News Archive

June 2, 2022

Bruins-in-Genomics: Evaluation of the impact of a UCLA undergraduate summer program in computational biology on participating students

May 19, 2022

New Training Grant in Data Science-Precision Health. Congratulations to Bogdan Pasaniuc and Alex Bui!

March 21, 2022

Jessica Li lab: Reducing false positives in differential analyses of large RNA sequencing data sets

October 25, 2021

Four faculty searches relevant to QCBio

October 24, 2021

From a recent QCBio graduate: Fay Lin – GEN Biotechnology: Call for papers

October 14, 2021

QCB/MIMG Faculty Position for a Quantitative Virologist

September 28, 2021

QCBio Fall 2021 Newsletter

September 10, 2021

QCB faculty enable huge stem cell research grant

June 24, 2021

Hoffmann lab reveals epigenomic mechanism for training innate immunity

May 17, 2021

Bioinformatics PhD student Leah Briscoe is a Grad Slam winner!

May 12, 2021

Hoffmann lab deciphers the language of immune sentinel cells

April 8, 2021

QCB Undergraduate Researcher wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship!

March 25, 2021

Professor and Data Scientist Xia Yang finds patterns that can improve our health

March 24, 2021

QCBio Spring 2021 Newsletter

February 17, 2021

Harold Pimentel is awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowship

February 3, 2021

Collaboratory Fellow Don Vaughn co-authors Time magazine article

January 21, 2021

New collaborative grant with the School of Dentistry to expand B.I.G. Summer

November 3, 2020

New QCBio YouTube Channel

October 27, 2020

QCBio researchers study genetics’ role in COVID-19 susceptibility, severity

October 14, 2020

Open Rank Faculty Position announced: Mentor Professor in Computational Biology

October 13, 2020

QCBio Newsletter 2020

October 1, 2020

UCLA researchers’ efforts to combat melanoma gets $13M boost from NIH

September 19, 2020

UCLA faculty drawing attention to systemic racism in higher education

September 19, 2020

Biomathematician Van Savage and sleep researcher Gina Poe discover purpose of sleep shifts during “terrible twos”

August 20, 2020

B.I.G. Summer 2020: 74 talks & abstracts are now posted on the QCBio website

March 26, 2020

Lloyd-Smith lab addresses key questions re Covid-19 pandemic

November 20, 2019

QCB Faculty Pellegrini, Horvath, Suchard, among most highly cited researchers

November 20, 2019

Faculty Search for a Developmental Systems Biologist

July 9, 2019

Serghei Mangul Appointed as Assistant Professor at USC School of Pharmacy

April 19, 2019

Members of QCBio team propose plan to use bioinformatics, open data to boost science in developing countries

April 1, 2019

Eleazar Eskin is named a 2019 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

April 1, 2019

Jasmine Zhou improves non-invasive cancer screening

December 3, 2018

Congratulations to Jessica Li for her NSF CAREER award!

November 16, 2018

UCLA Cell Study Reveals How Head Injuries Lead to Serious Brain Disease

November 7, 2018

NIH Grant Awarded to Jasmine Zhou to Establish Center for the Early Detection of Liver Cancer

August 27, 2018

QCB Collaboratory Partners with UCLA Extension

August 20, 2018

B.I.G. Summer 2018 hosts Poster & Award Session

June 19, 2018

Leonid Kruglyak,Gene Chaser

April 5, 2018

Big Summer Program Highlighted in Publication

February 16, 2018

Professor Jessica Li awarded a 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship.

December 22, 2017

New Open-Rank Faculty Search Announced for a Mathematical Biologist

November 10, 2017

New search announced for a Bioinformatics Research Faculty

October 25, 2017

International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease

August 25, 2017

new search for a Tenure Track Faculty in Quantitative Developmental Biology

August 20, 2017

new search for a Tenure Track Faculty in Quantitative Microbial Ecology

June 13, 2017

Prof. Sriram Sankararamen & Ameet Talwalker Receive NSF Grant

May 25, 2017

Rodriguez selected as a Beckman Young Investigator

April 14, 2017

Alex Bui envisions ‘big data’ biomedicine

April 12, 2017

Zhou lab’s new computer program detects cancer by blood sampling

April 5, 2017

Jose Rodriguez named 2017 Searle Scholar

March 18, 2017

Biologists advance toward preventing a ‘post-antibiotic era’

March 8, 2017

Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases

February 10, 2017

The New Biology

February 2, 2017

Grace Xiao awarded ENCODE project grant

December 9, 2016

New Joint QCB-EEB faculty search announced

December 6, 2016

QCBio Faculty cluster search announced

November 30, 2016

Savage Lab on the cover of PLOS Computational Biology

November 17, 2016

Childhood infections provide lifelong protection against flu viruses that come from animals

November 14, 2016

BIG Summer Students Win Poster Awards

October 17, 2016

“Steve Horvath’s epigenetic clock in the news”

October 9, 2016

Leonid Kruglyak wins the Curt Stern Award for Outstanding Achievement in Human Genetics

September 29, 2016

A Fat That Saves You From Sugar

September 29, 2016

Epigenetic clock predicts life expectancy

September 21, 2016

Sriram Kosuri receives NSF award to crack the olfactory code

September 10, 2016

Pellegrini lab identifies microbiome as determinant of age-related diseases.

August 14, 2016

Todd Yeates wins the DeLano Award in Computational Biosciences

August 5, 2016

Summer Program Shapes Future Leaders in Biosciences

July 21, 2016

Three-drug combinations could help counter antibiotic resistance, UCLA biologists report

July 1, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Xia Yang for promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!

June 9, 2016

“Using big data to give cancer patients better survival estimates.”

May 19, 2016

Leonid Kruglyak to become Chair of Human Genetics

April 22, 2016

QCBio’s Xia Yang laboratory in the news

March 30, 2016

UCOP HBCU partnership

March 11, 2016

BIG Summer in partnership with HBCUs

March 1, 2016

Congratulations to Joe DiStefano for being awarded the cover of Thyroid for a math model!

February 24, 2016

Daniel Geschwind to head all precision medicine efforts in health system, medical school

February 18, 2016

Leonid Kruglyak honored with 2016 Novitski prize

December 16, 2015

UCLA press release about the launch of QCB.

December 16, 2015

Six new QCB faculty positions announced.

November 21, 2015

Dean Sork’s Announcement of the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences (QCBio).

October 9, 2015

UCLA received $11 million NIH grant to lead Big Data

May 1, 2015

QCB faculty receive a T32 PhD Training Grant from NIH’s Big Data Initiative

April 22, 2015

Collaboratory fellows publish opinion piece about graduate training.

April 13, 2015

QCB Member Sri Kosuri has been named a Searle Scholar.

April 2, 2015

QCB Member Xia Yang is awarded Life Sciences Excellence for Outstanding Research Publication.