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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

CPCB Student Wins Open Biology’s Open Questions Competition

Frank Britto Bisso is the winner of the 2024 Open Questions competition in Open Biology
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Three First-Year Masters Students Inducted into CMU Rales Fellows Cohort

Three first year masters students were inducted into the CMU Rales Fellows second cohort on September 30, 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Yu Awarded MIRA Grant

Yun William Yu, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Code To Care
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Code To Care

Carnegie Mellon University alumnae Annie Nadkarni and Zahra Ahmad are proof that the road to medical school doesn't always follow a traditional path. In fact, sometimes it starts with computational biology.
Does Compute: How Do I Build Glasses to See Inside the Body ft. Oana Carja
Monday, September 08, 2025

Does Compute: How Do I Build Glasses to See Inside the Body ft. Oana Carja

Listen to episode 2 of the Does Compute podcast featuring Oana Carja
Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows
Friday, August 29, 2025

Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows

Eight Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. students have received the SoftBank Group–Arm Fellowship to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human collaboration.
Carja Receives NSF CAREER Award for Evolutionary Dynamics Research
Monday, August 04, 2025

Carja Receives NSF CAREER Award for Evolutionary Dynamics Research

Oana Carja, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to support her research on how spatial structure shapes evolutionary outcomes across biological systems.
Cuba Samaniego Awarded Hypothesis Fund Grant
Friday, July 25, 2025

Cuba Samaniego Awarded Hypothesis Fund Grant

Christian Cuba Samaniego, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, has been awarded a Hypothesis Fund grant to support early stage research exploring why cellular reprogramming remains inefficient — and the role timing may play in rewriting a cell's identity.
New AI New AI Tool Could Help Fight Rare Diseases
Thursday, July 17, 2025

New AI New AI Tool Could Help Fight Rare Diseases

Researchers have developed a new deep learning method, KGWAS, that improves the detection of genetic variants and associated traits for rare diseases, potentially enabling the discovery of new drugs or treatments.
Breakthrough Gene Delivery System Targets Brain Cells with Laser Precision
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Breakthrough Gene Delivery System Targets Brain Cells with Laser Precision

Researchers from Andreas Pfenning's lab in the Ray & Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department including current and graduates of the Computational Biology PhD Program and Bill Stauffer's lab at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a revolutionary gene therapy system that can precisely target specific brain cell types
Congratulations Class of 2025!
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Congratulations Class of 2025!

Graduates from the class of 2025 will be honored this weekend in various ceremonies across campus.
Interdisciplinary Innovation
Monday, April 14, 2025

Interdisciplinary Innovation

Daphne Han wants to use her scientific expertise to make biomedical research more accessible to the public, championing science communication to help people understand important information about medicine and healthcare.
Annual Retreat held March 14, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Annual Retreat held March 14, 2025

The Ray & Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department held their annual Department-wide retreat on Friday, March 14, 2025.
Ma, Murphy Named ISCB Fellows
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Ma, Murphy Named ISCB Fellows

Robert F. Murphy and Jian Ma will be honored, along with 17 other new fellows, at the 2025 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference this summer in Liverpool, England.
Bar-Joseph To Join GenBio AI
Monday, March 03, 2025

Bar-Joseph To Join GenBio AI

Ziv Bar-Joseph, faculty in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, will join biotech startup GenBio AI as the company's co-founder and chief scientific officer.
MSCB Student Chosen for Inaugural Cohort of Rales Fellows Program
Thursday, January 16, 2025

MSCB Student Chosen for Inaugural Cohort of Rales Fellows Program

Nathan Odonkor chosen as part of the inaugural cohort of the Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellows Program.
Ma Joins Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Scientific Advisory Board
Monday, January 13, 2025

Ma Joins Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Scientific Advisory Board

Jian Ma, the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub Chicago.
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