experimental situation, and test biological hypotheses based on solid grounds of gene expression combined with the biological information in the Ingenuity Knowledge Base. I’m putting the budget for IPA in all my grants."
"I would like to thank you for this opportunity to express my satisfaction with IPA and to demonstrate how the IPA applications enriched my research and promoted my publications. I have been using IPA for a few years, and the certification definitely improved my skills as well as boosted the willingness to explore new possibilities provided by latest IPA additions and the IPA Designer, in particular."
"I have applied IPA to several microarray-based projects on cancer (mostly, tumor suppressor Annexin-A7) and inflammation (cystic fibrosis). For example, I have used Path Designer to create a new network describing Annexin-A7 tumor suppressor effects in prostate cancer cells, and this work has been incorporated in our recent publication (Int J Cancer, 2009 Dec 1;125(11):2528-39). Similar networks were also created in other projects, some of which are already accepted for publication (Oncogene, in press) or ready to submit."
–Yelizaveta (Lisa) Torosyan, MD/PhD, Research Assistant Professor,APG/USUHS
Bethesda, MD
"IPA Certificate helps me to get referral of IPA analysis from colleagues and thus I can expose myself to more cutting-edge frontier research. I use IPA to interpret the microarray data and build relevant hypothetical network and pathways in my research of cardiac stem cells and regeneration."
Attending Surgeon, Cardiac Surgery and Critical Care, Cheng-Hsin Hospital Heart Center, Taipei, Taiwan
"The main reason for me to become a Certified IPA Analyst is to take this opportunity to ‘force’ myself to learn what IPA can do for me, and then take full advantage of this system. I mainly use IPA for enrichment analysis after microarray data analysis, as well as for target validation."
–Shanrong Zhao, Computational Biology, Johnson and Johnson