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If you’re interested in presenting at our CompMed Research-in-Progress meetings from September through December 2026, we’d love to have you. Please add your name to the Google Sheet linked below. Meetings are held on the first, second, and third Fridays of each month from 10:00–11:00 AM in the Mary Ellen...

The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 University Distinguished Professorships. These honors represent some of the highest recognitions our University can bestow, awarded to faculty whose scholarly achievements, teaching excellence, and service to the Carolina community exemplify the highest...

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk was awarded the 2025 PhRMA Foundation Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Discovery! Dr. Brunk leads a systems genomics lab that integrates single-cell technologies and artificial intelligence to study how cancer cells rapidly adapt their DNA. Her groundbreaking research focuses on identifying and targeting these genetic adaptations to...

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...

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...

On June 11, 2024, UNC Health announced Dr. Yinglong Miao, associate professor of pharmacology and computational medicine program, has been named editor-in-chief of npj Drug Discover, part of Nature Partner Journals.

Congratulations to our two winners of the 2024 CompMed Pilot Award Drs. Elizabeth Brunk and Ashok Krishnamurthy; and Drs. Guorong Wu and Todd Cohen

Dr. Karin Leiderman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and faculty in the Computational Medicine Program. She was appointed to be on the editorial board at Biophysical Journal in the Systems Biophysics Section in 2023. ( a three-year term).

$200K grant stimulates change for cancer research, By Patrick Thomas Chapel Hill, PUBLISHED 6:00 AM ET Jan. 26, 2023

A grand challenge in the genome sciences is identifying functionally relevant variants and interpreting their biological impacts on cellular systems. A growing body of work in the biomedical sciences generates and analyzes omics data; our work contributes to these efforts by focusing on the integration of different omics data types...