The 2026 Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) and Biomedical Data Science Annual Retreat will be held on Friday, May 29 from 9-4 in the Discovery Building. Agenda is below: 9:00-9:30 – Check …
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Tony Gitter Promoted to Professor
Congratulations to Tony Gitter, who has been promoted to Professor as of June 28, 2026! This is a well-deserved recognition of Tony’s contributions to the department, school, campus, and science overall. Again, congratulations to Tony!
2026 BDS PhD Student Cohort
The Biomedical Data Science PhD Admissions Committee, with significant support from Shelley Maxted, successfully recruited 8 new students for the BDS PhD Program. These students will begin their programs in the 2026 fall semester. Please …
Kevin Buhr Honored with Distinguished Prefix
Kevin Buhr, Director of the Statistical Data Analysis Center in BMI, now has the “distinguished” prefix in front of his Scientist III title. The distinguished prefix recognizes significant contributions to the department, school, and university. …
Jiwei Zhao Named 2026 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jiwei Zhao for being named a 2026 Fellow of the American Statistical Association! This honor recognizes sustained and significant contributions to statistical sciences. The ASA Fellows Committee may name only ⅓ …
Wang Lab contributes to major Down syndrome paper
The Wang Lab, in collaboration with Waisman Center researchers, published an important paper titled Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefontal cortex in the journal Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549 Dr. Wang, post …
Newton Contributes to Huntington’s Disease Research
Professor and Chair, Michael Newton, was featured in an article on Huntington’s Disease research in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences newsletter. Newton collaborated with Professor Jane Paulsen of the Department of Neurology …
BMI Faculty Profiled in Article: AI in Advancing Medical Research
BMI faculty Daifeng Wang and Irene Ong, along with BMI affiliate faculty Majid Afshar and Pallavi Tiwari, are profiled for their research using AI to advance medical research.
BMI Research Paper Highlighted in All of Us publication
Congratulations to Guanhua Chen, Zhengzheng Tang, BDS alumnus Jifan Gao, and collaborators on having a recently published paper highlighted in the “All of Us Research Highlights” series. This paper was selected because of its public …
Spencer Halberg (Roy Lab) – publication and cover of Nucleic Acids Research
Spencer Halberg of Sushmita Roy’s lab is co-first author on a paper titled “A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen” that was published in Nucleic …