December 16, 2019
Jie Cao, 2nd year Bioinformatics Program Ph.D. student, received the Rackham International Students Fellowship
Congratulations to Jie Cao!
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December 5, 2019
DCMB Faculty won two of the MIDAS - Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) grant awards
Congratulations to professors Arvind Rao and Reza Soroushmehr!
November 27, 2019
DCMB faculty members Brian Athey, Ph.D. and Jun Li, Ph.D. named 2019 AAAS fellows
The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Congratulations professors Brian and Jun!
November 26, 2019
Garmire Lab publishes article in Genome Biology
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) offers new opportunities to study gene expression of tens of thousands of single cells simultaneously. We present DeepImpute, a deep neural network-based imputation algorithm that uses dropout layers and loss functions to learn patterns in the data, allowing for accurate imputation.
November 26, 2019
Mills Lab publishes article in Nature Review Genetics
The Mills Lab review modern approaches for investigating structural variations (SV) and proffer that, moving forwards, studies integrating biological information with detection will be necessary to comprehensively understand the impact of SV in the human genome.
November 26, 2019
DCMB Faculty won two of the Precision Health's 2019 Investigators Awards
Congratulations to professors Maureen Sartor, Ryan Mills, Alan Boyle, and Arvind Rao!
November 20, 2019
Josh Vo Named Bioinformatics Graduate Student Rep
On behalf of the Biomedical Graduate Student Government (BGSG), we would like to introduce Josh Vo the Bioinformatics Graduate Student Representative for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.
October 4, 2019
Shariq Mohammed Receives 2019 UM Precision Health Scholars Awards
Congratulations, Shariq!
August 8, 2019
Michigan Drug Discovery Awards Mats Ljungman and Early-Stage Cancer Grant
Congratulations, Mats!
July 25, 2019
DCMB Professor, Yang Zhang, wins The 2020 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
Congratulations, Yang!
July 23, 2019
Negar Farzaneh Awarded NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship
Congratulations, Negar!
July 18, 2019
DCMB Associate Professor, Lana Garmire, Receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Congratulations, Lana!
July 2, 2019
Jenna Wiens Named New Precision Health Co-Director
Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering and CCMB affiliate faculty member, will become a Precision Health co-director, effective Sept. 1. Congratulations Jenna!
June 25, 2019
The team led by Sue Hammoud and Jun Li receive a prestigious grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The team will generate human cell atlas of the female reproductive system.
June 17, 2019
Jonathan Poisson Honored With a 2019 Endowment for the Basic Sciences Research Staff Award
Congratulations Jonathan!
June 17, 2019
Alan Boyle Honored With a 2019 Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award
Congratulations Alan!
June 17, 2019
Nguyen Vo Honored With a 2019 Endowment for the Basic EDGE Award
Congratulations Nguyen!
May 9, 2019
Rogel Cancer Center Names 14 Inaugural Rogel Sholars
Congratulations to CCMB affiliated faculty Mats Ljungman, Ph.D. and Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D. whom are part the inaugural class of Rogel Scholars, a select designation with research support funded as part of a $150 million commitment from Richard and Susan Rogel.
May 6, 2019
DYNAMICS, TOPOLOGY, COMPLEXITY, AND BIOLOGY: A conference in honor of Professor Steve Smale
Colleagues and friends of Professor Smale will celebrate his 90th birthday with series of talks