by Jamie Brian | Jan 29, 2025 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Students
Caroline Larkin grew up with the great discoveries of science a few steps away. As a child, Larkin lived next to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. She didn’t know it at the time, but she would one day make her own impact in...
by Jamie Brian | Jan 15, 2025 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Students
When Ali Tugrul Balci moved from bustling Istanbul to the quiet charm of Pittsburgh, he didn’t expect to find a second home. But through his PhD program, he discovered both a supportive community and a passion for cutting-edge computational...
by Jamie Brian | Nov 19, 2024 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Research, Students
PhD candidate Emma Flynn recently took to the stage at the Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she delivered a lightning talk. This symposium, which occurred on Nov. 1, highlighted progress in the application of...
by Jamie Brian | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured News, News, Students
Yuhao Chen, a visiting PhD candidate from Zheijiang University in China, spent six months honing his computational biology research at Pitt. Living and working in Pittsburgh was a transformative experience for Chen. “I think the University of Pittsburgh has a...
by Jamie Brian | Jul 19, 2024 | CPCB, Featured News, Students
Javad Rahimikollu and Hanxi Xiao, students in the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology (CPCB), led research on SLIDE, a tool for exploring complex biological interactions. They were the first-listed authors in the...
by Jamie Brian | Jul 12, 2024 | Events, Featured News, Students
April Rich, a sixth-year student in the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology (CPCB), hosted an online workshop aimed at democratizing access to bioinformatics tools in education. The two-day gene expression...
