Sohini Ramachandran and C. Brandon Ogbunu share how the science James Watson helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.

During CCMB's Fall 2025 Graduate Research Symposium this week, four senior PhD students gave presentations on their current research projects to fellow students and CCMB faculty, with topics ranging from resistance to anti-malarial drugs to introgression in archaic humans.

Brown CS PhD student Tassallah Amina Abdullahi has received the Best Social Impact Paper award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), one of the premier international conferences in natural language processing

Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.

A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) published their recent findings in Science magazine: "The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection."

Ritambhara Singh, an Associate Professor of Data Science and Computer Science and CCMB Faculty Member, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant.

CCMB graduate student Cecile Meier-Scherling is tackling the computational challenges of drug-resistant malaria with the one of the world’s fastest supercomputers after receiving the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.

CCMB is home to undergraduate and doctoral academic programs, each with dynamic and inspiring students. Hear from some of our graduating students and learn about their journeys at Brown.

Congratulations to graduating seniors Kanayo Duru and Lisa Duan!

CCMB PhD student Shevaughn Holness is one of 3 Brown students awarded funding from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program to continue her work on population genetics.

Walters was one of 441 students nationwide awarded one of the premier scholarships for STEM research.

Skylar Walters, an undergraduate concentrator at CCMB, has a bright future ahead of her in computational biology research.

In the month of International Women’s Day, Nature Human Behavior asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. They highlight well-known names and rising stars. Some of them have studied gender equality, and all have made tremendous efforts towards achieving it.

The 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists were recently announced, and CCMB's Sohini Ramachandran was a Finalist.

CCMB is pleased to announce Emilia Huerta-Sanchez as CCMB Director, effective July 1, 2024.

Two computational biology senior concentrators, Madeleine Pittigher and Smriti Vaidyanathan, are receiving awards from the Dean of the College for outstanding graduating seniors in the Computational Biology concentration.

Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize continued excellence in teaching, and this year, Brown CS and Data Science Institute faculty member Ritambhara Singh has received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for a junior faculty member from the physical or life sciences.

In March, CCMB postdocs and students attended and shared their research at the The Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC.

Congratulations to CCMB’s Ritambhara Singh (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science), Jeff Bailey (Associate Professor of Translational Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and David Rand (Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, Chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology)!

Daniel Weinreich, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, recently published a new textbook with MIT Press.

For twenty years, the Center for Computational Molecular Biology has been furthering computational, biological, and bioinformatical research.

The Center for Computational Molecular Biology welcomes Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Ying Ma, to its core faculty.

CCMB Ph.D. student Julian Stamp, a member of the Crawford Lab, gave a talk at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Lyon, France, in July.

Mayra Banuelos joins the Gilliam Fellows Program in July 2023

Data Science Initiative Interim Director

Hsin-Ta Wu successfully defended his thesis on Tuesday, May 10th to become our second awarded Doctorate in the Computational Biology Ph.D. program.