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BCB Predoctoral Training Program Grant Funded by NIGMS

June 23, 2021
The T32 Predoctoral Training Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) grant has been renewed for five years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Michael Lafferty Selected for Human Genomics Program

July 15, 2019
Michael Lafferty, BCB Graduate Student in Dr. Jason Stein’s laboratory, has been selected to attend the Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics program in Switzerland on August 18-22, 2019.

Scientific Retreat Held March 15-17 Features Graduate Students and New Faculty

March 18, 2019
The annual Department of Genetics/BCB/GMB Scientific Retreat was held in Wilmington NC during the weekend of March 15-17, 2019.

Mohlke named Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Genetics

February 5, 2019
Karen L. Mohlke, PhD, has been named Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Genetics.

Jason Stein and Michael Love Awarded R01 from NIH

January 16, 2019
Jason Stein, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics and Neuroscience Center) and Michael Love, Dr. Rer. Nat. (Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Genetics) are co-PIs on a new R01 award from NIH.

Genetics, BCB and GMB Faculty Recognized for Mentoring Excellence

January 14, 2019
The Office of Graduate Education and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development is recognizing ten outstanding faculty for Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring.

Yuchao Jiang, PhD Receives UNC Computational Medicine Program Pilot Award

January 11, 2019
Dr. Jiang and co-PI Qing Zhang, PhD (Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) received the one-year award to develop single cell -omic analysis tools.

Yuchao Jiang, PhD Receives Junior Faculty Development Award

December 18, 2018
Dr. Jiang's awarded project is titled “Single-Cell Omics for Assessing Genomic, Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Cancer Heterogeneity” and the proposed work aims to develop new statistical methods and computational algorithms for single-cell omic analyses in cancer.

Jeremy Purvis, PhD Receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation

November 30, 2018
Jeremy Purvis, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics was awarded a five-year grant through the Faculty Early Career Development Program of the National Science Foundation.