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Friday, November 06, 2015

Zuckerman selected as the 2015-2016 Distinguished Mentor in the Pitt School of Medicine

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel M. Zuckerman for being selected at the 2015-2016 Distinguished Mentor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Monday, September 14, 2015

Solomon awarded Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences

CPCB student Brad Solomon has been awarded a Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences by Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, September 11, 2015

Clark Lab featured in PittMed Magazine

Nathan Clark and his lab are looking at connections between what we think of as different diseases and how these connections can help lead to innovations in treatment of those diseases.
Murphy and Faeder organize NIMBioS Working Group for Spatial Cell Simulation
Friday, September 04, 2015

Murphy and Faeder organize NIMBioS Working Group for Spatial Cell Simulation

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis has announced support for a working group on Spatial Cell Simulation based on a proposal by Bob Murphy and Jim Faeder, both of whom are project leaders in the National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems.
Kostka receives R01 grant
Friday, August 21, 2015

Kostka receives R01 grant

Dr. Dennis Kostka and Dr. Tony Capra (Vanderbilt University) received an NIH R01 grant for 1.1M over 3 years.
Chennubhotla receives NSF grant with Quinn
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Chennubhotla receives NSF grant with Quinn

Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla received an NSF grant for $768K. He will be working with Dr. Frederick Quinn and his former graduate student, Dr. Shannon Quinn.
Benos and Kaminski awarded NIH R01 grant
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Benos and Kaminski awarded NIH R01 grant

Drs. Takis Benos (Pitt) and Naftali Kaminski (Yale) were awarded by NIH 2.9M over four years to perform genomic analysis to study the tissue and cellular heterogeneity in IPF.
Quinn and Chennubhotla published in Science Translational Medicine
Monday, August 10, 2015

Quinn and Chennubhotla published in Science Translational Medicine

Science Translational Medicine, has published research from one of our Pitt faculty, Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla, and his former graduate student, Dr. Shannon Quinn.
Prof. Benos (Pitt) and Glymour (CMU) are awarded $1.3M from NIH to develop new causal modeling algorithms for big, multi-modal data
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Prof. Benos (Pitt) and Glymour (CMU) are awarded $1.3M from NIH to develop new causal modeling algorithms for big, multi-modal data

Prof. Benos, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in collaboration with Prof. Glymour, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded $1.3M from the National Institutes of Health
Ph.D. Student, Nick Pabon, Receives Two Fellowships
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Ph.D. Student, Nick Pabon, Receives Two Fellowships

Second-year CPCB student Nicolas Pabon was awarded two fellowships
Wells selected to give platform talk at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Wells selected to give platform talk at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

Marta Wells, a current T32 trainee in the CPCB program, was selected to give a platform talk on February 10th at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore, Maryland.
Congratulations to Drs. Chowdhury, Kumar, and Sullivan
Monday, February 09, 2015

Congratulations to Drs. Chowdhury, Kumar, and Sullivan

Salim Chowdhury, Aparna Kumar, and Devin Sullivan successfully defend their theses.
Camacho and Baumgartner win CSAR Competition
Friday, January 23, 2015

Camacho and Baumgartner win CSAR Competition

Professor Carlos J. Camacho and graduate student Matthew Baumgartner, of University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Computational and Systems Biology, used a number of in-house computational methods to solve the five challenges.
Zuckerman, Chong, and Faeder awarded R01 grant
Wednesday, July 19, 0215

Zuckerman, Chong, and Faeder awarded R01 grant

Dr. Daniel Zuckerman (PI), Dr. Lillian Chong (PI) and Dr. James Faeder (Co-I) were awarded an NIH R01 grant for $1.3 million over 4 years.
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