Computational Medicine Program | Computational Medicine

Brunk Lab | CytoCellDB

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk got some nice press for the development of CytoCellDB, a new database designed to fill a crucial gap in cancer research by focusing on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). Published in Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Cancer, the database identifies which cancer cell lines contain ecDNA, which is associated with cancer proliferation, drug resistance, and genome … Read more
We are hiring! | Faculty Position in Computational Medicine

The Computational Medicine Program in partnership with the Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center invites applications for an Open Rank, Tenure Track Faculty Position in Computational Medicine. For more information: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/286019
WORKSHOP | the Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD)

Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) Workshop on Oct 28, 2024, at UNC-Chapel Hill We are pleased to announce the Gaussian accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) workshop that will be held on Monday, Oct 28, 2024, at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. The workshop is supported by the UNC Department of Pharmacology and Computational Medicine Program. It is designed for … Read more

Featured Faculty

Elizabeth Clair Brunk Elizabeth Brunk

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Department of Chemistry and Computational Medicine Program.

Katie-Hoadley Katherine Hoadley

Dr. Katherine Hoadley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She was recently published in Cell.

Leadership

The School of Medicine has launched a new Computational Medicine Program, aiming to channel UNC’s strengths in computational biology, the basic sciences, and clinical research, toward making significant advances in clinical care for patients.

The program’s co-directors are Timothy Elston, PhD, a professor of pharmacology and director of the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Charles M. Perou, PhD, the May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a professor of genetics and pathology and laboratory medicine.

“The Computational Medicine Program will enable teams of scientists from across the university to come together to address problems related to biomedical research,” Elston said. “Our ultimate goal is to generate models, combining many different types of data, that will enable us to predict outcomes of treatment and design new ways of thinking about treating disease.”