January 2, 2019
Happy New Year!
With 2018 coming to an end, it’s time to take a look back at the year that was at Michigan Medicine.
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November 20, 2018
Be a Victor on Giving Blue Day!
On Giving Blueday help generate funding for U-M Bioinformatics Graduate Students.
November 1, 2018
Congratulations David Sherman, Nils Walter & Mats Ljungman!
Three CCMB faculty members will be funded this fiscal year through the presidential initiative , which aims to create globally leading bio-sciences research programs focused on solving critical problems.
August 21, 2018
Elisa Warner Receives an NSF Travel Grant to Attend the 2018 Connections in Smart Health Workshop
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.
August 3, 2018
Cristen Willer led an international team that identified 111 loci, 80 of them new, for Atrial Fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia, in a study of more than 1 Million people in a biobank.
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.
July 30, 2018
PhD students present at recent NCI meeting
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.
July 25, 2018
Michigan Precision Health 2018 Scholars Awards Announced
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.
July 11, 2018
Boyle Lab Wins CAGI5 Challenge
The Boyle Lab wins first place as the top performer in the CAGI5 Challenge to identify functional non-coding variation.
June 25, 2018
University names 2019 Henry Russel Lecturer, awardees
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.
May 17, 2018
UM DCMB Girls Who Code first year
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
May 15, 2018
UMMS, PUHSC to Launch Bioinformatics Dual Master's Degree
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.
May 11, 2018
DCMB and Chair Athey hosted a Welcome Reception honoring Dr. Arvind Rao who joined our department on April 1, 2018. Arvind
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!
May 9, 2018
University part of project examining sleep consolidation
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.
May 4, 2018
New Agreement to Bring Bioinformatics Students From China
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.
April 6, 2018
More Evidence Explains Why Whooping Cough Cases Are Increasing
"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 .
April 5, 2018
Congratulations to Marlena, Catherine, and Haley!
The Bioinformatics Program wishes to congratulate Marlena Duda on her recent award notification for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program ! In addition, both
March 15, 2018
Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D., named AHA Researcher of the Week
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 .
March 12, 2018
Congratulations to Shriya Sethuraman!
Bioinformatics Ph.D. candidate Shriya Sethuraman was recently awarded the Helen Wu Award from Rackham Graduate School .
February 27, 2018
Congratulations to Xinqiang Ding and Zhengda Li!
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