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Reprogramming On Demand
Dr. Indika Rajapakse, Associate Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, is researching ways to reprogram a person’s own cells to heal wounds faster.
Winter Blood Battle - U-M vs. Michigan State
This year’s winter Blood Battle against Michigan State is running from Tuesday, January 19 through Sunday, February 28. Whether you have never donated blood before or donate every year, we need your help!
Michigan Postdoc Pioneer Program Submissions are Open!
In an effort to support innovative and collaborative work within the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS), the Michigan Postdoctoral Pioneer Program has been established by the Endowment for Basic Sciences (EBS) to provide financial and mentoring support to highly motivated and promising post-doctoral fellows.
Dr. Eva Feldman, CCMB Affiliate Faculty, named 2020 AAAS Fellow
Eight University of Michigan faculty members have been elected 2020 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The U-M researchers are among 489 newly elected fellows announced Nov. 24 by AAAS.
The Nesvizhskii lab won the #ALSMinePTM Challenge
Congratulations to The Nesvizhskii lab's Team "MSFragger Swagger"
MIDAS 2020 Best Overall Poster and Most Effective Use of Data Award went to April Kriebel (Welsh Lab)
Congratulating April, members of the Welsh Lab, and the PI Josh Welch!
Mary Freer, DCMB Chief Department Administrator, Nominated to be a Michigan Medicine MVP
Congratulations Mary!
Oliver He Named to COVID-19 Council
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has selected members of a council to meet with President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan M. Collins to bring forward ideas, discuss concerns, and offer suggestions about the university’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
United Way 2020 Campaign
The United Way 2020 Campaign was launched last Monday and runs through Thursday, December 31.
UM Hosted MANA 2020 Conference
On September 14 - 16, 2020 The University of Michigan virtually hosted MANA 2020 an online 2nd annual conference of the Metabolomics Association of North America with over 400 attendees from US, Canada, Mexico and beyond.
Steve Parker, Ph.D. and Michigan colleagues have received an AMP-T2D (Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Type 2 Diabetes) Consortium Award (UM1) from NIDDK
Congratulations, Professor Parker, and colleagues!
Flu Shots Must be Received by Tuesday, December 1, 2020
This year, our organization is continuing its commitment to creating the safest possible environment for patients, families, and employees by requiring faculty, staff, and trainees to receive an influenza vaccination.
Jie Liu, Ph.D. has received NHGRI 2020 Genomic Innovator Award (R35)
Congratulations, Professor Liu!
Four U-M projects aim to advance computational discovery
"Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence for the De Novo Design of Biomolecular Probes" was one of the four funded projects lead by Aaron Frank (CCMB Affiliate).
Bioinformatics Graduate Student, Joshua Bugbee, won the 2020 ISCB Art in Science Award at this years ISMB 2020 Conference
Congratulations, Joshua!
Veerabhadran (Veera) Baladandayuthapani Joint Appointment Approved by the Board of Regents
Welcome Veera!
Matt O’Meara and colleagues published a new Nature paper as co-first author looking at a protein interaction map to find targets for drug repurposing against SARS-CoV-2
Congratulations, Professor O'Meara!
CCMB faculty member and UM MSTP graduate Arul Chinnaiyan inducted into the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations, Dr. Chinnaiyan!
Transposable elements play an important role in genetic expression and evolution
A new study by Adam Diehl, Ningxin Ouyang, and Alan Boyle, University of Michigan Medical School and members of the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine, shows that transposable elements play an important role in regulating genetic expression with implications to advance the understanding of genetic evolution.