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.

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)!

Mayra Banuelos joins the Gilliam Fellows Program in July 2023

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

CCMB Professor Sohini Ramachandran has been awarded Brown’s Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship for 2016-2017.

Julia joins the faculty at Stanford!

Congratulations to Abigail Janke class of 2016 who has been awarded the Senior Biology Prize for Academic Excellence.

Ph.D. student Stephen Rong of Brown University’s Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology has just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.

Dual congratulations are in order for CCMB Postdoctoral Fellow Mohammed El-Kebir.

Please join me in Congratulating Sohini Ramachandran on her appointment to the Manning Assistant Professor chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

CCMB incoming PhD student on winning the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank’s 2015 Poster Prize!

Dr. Sohini Ramachandran receives the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Barry Connors, Diane Lipscombe, and David Rand have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will be officially welcomed as fellows on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C.

In Boston, Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) managed to put a capstone on their achievement of giving a record number of talks at one of the most prominent conferences in Computational Biology.

Brown University's Department of Computer Science has exceeded its own record for the largest number of Seed Awards in a single year, with six faculty members sharing five awards in 2014.

Sorin Istrail has received funding for the NSF grant "Genome-Wide Algorithms for Haplotype Reconstruction and Beyond: A Combined Haplotype Assembly and Identical-by-Descent Tracts Approach".

Postdoctoral Research Associate Iman Hajirasouliha of Brown University's Computer Science Department and the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) has just received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his proposal ("Algorithms for constructing ancestral history of deep-sequenced tumors") on cancer heterogeneity.

Sorin Istrail has received the inaugural Translational Seed Award from OVPR for the project “Development of New Computational and Point of Care Platforms for HIV Drug Resistance” in collaboration with Joe Hogan (Biostatistics), Rami Kantor (Medicine), and Anubhav Tripathi (Engineering).

A team of researchers led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, including members of William Fairbrother’s lab at Brown, has won the national CLARITY genomics contest, organizers announced in San Francisco Nov. 7.

David Rand along with fellow professors Barry Connors and Dian Lipscombe have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.