Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, was among nine recipients of the 2016 U-M Endowment for Basic Sciences Teaching Award.
Congratulations to Wei Zhou, Ph.D. candidate!
Many different mutations linked to Type 2 diabetes all occur in key stretches of active DNA within pancreatic islet cells, interfering with the activity of a master regulator
MTRAC for Life Sciences Innovation Hub, based at U-M Medical School, awards annual funding to 11 project teams.
Read MoreA new paper published in PNAS, by Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., and Stephen Smale, Ph.D., builds a highly idealized mathematical foundation that combines the genome (within cell) and the diffusion (between cell) dynamical forces. The tradeoff between these forces gives rise to emergence of function of the tissue.
Gilbert S. Omenn - March 28, 2017
The University of Michigan was recently awarded $8.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the molecular changes that occur during and after physical activity.
Read MoreThe University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine seeks to enrich the university’s intellectual and training environment around RNA biomedicine, promote and develop cross-disciplinary collaborations, and enrich the U-M’s intellectual and training environment around RNA biomedicine.
Four research teams from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, including DCMB faculty member Kayvan Najarian, are sharing $800,000 in awards to study depression, electric vehicles, urban green space and bone cancer.
This award recognizes a scientist or group of scientists identified as having made outstanding contributions to the Medical School in basic biomedical science research.
Read MoreThe Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) reviews school-wide applications for bridging support, Distinguished Faculty Lectureships, the Dean’s Basic Science Research Award, and nominations for career awards.
