National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Elisa Warner, a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, a student travel grant to attend the 2018 Connections in Smart Health Workshop.
Bioinformatics students Wei Zhou, Brooke Wolford, Ellen Schmidt and Ryan Crawford, DCMB and CCMB faculty Michael Boehnke, Goncalo Abecasis, Hyun Kang also were part of the team, as were many other UM and Norwegian scientists.
CCMB faculty Profs. Alexey Nesvizhskii, Arul Chinnaiyan, and Gil Omenn hosted a National Cancer Institute (NCI) site visit on July 24 for the Clinical Proteomics Technology Applied to Cancer (CPTAC) Proteogenomics Data Analysis Center (PGDAC). Visiting NCI leadership were Dr. Henry Rodriguez, Dr. Chris Kinsinger, and Dr. Mehdi Mesri.
Precision Health at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Scholars Awards: grants of up to $80,000 each to support precision-health research.
The Boyle Lab wins first place as the top performer in the CAGI5 Challenge to identify functional non-coding variation.
Dr. Max S. Wicha, CCMB member, has been selected as the 2019 Henry Russel Lecturer, considered the university’s highest honor for senior faculty members.
Girls Who Code at UM DCMB, co-founded by PhD students Brooke Wolford and Zena Lapp , finished their inaugural year and will be celebrating with students’ family and friends at a graduation ceremony in Rackham
A new dual degree initiative between the Bioinformatics departments at University of Michigan Medical School and Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) is set to launch next year.
Arvind is an Associate Professor with Tenure with a joint appointment in Radiation Oncology as well as an appointment in MIDAS. His office is located in Room 2035 in Palmer Commons. Welcome, Dr. Rao!
Daniel Forger, Ph.D. is part of an international team that received a $1 million grant to investigate how adult humans consolidate their sleep into a single, approximately eight-hour bout.
A new program promises to bring top science and engineering students from China to earn an advanced degree at the University of Michigan Medical School.
"Conventional wisdom is that the current vaccine is the problem, but that's not consistent with what we see," said Aaron King, CCMB faculty member, about a new study on whooping cough .
The Bioinformatics Program wishes to congratulate Marlena Duda on her recent award notification for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program ! In addition, both
The goal of Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D.’s research, funded by a grant from the American Heart Association (AHA), is to exploit recent advancements in signal processing and machine learning algorithms to construct a fully automated, computer-based platform AngioAid .
Bioinformatics Ph.D. candidate Shriya Sethuraman was recently awarded the Helen Wu Award from Rackham Graduate School .
Bioinformatics Ph.D. candidates Xinqiang Ding and Zhengda Li were each recently awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to be used next year. This highly competitive fellowship
Bring together scientists working in different areas to focus on genomes, cells, and mathematics. Organized by Dr. Stephen Smale (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Dr. Indika Rajapakse (DCMB).
Congratulations to Alex Kalin!
